After an uproar on social media over photos of Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois appearing to be overweight, some of them have been sent back home.

What will Texas National Guard troops do in Chicago? Who's paying their salaries? What's behind the legal dispute over the deployment? We answer your questions.

On Thursday, a federal judge ruled to temporarily block the deployment of troops to Illinois. The ruling reads that no National Guard members may be deployed to the state for the next 14 days. The restraining order, effective in the ruling, will expire on Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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Social media users appear to have bullied Texas into pulling some members of the Texas National Guard deployed to aid Trump’s Chicago crackdown.

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

Lone Star State Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered resources to the state capital ahead of what he called "an Antifa-linked protest."

The Texas National Guard removed seven soldiers from Illinois amid questions about their physical fitness. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called it a return to “standards.”

Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the deployment of personnel and tactical assets from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas National Guard to Austin in anticipation of what he says is a planned "antifa-linked demonstration.

A photo of chunky Texas National Guard troops in Chicago went viral, and 7 were sent home. But there's nothing soft about Guard fitness standards.