Oregon has agreed to deploy state police to protect federal buildings in Portland amid violent racial justice protests, and once they have succeeded the additional federal forces deployed by Homeland Security will leave, the department announced Wednesday. Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced in a statement that he’d struck a deal with Gov. Kate Brown that…
The city of Portland, Ore. is fining the federal government $500 for every 15 minutes it maintains unpermitted fencing outside of the federal courthouse that has faced nightly attacks amid ongoing protests and rioting.City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said in a statement Tuesday that the fencing is obstructing the street outside of the courthouse. As of Monday, she said,…
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday will testify to Congress about the protests following George Floyd's death and denounce violent riots that have emerged across the country.In his opening statement released before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Barr says that Floyd's death at the hands of police in May "understandably jarred the whole…
A Homeland Security agent deployed to help quell the violence demonstrations in Portland says protesters shouted a racial epithet at a Black Federal Protective Service officer providing security at the courthouse, according to an account given to the Center for Immigration Studies. The agent isn’t named in the account, which was posted early Monday morning…
Gene Johnson, Associated Press Published 5:49 a.m. ET July 28, 2020 | Updated 6:13 a.m. ET July 28, 2020CLOSE Portland police declared the latest clashes a "riot" but protesters say it's been largely peaceful. USA TODAYSEATTLE — Days after a legal effort by the state of Oregon failed, protesters sued the Trump administration Monday to rein…
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…