The federal government on Tuesday asked an appeals court to put an emergency hold on a judge’s order that bars its officers ...

As Portland’s immigration protests have waned, criminal cases stemming from altercations outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility are wrapping up. And in at least one case, the ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has appealed a federal judge's ruling that limited the use of chemical munitions against protesters near an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, until the case is ...

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Ample evidence shows the existence of an unwritten policy” to encourage excessive, unpredictable and indiscriminate force to quash protesters’ rights, the judge found.

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Two federal judges in Oregon made separate rulings prohibiting federal agents from deploying chemical munitions and other projectiles near the Portland ICE building unless there is an imminent threat.

Where Washington, Idaho and Oregon meet, elk are straying from public to private lands, causing conflict and concern. If the Trump administration opens national forests further, it could get worse.

Immigration agents have admitted to using new surveillance apps as they scrambled to satisfy a lofty deportation quota set by Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. In a rare court testimony last December, ...

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The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year ...