💬 “President [Donald] Trump has asked me, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army, to the National Guard, to add 500 additional troops — National Guardsmen — to Washington, D.C.,” Hegseth said on Wednesday.

💬 “If you're a narco-terrorist who wants to bring drugs to the United States of America, we will find you, we will fix you, and we will finish you because we have all the rights in the world. We've got lots of attorneys and lots of intel analysts. We know exactly who we're targeting and why,” Hegseth said.

💬 “We have reviewed video from the area. It appears, like I said, to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard,” DC Metropolitan Police Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll said.

💬 “How many innocent people dying does it take to reform our broken system?” tech tycoon Elon Musk asked on X, following the attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC.

💬 “We have authorized the United States, for a limited period, to use restricted areas at the San Isidro Air Base and at Las Américas International Airport for the logistical operation of refueling aircraft, and transporting equipment and technical personnel,” Dominican President Luis Abinader announced, following his meeting with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

💬 The cable tells diplomats to “regularly engage host governments” to raise US concerns about “violent crimes associated with people of a migration background” and to report back on any policies that “unduly favor migrants at the expense of local populations.”

🔊 "Using our drones, Russian troops explored and destroyed thousands of enemy targets, including those critical to their combat capability," the Russian state tech corporation told Sputnik.