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Overnight Defense: DC National Guard activates 250 troops ahead of Chauvin verdict | Planning update on Afghanistan withdrawal Ellen Mitchell © getty: National Guard vehicles drive into downtown behind police officers in riot gear as protests o... Overnight Defense: DC National Guard activates 250 troops ahead of Chauvin verdict | Planning update on Afghanistan withdrawal Happy Tuesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the news...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The Homeland Security intelligence branch faced scrutiny over the summer. • 12 min read US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol, resulting in deaths, injuries, arrests and vandalism.Shannon Stapleton/Reuters In the months leading up to Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration gutted a key federal agency responsible for funneling intelligence and threat assessments to law enforcement partners ...

FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot, senior officials say Ken Dilanian and Tom Winter and Jonathan Dienst and Julia Ainsley and Michael Kosnar and Andrew Blankstein © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — The FBI and the New York Police Department passed information to the Capitol Police about the possibility of violence during the Jan. 6 protests against certification of the presidential election, and the FBI even visited more than a dozen extremists already under investigation to urge them not to travel to Washington, senior law enforcemen...

Despite a heavy-handed military presence at earlier protests, there were no troops in evidence at the Capitol when it was overrun yesterday by pro-Trump rioters. Currently, 834 Guard troops are operational across DC, 741 of them guarding the Capitol and 93 manning traffic checkpoints. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 07, 2021 at 1:57 PM

Mixed reports about Vice President Pence’s role in deploying the National Guard to respond to the siege raised questions about whether the chain of command was broken Wednesday, though the Pentagon insists it never was. Meanwhile, Trump still has the authority to call up troops to quell civil unrest, in addition to nearly unchecked powers to launch a nuclear weapon, and tensions with global hot spots such as Iran could still flare up in the next two weeks. ADVERTISEMENT The national security concerns are contributing to calls for Trump’s removal from office, one way or the other, before P...