The presence of federal officers in Portland is actually making things much worse, the city’s police commander said.

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Over the weekend, protesters gathered in the buff to speak out against the Trump administration’s attempts to mobilize the National Guard. Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary ...

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Appeals court agrees with Trump on troops, ‘Ukraine could still win it,’ threat of China invading Taiwan dismissed.

On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court voted to hear the case of the Trump administration’s attempted deployment ...

Mayor Daniel Lurie said he told Trump “San Francisco is on the rise” and that federal agents would harm its recovery efforts.

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Crime crackdown: The president touted a federal court’s ruling that clears the way for his administration to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, saying demonstrations in the city are ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Illinois, expressing skepticism about the government's depiction of protests in a Chicago-area suburb.

A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration could send National Guard troops into Oregon against the state's wishes, pausing a lower court’s order that barred the deployment.