As most government activities remain shut down in Washington D.C. due to budget gridlock, the National Guard remains on patrol across the nation’s capital.

A federal government lawyer said the federalized 200 Oregon National Guard troops are "ready to go" as soon as the judge rules.

The Trump administration is preparing to deploy the National Guard to Portland while waiting for three different federal courts to make decisions over the previous deployment of troops to three Democrat-run cities.

The hearings are the latest in a head-spinning array of lawsuits and overlapping rulings prompted by Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities despite fierce resistance from mayors and governors.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officers fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had earlier been the site of protests against federal immigration agents, and hours after President Donald Trump called off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A former Rhode Island National Guard member will spend the rest of his life in prison for the gruesome killing of a Providence man in 2019. Troy Ingram, 27, was sentenced Friday to life in prison at the ACI for first-degree murder, plus three additional years for three counts of mutilation of human remains.

A National Guard aircraft crashed in Oklahoma City during a training mission, causing power outages and a grass fire. No injuries were reported.