The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for two weeks at the start of 2024 for complications arising from surgery to ...

An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the government, and that ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily ... texted the secretary’s junior military assistant, who was in the hospital with the secretary at the time.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 's failure to inform Congress or ... In several instances, staff said Austin told them to keep his hospitalization quiet. But Austin said he did not. In one ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization scandal last year increased national security risks and should have been handled better, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd ... about his hospitalization. The Pentagon watchdog found that "Austin’s strong ...

Please pass to him that we can’t keep his hospitalization a secret forever. It’s kind of big deal for him to be in [the intensive care unit].” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he never ...

An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the government ...