WASHINGTON – Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who served in the final two years of the Obama administration, died Monday, according to a statement from his family.

Following his term as secretary, Carter left Washington D.C. for Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. “Ash was the best-prepared secretary of defense in ...

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who served in the post under former President Obama, has died at 68, his family announced Tuesday. Carter is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and his children ...

Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on ...

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68. Carter died Monday evening after suffering a ...

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter died Monday evening after a heart attack, according to a family statement. He was 68. Carter, a native of Philadelphia, served in the top Defense Department ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68.

Ash Carter dies: Defense secretary under Obama opened combat jobs to women In December 2015, after three years of study and debate, Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women.

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter is interviewed in his Pentagon office pn Jan. 18, 2017. President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials paid tribute to Ash Carter, the late ...

Ash Carter, who served as a U.S. defense secretary during the Obama administration, died late on Monday at the age of 68 after a sudden cardiac event, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.