One of the two West Virginia National Guard members who was wounded Wednesday in what authorities described as an ambush-style shooting in Washington, D.C., has died, President Trump said Thursday, and the second Guard member is “fighting for his life.” Mr. Trump told reporters Thursday evening that 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died in the…
A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump’s months-long deployment of thousands of National Guard forces to the streets of Washington, D.C., violates federal law. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb sided with D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, who sued the federal government over the Guard deployment, arguing it exceeded the president’s legal authority. But the…
Hundreds of National Guard troops that were dispatched to Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois, from California and Texas in response to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown will return to their home states, a Defense Department official confirmed to CBS News Saturday. Last month, about 200 federalized California National Guard soldiers were sent to…
President Trump’s administration on Friday appealed a ruling from a federal judge in Oregon that barred it from deploying the National Guard to Portland. The ruling last week from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration…
A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling “permanently” blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland. In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut wrote that “this Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ nor was the President ‘unable with…
Chicago — Two Illinois National Guard members told CBS News they would refuse to obey federal orders to deploy in Chicago as part of President Trump’s controversial immigration enforcement mission — a rare act of open defiance from within the military ranks. “It’s disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your…
New Orleans — National Guard troops are expected to arrive in the Big Easy before the end of November, Anne Kirkpatrick, the city’s police superintendent, told CBS News, adding that she had a “good conversation” with a National Guard major recently about the plans. “We are working together and planning their deployment,” Kirkpatrick told CBS…
A federal appeals court Saturday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protests at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that the Trump administration has vowed to crack down on. The court ruled, however, that the National Guard troops can remain under federal control. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a…
Portland, Oregon — Ongoing protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Portland, Oregon, have largely been contained to a single block in the downtown South Waterfront neighborhood, but the perception of Portland as unsafe has created ripple effects across this 135-square-mile city. On one particular October day, Mother’s Bistro and Bar…
CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live The state of Illinois and Chicago are suing the Trump administration over their plans to deploy the National Guard. “The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state…