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Former President Donald Trump has called on states to deploy National Guard troops to Texas to remove illegal immigrants across the border amid the state’s ongoing feud with the Biden administration over razor wire fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. “We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of […]

PORT CLINTON, Ohio—Twenty people were rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard’s Ninth District Great Lakes station said it received a report about 10:20 a.m. that the people were stuck on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island State Park near Port Clinton in […]

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order on Friday to deploy National Guard members to the southern border with Mexico to tackle border issues, citing the lack of action from the federal government. “Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe,” Ms. […]

South Korea’s defense ministry said on Monday that North Korea has begun rebuilding guard posts and deploying firearms along the border as tensions rise following the North’s recent spy satellite launch. The ministry said it detected movements indicating the reconstruction of North Korean guard posts on Nov. 24, just a day after Pyongyang vowed to […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, has pledged to send 275 National Guard troops to the southern border while blaming President Joe Biden’s policies for fanning the flames of the illegal immigration crisis. With the move, Ms. Ivey joins other Republican governors in dispatching their military forces to help stem the tidal wave of people […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced she’s calling in the National Guard to help with the illegal immigration crisis gripping the Big Apple. Ms. Hochul told a press conference on Sept. 25 in New York City that she had ordered 150 members of the National Guard to support case management operations meant to […]

Three days before Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving rejected Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s request for National Guard help because Mr. Irving said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would “never go for it,” Mr. Sund testified before a House subcommittee on Sept. 19. Mr. Sund’s revelation came during a 90-minute […]

BERLIN—A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as […]

A Texas National Guard member has been “separated” from his role after allegedly discharging his weapon, wounding a Mexican citizen in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, on Aug. 26, according to Mexico’s Foreign Ministry. The ministry had been “closely following” the shooting of the man, who suffered a leg wound after being shot while on Mexican territory just […]

MIAMI—A 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas before the U.S. Coast Guard spotted a flare he fired and rescued him, the Coast Guard said. The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Miami aircraft dropped food, water, and a radio to communicate with the man, […]

The Biden administration announced it will be strengthening U.S. ties with Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the broader Pacific by posting a Coast Guard vessel to the country in August. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made the announcement on July 27 during his visit to PNG, which is the first time a U.S. secretary of defense […]

St. LOUIS—A security guard for the St. Louis light rail system repeatedly punched in the head a man lying facedown on a busy platform, as nearby commuters recorded video and shouted for him to stop. The guard, who worked for a subcontractor, has since been “removed from duty,” said Kevin Scott, general manager of security […]

SAN DIEGO—Rescues crews have suspended their search for three people who were aboard a Learjet that plunged into the Pacific Ocean about a mile from a Navy-owned island off the coast of San Diego, U.S. officials said Thursday. The U.S. Coast Guard said its crews along with U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Customs and Border […]

ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO—A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway. The high seas face-off April 23 between the larger Chinese ship and the Philippine coast guard’s BRP Malapascua […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed an executive order to activate the National Guard in the state amid a major surge of illegal aliens arriving in the Florida Keys from places such as Cuba and other Caribbean countries. “As the negative impacts of [President Joe] Biden’s lawless immigration policies continue unabated, the burden of […]

A Kenyan security guard who reportedly fell while on duty at Qatar’s Lusail Stadium has died in hospital, his family and officials have confirmed to CNN. His employer had notified the migrant worker’s family on Saturday that 24-year-old John Njau Kibue had fallen from the 8th floor of the stadium while on duty, his sister […]

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard who sought a religious accommodation request (RAR) from the U.S. Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccine mandate and were denied are encouraged to consider joining a class action lawsuit filed by Thomas More Society. The Chicago-based nonprofit legal organization filed a class action lawsuit against the Coast Guard, Stone et […]