What happened

National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., began carrying weapons Sunday, under orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Arming the Guard members, now numbering more than 2,200, was an escalation of President Donald Trump's federal takeover of law enforcement in the capital. Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard to Baltimore, after saying Friday his next targets were Chicago and then New York.

Who said what

The National Guard said in a statement that the troops from D.C. and six other states will carry their service weapons — M17 pistols and M4 carbine rifles — under rules that "allow use of force only as a last resort and solely in response to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm." According to a Pentagon official, "only troops on c

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