The shriek of whistles and a cacophony of cars honking have taken on new meaning on the streets of major U.S. cities in recent months — a warning to all those in earshot that immigration enforcement ...

Last month, Austin police officer Jamie von Seltmann responded to a 911 call reporting that a woman had barricaded herself in a bathroom at a downtown church. When von Seltmann arrived, she found ...

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joey Frey, an evaluator for U.S. Northern Command's Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System fly-away kit team, places an Anvil drone interceptor on its launch platform during an ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On Halloween, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is deploying to Jamaica alongside Samaritan’s Purse after Hurricane Melissa struck as one of the strongest Category 5 storms in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Albany city officials highlighted the police department’s new unit, meant to connect the community with caseworkers and resources. The program pairs trained professionals with ...

The National Guard is building a “quick reaction force” (QRF) of some 23,500 troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by early next year, ...

Quick reaction units will become larger and receive more civil unrest training. The National Guard is planning to train as many as 500 troops per state to serve as part of a rapid-response force ...

The Pentagon is moving forward on orders from President Donald Trump to build a National Guard quick reaction force in each state for domestic use, though two US officials say the effort is largely ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The National Guard is planning to train hundreds of troops in each state to be part of a rapid-response force focused on civil disturbance missions by the start of next ...

The State Department is deploying emergency teams to the Caribbean to help in the response to Hurricane Melissa, which has battered Jamaica and nearby island nations. “In response to catastrophic ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

They are fighting against ICE raids — citizen "rapid responders" who show up when immigration agents are spotted trying to arrest migrants on Long Island. They try to get the immigrants’ names, find ...