The Trump administration has requested to deploy 20,000 additional National Guard troops, in support of President Donald Trump, Border Czar Tom Homan, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's intensified efforts to combat illegal immigration.

Hadi Matar, a Shiite Muslim who attempted to stab Salman Rushdie, a British-American novelist, to death on a New York lecture stage -- has been sentenced to a maximum term of 25 years in prison.