Washington, Nov. 26 -- US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth announced that President Donald Trump has directed the deployment of 500 additional National Guard troops to Washington, DC, following the shooting of two Guardsmen near the White House.

Hegseth said his team was first informed that "two National Guardsmen had been shot in Washington, DC, critically wounded." Calling the attack deliberate, he said, "The shooter shot in a cowardly, dastardly act targeting the best of America."

He described the injured Guardsmen as individuals who serve out of commitment to the country. "Heroes willing to serve in Washington, DC, serve for people they don't know, and they've never met, because they love their country and their capital and their c...