I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem. As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as ...

Rick Rojas has reported extensively from Memphis — and eaten plenty of ribs there — as The Times’s bureau chief for the American South. Nov. 20, 2025 Memphis — one of the great Southern cities — ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee judge on Monday night blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crimefighting operation by President Donald Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee judge on Monday blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crime-fighting operation by President Donald Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the ...

FIRST ON FOX: Law enforcement officers have made more than 1,700 arrests in Memphis, Tennessee, in the one month since the Trump administration began surging resources to the notoriously crime-ridden ...

The city said that National Guard patrols would start on Friday, adding to an ongoing surge of federal forces in the city. By Emily Cochrane Tennessee National Guard troops will begin patrolling ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WSMV) - President Trump’s plan to fight crime in Memphis began quietly earlier this year in Nashville and FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to Tennessee elected officials ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, constituting his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using ...

Section 1. Background. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, is suffering from tremendous levels of violent crime that have overwhelmed its local government’s ability to respond effectively. This situation ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he's planning to send federal law enforcement and the National Guard into Memphis, Tennessee, to lower crime in the city following his surge into Washington, ...