39 h. ago National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year

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1 week ago Violent crime fell in 2025 for a third straight year in New Orleans, where Guard troops now patrol

New Orleans ended 2025 with its third year of declining violent crime rates even as armed National Guard troops patrolled the city's streets on the orders of President Donald Trump

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2 w. ago Trump withdraws National Guard from multiple cities but warns ‘we will come back’ if crime goes up

DONALD Trump has withdrawn National Guard troops from three major cities in shock New Year's Eve move. The President removed troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland on Wednesday, boasting about the achievements of the troops in reducing the crime rates in trio of Democratic cities. He did, however, claim their work had been impeded...

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2 w. ago Trump WITHDRAWS National Guard troops from three Democratic cities

The president touted the achievements of the troops in bringing down crime in the Democrat-run cities but claimed that their work had been stymied by local opposition.

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3 w. ago ‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump

Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rightsIn early October, Tracy Wright invited a group of other women in her social circle – all fellow knitters – to gather outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in their home town of Portland, Oregon. They were “armed with their weapons of mass construction”.Donald Trump had just ordered national guard troops deployed to the city, which he called “war ravaged” in order to protect ICE facilities he said were “under siege” by anti-fascists “and other domestic terrorists”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Suspect in national guard shooting faces new federal charges that allow death penalty discussions

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House is charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges over the ambush on November 26 that fatally wounded one of the West Virginia National Guard members and seriously injured the second

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3 w. ago Trump approves deployment of 350 national guard members to New Orleans

Critics say deployment is unwarranted and could cause fear in the city, which has seen a decrease in violent crime ratesThe Trump administration is deploying 350 national guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the new year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by border patrol is under way.Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Tuesday that guard members, as they have in other deployments in large cities, will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Parnell added that the national guard troops will be deployed through February. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US supreme court blocks Trump bid to deploy national guard to Chicago

In a 6-3 decision, the high court sided with a lower court ruling that blocked deployment of troops to the Illinois cityThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the US president’s efforts to expand the use of the military for domestic purposes in historic moves against a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions.The nation’s highest court denied the US justice department’s request to lift a judge’s order in October that has blocked the deployment of hundreds of national guard personnel in a legal challenge brought by Illinois state officials and local leaders, who had opposed any federalization of those troops to offer backup to immigration enforcement. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Supreme Court keeps Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now

The Supreme Court has refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown

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