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Seat of Pulaski County, and capital and largest city of Arkansas, United States
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
Amazon has been trimming and reshaping its U.S. warehouse footprint: reporting and tracking firms show dozens — in some tallies nearly 100+ — of canceled, delayed or closed facilities since 2022 as th...
The historical record shows the federal government has used armed forces and federalized troops to enforce school desegregation, most famously in Little Rock in 1957 and in Alabama in the 1960s; those...
Juanita Broaddrick has long accused Bill Clinton of raping her in a Little Rock hotel room in April 1978; she first went public with that allegation in 1999 and has repeated it in many interviews and ...
Past U.S. presidents have invoked forms of martial authority and emergency powers in varied contexts—war, insurrection, labor unrest, civil-rights enforcement, and wartime national security—with mixed...
David Shuster is an American television journalist and talk host whose resume spans CNN (early career), Fox News (late 1990s–2002), MSNBC/NBC (anchor and substitute host), Current TV/Al Jazeera Americ...
The analyses collectively claim that the National Guard has been federally mobilized repeatedly for domestic crises and that those federalizations raise constitutional and state-sovereignty questions,...
The President can federalize state National Guard forces under several statutory and constitutional authorities without a governor’s consent, most prominently the Insurrection Act (sections 251–253) a...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
The Insurrection Act (now codified at 10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) is a statutory exception to Posse Comitatus that lets a president federalize the militia or use the armed forces domestically to suppress “i...
Multiple analyses in the provided materials conclude that a substantial list of U.S. cities reported , but the exact list varies sharply across sources. The Newsweek-derived list identifies 22 cities ...
The legal fight over whether a governor can refuse a federal order to mobilize the National Guard is active and unsettled: federal statutes give the president some unilateral authorities to federalize...
The best available mid‑2025 data show that overall homicides fell in the first half of 2025 versus the same period in 2024 across a set of 30 reporting cities, while a , with Little Rock reported as t...
Federal courts in the 20th century rarely enjoined presidential uses of the Insurrection Act, which was instead used to enforce federal desegregation orders and to quell major riots (e.g., Eisenhower ...
The National Guard has been used as the principal pathway for the federal government to put uniformed forces into U.S. cities by shifting Guard units from state control into federal service or by coor...
The Insurrection Act, enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times by about 15 presidents to authorize deployment of federal military forces on U.S. soil in extreme crises; its use ranges from e...
The President can federalize a state’s National Guard through a mix of constitutional authority and federal statutes—most prominently the Insurrection Act of 1807 and various provisions of Title 10 an...
Several reporting and research aggregates identify a handful of U.S. cities that saw the largest proportional drops in homicide from 2024 into 2025: Denver (about a 45% mid‑year decline), Chattanooga ...
The Clinton-era White House redesign was led publicly by decorator , who reworked the private quarters and Oval Office to reflect the Clintons’ taste; President Bill Clinton took an active, hands-on r...
The Clinton administration’s White House décor blended a conscious historicism with the Clintons’ personal tastes: overseen largely by First Lady Hillary Clinton reflected both aesthetic preference an...