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.
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.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
The U.S.-Iran crisis has thrust foreign policy and national security—rarely decisive factors in elections—into the spotlight and, likely, onto the Democratic debate stage.
A roadside blast wounded five Italian military members Sunday in northern Iraq as they returned from a mission aimed at helping Iraqi troops combat the Islamic State group, Italian military officials said.