The US National Guard is usually deployed to fight natural disasters, but it can be used for much more than that. What are its powers and who commands it? DW provides an overview.

The Hunga Tonga volcano has erupted explosively again, causing widespread concern and triggering a tsunami across the Pacific ...

National Guard troops ordered in by President Trump began arriving on Sunday, when protests against a series of raids on ...

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to California following escalating violence among some anti-ICE protesters ...

Members of California’s National Guard were seen staging early Sunday at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that ...

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum "deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness" in California as ...

President Trump ordered National Guard troops to the area following clashes over immigration enforcement operations.

California National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles on Sunday morning after President Trump said he would be ...

Trump slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom, who previously called Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to California “deranged.” ...

LOS ANGELES ( Reuters) — Federal agents in Los Angeles faced off against demonstrators for a second day in a row on Saturday following immigration raids a day earlier, prompting a senior White House ...