By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Hundreds of additional National Guard troops are headed to Washington, D.C., from half a dozen Republican-led states, bolstering President Donald Trump's extraordinary move to flood the Democratic-led city with soldiers and federal agents in what he claims is an effort to fight violent crime.

Top officials in the Trump administration have visited National Guard troops in Washington, to support a deployment that's left parts of the US capital looking like occupied territory.

“D.C. is already safer than it was nine days ago, but we are going to make it safer to come. This is your city,” said Vance.

“The underlying goal is this plan is straightforward: Improve Republican political performance,” he told his colleagues, adding that the crux of the changes to the maps center on five districts that ...

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new wi...

"We're not criminals,” said Houston Rep. Penny Morales Shaw.