The news of the payment amount comes the same day the Senate advanced Hegseth’s nomination along a party-line vote.

Bowen Lee Lajesse was working at a massage therapy school when the assault occurred. The woman told investigators he assaulted her after she fell asleep on the massage table.

The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order ...