July 24, 2020 | 3:23pm | Updated July 24, 2020 | 3:31pm Enlarge Image A laser pointed at the face of a federal agent in Portland. Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP Three federal agents who were sent to Portland, Ore., to try to help quell the city’s violent protests were “likely left permanently blinded” from…
Washington (CNN)US federal agents and local law enforcement entered the Chinese consulate compound in Houston Friday afternoon following Tuesday's order to close the diplomatic facility after US offi…
Following the grim pattern of recent days, protests in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Ore., devolved into chaos early Friday after dozens of federal agents emerged from the building and confronted demonstrators, deploying tear gas and shooting rubber bullets.But in what protesters said was a new development, a larger contingent of federal…
Night upon night the chant goes up in front of Portland’s federal courthouse: “Whose streets?” The answer depends on the hour of the day. After Donald Trump sent federal agents to take control of a city he said had been abandoned by its mayor to anarchists and mob rule, the protesters still turning out in…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Even after tear gas choked downtown Portland in the early hours of Tuesday, Riots Ribs kept the food coming.A volunteer, who has been camped outside the Multnomah County Justice Center since demonstrations against police brutality began more than 50 days ago, slathered barbecue sauce on the meat cooking just a few yards…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…