national guard

Three-hundred troops were deployed into the prison system in late 2022 to address chronic staff shortages. Most of them are still there, leading some to question if they will ever leave.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that he plans to send over 1,100 National Guard soldiers and law enforcement officers to Texas to assist with border security between the United States and Mexico.

A Florida House subcommittee unanimously supported a bill (HB 723) that would provide $250 to “recruiting assistants” for each new member referred to the Florida National Guard and an additional $250 upon a recruit’s enlistment.

A legislative panel will consider a plan that would activate Florida National Guard members to help at prisons, facing staffing shortages.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Chris Graham was named director of the Florida State Guard, which is being reactivated after 75 years.

The Capitol Police is alert for a possible attack from militia members. There are currently 5,200 Guard members in the Capitol following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building.

The Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees will hear from top military officials on their role in the insurrection. This, as a House panel weighs new Capitol security spending.

"I think you can expect to see somewhere upwards of beyond 20,000 members of the National Guard that will be here in the footprint of the District of Columbia," D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said.

The FBI is warning of protests and potential violence in all 50 capitals ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. On Wednesday, President Trump urged that there be no violence of any kind.

Kenosha, Wis., police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back in August after Blake slowly walked away from officers and toward a parked vehicle.

Uniformed police are generally not allowed around polling places, and the Pentagon doesn't want to get involved. Still, they're getting ready if things get out of control.

David "Ya Ya" McAtee was killed in June as he stood in the doorway of the barbecue stand he owned in the Kentucky city's West End.