Appeals court allows Trump’s national guard deployment in DC to continue

Order allows troops to remain for now, amid ramp-up after 26 November shooting of two guard members

A US appeals court on Thursday handed a victory to Donald Trump in his effort to keep national guard troops in Washington DC, pausing a lower court order that would have ended the deployment in the coming days.

In a written order, the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit lifted an injunction that said the troops needed to leave the nation's capital by 11 December.