Arizona governor sending National Guard troops to southern border 2 hours ago U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector Agent Fidel Cabrera leads a tour of one of four living areas inside Yuma Sector s Processing Facility during an open house on April 20, 2021. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP) PHOENIX Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he is sending 250 National Guard troops to the state’s southern border with Mexico amid the increased arrivals of migrants. The announcement came the day Customs and Border Protection held an open house at a new tent-like migrant processing center in the border community of Yuma. It is the first of two planned in Arizona to help agents process and temporarily shelter a growing number of asylum seekers arriving at the border. A similar structure is opening later this month in Tucson.
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Afghan withdrawal will make terrorism fight harder, says top US general in the Mideast 2 hours ago Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, U.S. Central Command commander, and Air Force Maj. Gen. Eric Hill, Special Operations Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve commander, discuss the efforts to destroy the remnants of Daesh in Syria July 22, 2019. (Spc. Alec Dionne/Army) WASHINGTON In a blunt assessment Tuesday, the top U.S. general for the Middle East told Congress it will be extremely difficult but not impossible for the U.S. to find, track and take out counterterrorism threats in Afghanistan once all American troops are withdrawn.
For soldier convicted of multiple rapes, Army will review 2017 decision not to prosecute him 2 hours ago Staff Sgt. Randall S. Hughes was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison following a series of rapes and assaults. (Army) Army officials say they will review the decision not to prosecute a soldier accused of rape in the winter of 2017, who three years later pleaded guilty to that same crime, as well as a separate rape in the months that followed and the sexual abuse of his child in 2020. Staff Sgt. Randall S. Hughes’ crimes, first reported by Army Times last week, ended only after his daughter came forward in the spring of 2020 with allegations that Hughes raped her while she was drugged with a sleeping medication, court documents stated.
‘I felt hate more than anything’: How an active-duty airman tried to start a civil war 2 hours ago In an eight-day span, Air Force Sgt. Steven Carillo allegedly killed a federal security officer and wounded his partner outside a U.S. courthouse and ambushed and killed a California sheriff’s deputy and injured four other officers, federal authorities say. But that expression of rage marked the culmination of a long slide into extremism. (Santa Cruz Sheriff s Office via AP)
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This story is part of a collaboration between It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.