Lloyd Austin Wears Face Shield in Philippines, Angering Uninformed Critics U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's sarcastic remarks about Austin's "COVID theatre" lit up the internet.

On July 29, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shared a video of himself deplaning in the Philippines wearing a face mask and clear face shield. It was part of a trip to Southeast Asia that ...

The secretary of defense wore a face shield in the world's deadliest COVID-19 hot zone, and Tucker Carlson used it to insult his weight. The government of the Philippines has mandated face masks ...

In honor of tonight’s NBA Draft, Marco Rubio performed a remarkable dunk on himself on Thursday. The Florida Republican senator, who clearly has national ambitions, thought he had found an easy ...

Austin isn’t the first person to require mobile comms capabilities while at Walter Reed. Then- President Donald Trump spent time there during a Covid outbreak in October 2020.

He took the helm of the Pentagon at the height of COVID-19 and just weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters.His early months saw the department working ...

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased unnecessarily” the risks to US national security, the Pentagon’s ...