Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter died Monday evening after a "sudden cardiac event," his family said. He was 68. He was defense secretary in the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017.

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Robert Gates, the secretary of defense under former President Barack Obama, criticized the mishandling of classified materials by ex-government officials, after various sets of documents were ...

Obama said in a statement Tuesday that he was “proud” to appoint Carter as Defense secretary in 2014, calling him “a steadfast defender of our men and women in uniform.” ...

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary, has warned that America's armed forces are ill-equipped for the "very real prospect of war between nuclear-armed great powers." Gates, who served under ...

Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter dies at 68 00:33. Washington — Ashton Carter, who served as the secretary of defense under former President Barack Obama, died Monday after suffering a ...

Ashton Carter, who served as President Barack Obama’s final defense secretary, has died, his family said. He was 68. Carter, who led the Defense Department from February 2015 to January 2017 ...

Ashton Carter, defense secretary under Obama, has died. He served as secretary of defense under former President Barack Obama from February 2015 to January 2017. 24/7 Live Fresno County North ...