Army sergeant shoots five soldiers at US military base
The Fort Stewart Army Base was locked down when the alleged shooter entered the Combat Team area.
All five soldiers have been sent to hospital in a stable condition.
Authorities have identified the individual as 28-year-old soldier Sergeant Quornelius Radford.
There is no longer an active threat to the community.
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Trump putting Washington police under federal control, deploying National Guard
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here US President Donald Trump says he's deploying the National Guard across Washington, DC , and taking over the city's police department in the hopes of reducing crime, even as the city's mayor has noted that crime is falling in the nation's capital. The Republican president, who said he was formally declaring a public safety emergency, compared crime in the American capital with that in other major cities, saying Washington performs poorly on safety relative to the capitals of Iraq, Brazil and Colombia, among others. Trump also said at his news briefing that his administration has started removing homeless encampments "from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks". US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) "We're getting rid of the slums, too," Trump said, adding that the US would not lose its cities and that Washington was just a start. Attorney General Pam Bondi will be taking over responsibility for Washington's metro police department, he said, while also complaining about potholes and graffiti in the city and calling them "embarrassing". For Trump, the effort to take over public safety in Washington reflects a next step in his law enforcement agenda after his aggressive push to stop illegal border crossings. But the move involves at least 500 federal law enforcement officials as well as the National Guard, raising fundamental questions about how an increasingly emboldened federal government will interact with its state and local counterparts. The president has used his social media and White House megaphones to message that his administration is tough on crime, yet his ability to shape policy might be limited outside of Washington, which has a unique status as a congressionally established federal district. Nor is it clear how his push would address the root causes of homelessness and crime. Trump said he is invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to deploy members of the National Guard. Protesters demonstrate against US President Donald Trump's planned use of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops in Washington, during a rally in front of the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) About 500 federal law enforcement officers are being tasked with deploying throughout the nation's capital as part of the Trump administration's effort to combat crime, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday (Early Tuesday AEST). More than 100 FBI agents and about 40 agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are among federal law enforcement personnel being assigned to patrols in Washington, the person briefed on the plans said. The Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Marshals Service are also contributing officers. The person was not authorised to publicly discuss personnel matters and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity. The Justice Department didn't immediately have a comment. US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, questioned the effectiveness of using the Guard to enforce city laws and said the federal government could be far more helpful by funding more prosecutors or filling the 15 vacancies on the DC Superior Court, some of which have been open for years. Bowser cannot activate the National Guard herself, but she can submit a request to the Pentagon. "I just think that's not the most efficient use of our Guard," she said on Sunday on MSNBC's The Weekend , acknowledging it is "the president's call about how to deploy the Guard". Bowser was making her first public comments since Trump started posting about crime in Washington last week. She noted that violent crime in Washington has decreased since a rise in 2023. Trump's weekend posts depicted the district as "one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World". For Bowser, "Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false". Mayor of the District of Columbia Muriel Bowser speaks as US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, left, listens during a news conference in Washington, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) Trump in a Sunday social media post had emphasised the removal of Washington's homeless population, though it was unclear where the thousands of people would go. "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY," Trump wrote on Sunday. "We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong." Last week, the Republican president directed federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in Washington for seven days, with the option "to extend as needed". On Friday night, federal agencies including the Secret Service, the FBI and the US Marshals Service assigned more than 120 officers and agents to assist in Washington. Trump said last week that he was considering ways for the federal government to seize control of Washington, asserting that crime was "ridiculous" and the city was "unsafe", after the recent assault of a high-profile member of the Department of Government Efficiency. The US Capitol building gives backdrop to a homeless man resting on a steam vent on the National Mall, December 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) Police statistics show homicides, robberies and burglaries are down this year when compared with this time in 2024. Overall, violent crime is down 26 per cent compared with this time a year ago. Trump offered no details in Truth Social posts over the weekend about possible new actions to address crime levels he argues are dangerous for citizens, tourists and workers alike. The White House declined to offer additional details about Monday's announcement. The police department and the mayor's office did not respond to questions about what Trump might do next. The president criticised the district as full of "tents, squalor, filth, and Crime", and he seems to have been set off by the attack on Edward Coristine, among the most visible figures of the bureaucracy-cutting effort known as DOGE. Police arrested two 15-year-olds in the attempted carjacking and said they were looking for others. US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi look on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) "This has to be the best run place in the country, not the worst run place in the country," Trump said Wednesday. He called Bowser "a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances". Trump has repeatedly suggested that the rule of Washington could be returned to federal authorities. 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Sky News AU
17 hours ago
- Sky News AU
American influencer blasted by furious Aussies after mocking Victoria's controversial machete disposal bins
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9 News
21 hours ago
- 9 News
Vance calls out Democrats over Epstein files, reignites push for transparency
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Vice President JD Vance pushed back against criticism of the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, accusing Democrats of political opportunism and failing to act when they held power in an interview released on Sunday. "President Trump has demanded full transparency from this. And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years," Vance told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures", defending the administration's approach to the unreleased documents. "I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden, so interested in the Epstein files. For four years Joe Biden, the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story," Vance added. Vice President JD Vance is pushing back against criticism of the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files (AP) "We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires," he claimed, adding that Democratic political leaders "went to Epstein Island all the time." Vance did not give more details or provide evidence of that allegation. Vance's comments come amid renewed public pressure to unseal documents related to the Epstein case after the Justice Department announced in a memo last month that there was no evidence the accused sex trafficker kept a "client list" or that he was murdered. After the Fox News interview aired, clips of Vance's remarks gained traction across social media, with users across the political spectrum posting: "Release the Epstein files!" Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a Victoria's Secret Angels event in 1997. (Getty) The vice president reiterated that full disclosure remains a goal of the administration. "The president has said very clearly, because we've had other meetings about that, is that he wants us to be fully transparent," Vance said. "So we're working to compile the thousands and thousands of documents that are out there for full transparency," he said. The Justice Department told two federal judges Friday it wants to release grand jury exhibits in Epstein case, in addition to transcripts, with "appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information." However, it's unclear how much information in the grand jury transcripts and evidence is already not in the public sphere. Vance also denied that the Epstein files were the subject of a meeting previously reported by CNN, held at the White House last week between Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, the vice president and others. "We did meet at the White House," Vance said. "We have a great FBI director and a great Department of Justice lead, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and we met to talk about how to ensure we have justice for the American people." "We actually didn't talk about the Epstein issue," Vance added. FBI Director Kash Patel (left) and US Vice President JD Vance. (Associated Press) Vance and his office denied on Wednesday that a meeting on Epstein was taking place, as CNN previously reported, but a source familiar with the logistics of the meeting said the attendees discussed a number of topics, including the Epstein case and potential next steps. Trump administration officials are weighing whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Blanche's recent conversation with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, CNN previously reported. Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee last week issued a dozen subpoenas to the Justice Department and high-profile Democratic and Republican figures for files and information related to Epstein. US POLITICS Jeffrey Epstein World JD Vance Donald Trump CONTACT US
