/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/RPX7FU2HURGXLDQWQYU5UUMLLU.jpg)
More than 2,400 California National Guard soldiers toting military assault rifles are on the streets and authorities say that has allowed police officers to crack down on the rampant vandalism and thievery that scarred the first several days of demonstrations.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/JKIBBZIRFVDA7NBMTNYMGFU4TY.jpg)
The policy shift also means that military families will no longer accompany service members in Qatar and Bahrain.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/ES5VDDN22NH7VKTVOWI7C7EWPI.JPG)
The White House may be changing course on the use of active duty troops to quell civil unrest.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/FTMJH7TNUBDHDKRJIRXJ6LVG5I.jpg)
Claiming he is backed by a “silent majority,” President Donald Trump turned the nation’s capital into a model for the overwhelming force he believes critical to stop sometimes-violent protests that have spread across the country in a time of racial unrest.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/FU6TQNBIANHETJV2VR3UNUFJSE.jpg)
Some governors are rejecting President Donald Trump’s request to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., for a massive militarized show of force in the nation’s capital after several days of unrest over the death of George Floyd.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/LWTNGLJQLNFBPOS5VQXNIQX5BA.jpg)
Officials in the nation’s capital pushed back Tuesday on an aggressive response by the federal government to demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, with the mayor flatly rejecting a Trump administration proposal for the federal government to take over its police force and one county in Virginia pulling its officers from Washington.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/Z7AECX44LJG45KOBB2XPY6YXEU.jpg)
Nearly 50 people were arrested over the weekend in Tennessee, while many businesses saw property damaged and public buildings vandalized across the state during peaceful protests that turned violent in response to the death of George Floyd.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/WVCYCBLZJJC6RDOZ2Y3OFQ5GOU.jpg)
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday endorsed Russia’s nuclear deterrent policy, which allows him to use atomic weapons in response to a conventional strike targeting the nation’s critical government and military infrastructure.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/J2VUOFSDQNFDLONOUJFC475Z5E.JPG)
“The mission is to separate the good protesters and then the rioters and looters. You kind of have to draw the line between which is which," said one private first-class.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/UAIEMPRBLFENHDAWB65RF7FHVY.jpg)
President Donald Trump’s warning that he would deploy the United States military to any state that refuses to take aggressive action against rioting rests on a longstanding presidential power that gives wide latitude to the White House, legal experts said Monday.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/JSWJO3D2A5GNJKV5AELCBD2ZA4.jpg)
Col.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff said Russia has sent a formal letter to NATO proposing to scale down each other’s military activities for the period of the coronavirus outbreak, but the alliance has stonewalled the offer.