President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing ...

The Pentagon carried the Department of War label until 1949, when it was rebranded amid post–World War II restructuring.

A majority of the National Guard troops deployed to D.C. as part of President Trump's crime crackdown will now carry M17 ...

US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Joint ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo late last week authorizing National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C., ...

In recent months, Trump has deployed the California and Washington, D.C. National Guards and is openly considering deploying them to Chicago.

The military bureaucracy has used the Department of Defense name for 76 years, but President Trump said he doesn't like the ...

The order directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "ensure state National Guards are similarly trained and ready to assist ...

Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders on August 25, including one to establish specialised units of the National ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Trump's law enforcement crackdown be armed, the Pentagon said Friday. The ...

The National Guard troops helping with duties in D.C., including traffic control, are now armed. NBC News reports that ...