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The National Guard's deployment in Washington, D.C. will end Sunday after troops were called to the Capitol following the Jan. 6 riot. More than 2,000 National Guard troops are set to return to their home bases this week after the Department of Defense did not request an extended stay for the force to guard the nation’s capital. Capt. Chelsi B. Johnson of the D.C. National Guard Public Affairs told WUSA 9 that operations will “return to normal.” The Capitol Police have not requested the Guard to stay past May 23. Once the mission concludes, D.C. National Guard will return to...

A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers. The Capitol Police department said senior officials were investigating. Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday. "I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene," a Capitol Police source familiar with the incident told the BBC. A former Navy reservist, Alexis was working as a technical contractor for the Navy and...

Five days after the transition to all-digital television, WUSA, the area's CBS affiliate (Channel 9), and WJLA, the ABC affiliate (Channel 7), have disappeared from screens around the region. The stations were the only two in the Washington area to move their digital signals from UHF to the VHF frequencies they once used for their analog broadcasts... LaRochelle received the stations perfectly before the digital transition on Friday, when all full-power stations permanently turned off their analog signals. But now, "they don't even register after a rescan," he said, although he is able to receive Baltimore's ABC channel... The sudden...

A dominant performance from Abby Wambach and the rampaging U.S. saw Norway fall 1 - 0 in USA 2003’s second quarter-final in Boston. Despite a missed Mia Hamm penalty in the second half, Wambach’s first-half header was all the U.S. needed to book a spot in the semi-final. Wambach owned the first half. Constantly forcing defenders into mistakes with her size and skill, her headed goal in minute 24 was only a matter of time in coming. The USA’s iconic Mia Hamm had a chance to ice the contest in the 67th minute, but lamely missed from the spot. In...

If all the people who showed up for the wake had actually bothered to attend even one game, there might still be a women's pro soccer league in America today. For all the good it did the WUSA, there were almost as many editorials lamenting its demise this week as spectators in some stadiums for the league's final regular-season games. "Critical mass will someday be reached when women athletes and their fans will demand, and sponsors will provide, another women's league. The shame is that that day is not here yet," opined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "It is highly regrettable," concurred...

Sep 16, 3:08 AM EDT Women's Soccer League Suspends Operations By BARRY WILNER AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- In the midst of preparing to defend their World Cup title, the U.S. women just got a doozy of a distraction. On Monday, the WUSA, which a dozen members of the current American team helped found, ceased operations. While they hold out hope of reviving the professional league sometime, the disappointment of its failure hit them hard just six days before they play Sweden in their World Cup opener. "Yeah, I wish we had the opportunity to not have this...

<p>The WUSA shut down operations five days before the Women's World Cup, saying it didn't have enough money to stay in business for a fourth season. The decision was made by the league's board of governors Monday at a meeting in New York. The Atlanta-based league planned an announcement later in the day, spokesman Dan Courtemanche said.</p>