A Department of Homeland Security agent stationed in Portland said that violent rioters continue to attack federal officers and buildings to “embarrass” the Trump administration and drive them away.
“As the night goes on, the rioters become so hateful it is surreal. Their voices hoarse, their sentences jumbled, they seem...
(Headline USA) Federal agents who have clashed with protesters in Portland, Oregon, will begin a “phased withdrawal” from the city, Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement the plan negotiated with Brown over the last 24 hours includes a “robust presence” of Oregon...
(Associated Press) Prosecutors charged two Madison women Wednesday with attacking a Wisconsin state senator during a chaotic night of violence outside the state Capitol last month.
Kerida O'Reilly, 33, and Samantha Hamer, 26, were each charged with one count of being a party to substantial battery, a felony punishable by up...
(Associated Press) More than 100 police agencies are withdrawing from agreements to send personnel to bolster security at next month's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, in part because they're concerned about a recent directive ordering police in the city to stop using tear gas to control crowds.
A citizen oversight commission...
(Headline USA) Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Tuesday she had received confirmation that U.S. agents had left the area after being sent to Seattle last week to protect federal buildings amid ongoing race riots.
Durkan, Gov. Jay Inslee and other local leaders said in a joint news release that the...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration has started talks with the Oregon governor's office and indicated that it would begin to draw down the presence of federal agents sent to quell two months of violent protests in Portland if the state stepped up its own enforcement.
An anonymous White House source...
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan claimed on Monday that the Trump administration had sent federal officers to several Democratic-run cities in order to stage a “dry run for martial law.”
“He’s clearly targeted cities ran by Democratic mayors. He’s said so himself,” Durkan told CNN.
“He’s using law enforcement as a political...
During an exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General William Barr revealed he had asked US Attorney John Bash of Texas to look into systemic unmasking abuse during the Obama era.
The news surprised even Jordan, a close ally of President Donald Trump...
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, may have delayed his committee Tuesday after a car accident immediately beforehand that totaled his car.
Unfortunately, Nadler walked away unscathed---unlike dozens of recent victims during violent race riots who have seen their health and financial livelihood destroyed.
After finally arriving at the hearing, the House Judiciary...
Nearly 20,000 fraudulent driver’s licenses have been seized by federal border protection authorities this year---and that’s just in Chicago.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Monday that agents at the International Mail Facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have confiscated 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses from Jan. 1 to...
(Headline USA) Federal officers will remain in Portland until attacks on the U.S. courthouse cease, a top official said Monday after a night of violence.
And more officers may soon be on the way.
"It is not a solution to tell federal officers to leave when there continues to be attacks...
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the ongoing violence in Portland wasn't real when asked about it over the weekend.
Nadler was approached by Austen Fletcher, a conservative producer who asked the Democratic congressman to disavow the rioting in Portland.
"I ran into Jerry Nadler in DC and asked him...