On the southwest fringes of Chicago, Texas National Guard soldiers toting M4 rifles and dressed in fatigues set up camp for an indefinite period on the ground. President Donald Trump authorized the ...

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As blue cities push back on President Donald Trump's tactic of deploying the National Guard to fight crime, the Trump administration has floated the idea of using the Insurrection Act to justify ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States. Earlier this month, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act as a way to further deploy the military to U.S. cities ...

President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. The law – more ...

President Trump on Sunday called the Insurrection Act “the strongest power a president has” after saying earlier this month he was considering invoking it. “We want to have great, crime-free cities.