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More National Guard Soldiers Head to D.C. and Prepare to Carry Weapons

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

South Carolina, Ohio sending additional National Guard troops to DC as Trump escalates federal crackdown

South Carolina and Ohio say they will send a combined 350 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., supplementing a surge of ...

New Mexico’s governor called in the state’s National Guard to address crime issues. Here’s how they’re being used

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic ...

National Guard troops patrol D.C. streets, sweep homeless camps

Dressed in camouflage fatigues, National Guard troops patrolled areas of Washington Thursday, dispatched by President Donald ...

In Washington police takeover, federal agents and National Guard take on new tasks

Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers, or cyber criminals have fanned out across the ...

Despite Trump’s tough tone now, things were much worse in Washington when the National Guard was rolled out in 1968

It’s a noticeably different situation than the chaotic one that prompted the biggest military callup in Washington since the ...