Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced from the White House briefing room on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is deploying National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border immediately in conjunction with the border state governors.
President Donald Trump’s said on Tuesday that he would order National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border, hours after leading transition policy adviser Ken Blackwell told Fox Business Network that sending troops would show a coherent Trump policy of treating illegal immigration as a national security and homeland security issue, using all the levers of American foreign and domestic power enact his policy.
Recent terror attacks at celebratory events have law enforcement officials in major cities stepping up their counter-terrorism efforts in unprecedented ways.
Documentary filmmaker and left-wing activist Michael Moore urged Congress to pass the 28th Amendment Wednesday, which would repeal and replace the Second Amendment.
HOUSTON, Texas — A video showing the Texas National Guard rolling into hurricane-ravished Houston received more than a million views.
A National Guard soldier headed home from a deployment to Afghanistan says he was charged a hefty fee to check his military bag.
Protesters in Venezuela are deploying “poo-poo-tov cocktails” made of human feces in response to tear gas attacks by police.
Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco lawyer representing the UCB College Republicans, held a press conference Monday to discuss the case being brought against UC Berkeley and suggested deploying the National Guard to provide security if Berkeley’s mayor could not maintain control of the city.
A growing number of conservative commentators are calling on President Donald Trump to use the California National Guard to escort author Ann Coulter onto the University of California, Berkeley campus when she speaks next week.
The Associated Press claimed on Friday that the Trump Administration was considering using 100,000 national guard troops as immigration officers to round up illegal aliens. Betsy Woodruff details in her article for the Daily Beast that the AP was “absolutely incorrect.”
The White House is flatly denying media reports that the Trump Administration is considering using national guard troops as immigration officers to round up illegal aliens.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump is keeping a close eye on the Oroville Dam situation in California.
Governor Jerry Brown issued an emergency order Sunday evening to strengthen California’s response to a potential catastrophic collapse of the Oroville Dam’s auxiliary spillway, and to garner increased support from law enforcement to help with local evacuations.
The Oroville Dam crisis temporarily subsided Sunday night, as 188,000 residents downriver were evacuated, but the crisis will return with northern California expecting seven straight days of warm rain from another Pineapple Express beginning Wednesday evening.
The Washington Post wrote on Friday that President-elect Donald J. Trump “fired” the commanding General of the D.C. National Guard who is heading up the military presence during the coming inaugural event — in the middle of the oath of office ceremony. Yet a second story on Saturday did not contain the claim.
“I know how important these enlistment bonuses can be for soldiers and their families,” said Rep. Vern Buchanan (R.-FL), who served six years in the Air National Guard.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida’s first hurricane in 11 years has left the Big Bend region without power and cellular service in the aftermath of the category 1 storm.
BATON ROUGE, LA. – Crossover pop icon Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to help Louisiana flooding victims, who have been suffering from Hurricane Katrina-like flooding in the state’s capital of Baton Rouge and neighboring parishes.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Unprecedented flooding in Louisiana is bringing back all-too-painful memories for some after the country’s most destructive natural disaster ever, Hurricane Katrina.
The French government will today confirm the creating of a new civilian National Guard to help protect citizens and the nation from Islamist terror attacks.
A group that seeks to reunite lost Purple Hearts with service members or their descendants is embarking on an ambitious project: to return 100 such medals or certificates earned in World War I before the 100th anniversary next April of the United States’ entry into the conflict.
Contents: Putin decrees new Russian National Guard that can shoot or arrest citizens on sight; Russia’s National Guard thought to be preparation for September elections; ‘Panama Papers’ scandal may have triggered Putin’s National Guard announcement
Poland, ripped apart by Germany and Soviet Union in World War II, wants to implement a “46,000-strong” National Guard force due to the Ukraine crisis and possible Russian expansionism.
Two National Guard members pleaded guilty in a San Diego federal court on January 14 to illegally selling guns they believed were destined for Mexico—and thus likely the hands of violent drug cartels.
As of December 18, Ohio’s National Guard facilities are no longer gun-free.
The police department of Tallahassee, Florida responded to a bomb threat at the National Guard Armory on Tuesday morning. There is little public information, though there is a slight chance the threat is a hoax by someone seeking to take advantage of the apprehension over attacks on military personnel after the Chattanooga shootings.
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake wonders why millions in Department of Defense tax dollars have ended up in the pockets of the National Football League, ostensibly spent on sponsorship deals meant to “honor” military service members.
