The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

President Trump ordered a federal takeover of Washington D.C. and said he'd like to expand it. That would butt against the law, a USI professor says.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviews Sen. Chris Van Hollen on “This Week" over President Trump deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C.

It was the first such action by the Guard since its deployment in Washington.

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced Saturday they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city.

The Post mapped locations of law enforcement throughout D.C. in the days since Trump’s announcement to deploy the Guard.