The National Guard is a reserve force of the U.S. military that is typically deployed by states in response to natural ...

The presence of National Guard troops in Washington, DC, is expected to expand Wednesday evening, according to a White House ...

The law lets Trump control the police department for a month, but how aggressive the federal presence will be and how it could play out remained open questions.

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to fight crime and homelessness in Washington, D.C., but few troops were seen on Aug. 13.

Mayor Muriel Bowser sought to reassure residents in the nation's capital, adding that the National Guard deployment was unnecessary.

Mayor Bowser disputes Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play.

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on ...