{"id":5950,"date":"2025-11-28T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:09:11","slug":"breaking-guard-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Guard under fire \u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Breaking: Guard under fire near the White House<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, chaos erupted in Washington, D.C., when \u201cat least two members of the United States National<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guard were shot just blocks from the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred near 17th and I Street NW,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a normally busy area, and emergency vehicles and a helicopter responded swiftly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say a suspect, described as a \u201cperson of interest,\u201d was taken into custody,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>though officials have been cautious, and \u201clocal authorities have declined to immediately confirm that National Guard members were among the wounded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details about motive, weapons, and the victims\u2019 conditions remain unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shooting raises serious concerns about security in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe presence of heavily armed National Guard soldiers was supposed to increase security \u2014 yet this incident exposes a vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public, authorities, and lawmakers are closely watching for updates on the Guard members\u2019 status, the suspect, and possible policy changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking: Guard under fire near the White House Today, chaos erupted in Washington, D.C., when \u201cat least two members of the United States National Guard were shot just blocks from the White House.\u201d The incident occurred near 17th and I Street NW, a normally busy area, and emergency vehicles and a helicopter responded swiftly. Authorities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}