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 Trump administration plans to expand the National Guard’s presence in Washington in the coming days, with the governors of Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina authorizing the deployment of their states’ National Guard.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has slammed President Donald Trump’s team for ordering U.S. soldiers to lay out a red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin. A viral image shows uniformed soldiers working on their hands and knees on Friday,

The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials told CNN — a dramatic show of force that will give the president a broad range of military options should he want to target drug cartels.

Vice President JD Vance met with U.S. troops stationed at a key military installation for the U.S. Air Force in England that supports heavy bomber aircraft.

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that it had pushed Russian forces back by about 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) on part of the Sumy front in northern Ukraine.

In Washington on Wednesday night, the most visible sign of President Trump’s takeover of the local Police Department was a sobriety checkpoint operated by local and federal police agencies on a busy street near downtown, which drew a crowd of jeering protesters.

Vladimir Putin praised North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine as “heroic” in a letter to Kim Jong-un, North Korean state media reported Friday.