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is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth, an Army veteran and former Fox News correspondent, has spent the last several weeks meeting with Republican ...

Charlie Kirk, the founder of the grass-roots youth organization Turning Point USA, is also in regular contact with Mr.

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John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters last week ... Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, a survivor of sexual assault and a member of the Armed Services Committee, the panel that will examine his nomination.

Hegseth faced intense questioning from Democrats in his Armed Services Committee hearing ... had three audiences— the committee, the United States Senate, and the general American public ...

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger F. Wicker, Mississippi Republican, said after the exchange that Mr. Hegseth has “supervised far more people than the average United States senator.” ...