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.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday following a stay for treatment of an infection after earlier prostate cancer surgery.

Austin had been hospitalized since Jan. 1 after developing an infection following surgery for prostate cancer.

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year that it "increased unnecessarily" the risks to national security, even if ...

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.

The Pentagon confirmed Sunday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized ... Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks about Austin's illness or hospitalization until Dec. 4 because she was ...

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 ...

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. The ...

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 ...