Robert Gates. December 3, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - Despite the American military's successes in overtaking the Taliban in Afghanistan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ...

Robert Gates — the former U.S. Secretary of Defense — was in Lawrence Wednesday to speak at a conference examining the prospect of war with China, which he says is very preventable, by the way.

With questions swirling about the management of the Pentagon, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense will be delivering remarks on Wednesday in Lawrence. Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary ...

Watch Margaret Brennan's full interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on Sunday, May 18, 2025, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." ...

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.