WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) - Former U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the nation’s first Black defense secretary, was honored Monday in his hometown of Thomasville with a street renaming.

Austin III served as the 28th U.S. Secretary of Defense from January 22, 2021, to January 20, 2025. He was the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of ...