Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ contempt for his onetime boss Donald Trump is laid bare in a new book. Mattis tried to stay away from the White House as much as possible during his time serving ...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told House lawmakers on Thursday the Iran nuclear deal “needs to be fixed,” and he’s uncertain whether it could still be saved. Mattis had testified before that Iran was ...

White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley on Thursday doubled down on White House criticism of former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis, saying he had a “fundamental misunderstanding” of ...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that the country will face greater security risks and the military will have to rethink its strategy without a House budget proposal that includes full 2018 ...

Dozens of House Democrats on Friday warned Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that he should not comply with President Trump’s ban on transgender military service because it is an “unconstitutional ...

Richland’s retired four-star general and former secretary of defense has broken his recent silence on President Trump. On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — Jim Mattis doesn’t want to talk. But he did open his front door when I knocked. “Hi, I’m Jim,” he said. Mattis, the secretary of defense during the first two years of Donald Trump’s ...

A group of Democrats on the House and Senate armed services committees want to know who sat on the expert panel that helped draft Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ new transgender policy. The Pentagon ...

THE MATTIS TOUCH: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has a standard playbook whenever his boss drops a bombshell on him, whether it’s a surprise plan to boot transgender troops out of the ranks, stage a ...

Mattis warned the proposal would create a “narrower and even parochial approach” to space operations, in a letter Tuesday to Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, an Armed Services subcommittee chairman. “I do ...