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National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year. That’s according to a memo signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll this week and reviewed by The Associated Press. The memo says “the conditions of the mission” warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.” The extension comes after Trump said this month that for now he was dropping his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, which had provoked legal challenges.