Trump Agrees to Pause Tariffs on Mexico, Canada After They Pledge to Boost Border Enforcement The pauses provide a cool-down period after a tumultuous few days that put North America on the cusp of a trade war that...
Texas National Guard Can Now Arrest and Detain People Who Illegally Enter the US The new authority is a shift for the Guard and the military broadly, which has been limited to a supporting role for the...
With Plans in the Works and Troops on the Way, Military Assumes a Mostly Familiar Role on the Border Until now, the military has limited itself to a supporting role at the border: surveilling for illegal crossings by ground...
Here Are All the Units Now Deployed to the Border for Trump's Immigration Crackdown The bulk of deployed troops come from the Army, primarily military police, to enhance surveillance efforts and act as a...
Inside the Military's Scramble to Move Troops to the Mexico Border After the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 1,500 troops would be initially assigned to the border mission, what...
Trump Orders 1,500 Active-Duty Troops to Border Ahead of Pentagon Security Plan Deadline It was not immediately clear what units and service branches would be tapped for the deployment, but the announcement comes...
US Ambassador Says Mexico 'Closed the Doors' on Security Cooperation and Denies Its Violence Problem U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar had previously defended many of the Mexican government’s actions, but he now says former...
Trump Announces Tom Homan, Former Director of Immigration Enforcement, Will Serve as 'Border Czar' Tom Homan, the former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during President Donald Trump's first term, will...
National Guard Chief Warns of 'Unintended Consequences' of Transferring Air Guard Units to Space Force Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the outgoing chief of the National Guard Bureau, said a proposal to transfer certain Air National Guard...
'At What Cost': Guard Chief Argues Border Mission Is Getting in the Way of Warfighting "The reason the Guard exists is to fight and win our nation's wars, period," Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the National Guard's top...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
