WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joe Biden is expected to name retired four-star Army general Lloyd Austin as his choice to lead the Defense Department, four sources familiar with Biden's plans tell ABC ...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, to serve as secretary of the Department of Defense, Politico reported Monday. Austin would be the first African ...

WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defense ...

The first African American secretary of defense. The first African American to serve as vice chief of staff of the Army. The first African American to lead US Central Command. The first African ...

President-elect Joe Biden named former General Lloyd J. Austin as his nominee for secretary of defense on Wednesday. If confirmed, Austin would become the first Black person to lead the Pentagon. At a ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, facing reporter questions for the first time since his secret hospitalization, said his cancer diagnosis was a "gut punch" and that his first instinct was to keep it ...