Several Democrats in the city are wary about what the addition of National Guard might mean — some have invoked the decision to send in the National Guard in 1968, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel there. “That history matters — because what we are seeing now is not about justice, it’s about politics,” the Tennessee Senate minority leader, Raumesh Akbari, said in a statement.

Attack is latest in a series of aggressive moves against Venezuela by the Trump administration

The president claimed the boat was "transporting illegal narcotics" and was headed toward the United States.