On April 11, 2025, a national security presidential memorandum directed the Defense Department to accept jurisdiction of ...

The administration had been planning for weeks to potentially use the Pentagon-controlled, multistate zone as a place to ...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a new executive order authorizing the U.S. military to take control of parts of a ...

President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal department heads Friday night instructing them to allow the military ...

The U.S. Department of Defense is now in charge of securing the country's southern border, having been granted new powers to ...

The transfer of that border zone to military control is an attempt by the Trump administration to get around a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from being used in domestic law enforcement on ...

WASHINGTON—President Trump authorized the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over a strip of public land at the border ... among other public lands. American-Indian reservations are exempt ...