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About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, President Donald Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian confrontations that can cross ethical and legal lines.

Muriel Bowser says president’s move to federalize city police force demonstrates why the District of Columbia needs statehood to secure its independence

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The presence of troops in the capital is expected to grow over the next week and the president is threatening to take similar tactics to other Democratic cities

President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits military involvement in domestic affairs

A general has testified that National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force against people protesting immigration raids

I'm sure everyone feels so safe.

ANALYSIS: Rules governing deployments of National Guard in states will restrict troops’ ability to conduct law enforcement in most jurisdictions, John Bowden writes

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Monday compared President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to tactics used by the Nazi Party in Germany during the 1930s

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining