Navy tradition and basic decency make clear the beleaguered defense secretary shouldn’t rename the ship. Hegseth is doing it anyway.

The directive could be expanded to include other military vessels named for prominent American civil rights figures, said people familiar with internal discussions.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretary of the Navy to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk, according to a defense official. The ship, which was launched in 2021 and named ...

Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered the U.S. Navy to change the name of an oiler ship named after Harvey Milk, who was a gay ...

In a display of infantile weakness, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the U.S. Navy to remove Harvey Milk's name from a naval ship.

The Navy is also reportedly considering renaming several other ships that are named after the civil rights leaders mentioned ...

Stripping the USNS Harvey Milk of its namesake — during Pride Month — is the Trump administration's way of sending a very ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth skipped a NATO summit on Ukraine. Instead Hegseth set about renaming a flotilla of U.S. Navy ships saluting Civil Rights leaders such as Harriet Tubman, Justice Thurgood ...

One vessel was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a former slave who aided the Union in the Civil War, and the other was restyled the USNS Marie Tharp in honor of a ground-breaking oceanographic ...

A Navy supply ship named ... originated with Hegseth, according to the defense official and reporting on the change. Several hours after the first reports of the plan to rename USNS Harvey Milk ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the ship that honors Harvey Milk, a former sailor who later became the first openly gay man elected to office in ...