Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in Portland
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A judge gave Trump's administration two days to respond to Illinois's legal challenge of the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, even as U.S. lawyers said the troops were on the way from Texas.
A Fresno County-based member of the California Army National Guard died in a non-duty-related car crash over the weekend, officials said. The man, identified as David Solomon, was a solider with the guard’s joint task force with Cal Fire, Carl Trujillo, a spokesperson for the California Military Department, told SFGATE.
Thousands of National Guard service members on active duty in the U.S. and worldwide are not being paid during the government shutdown.