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Masked-up federal agents confront the protesters in the driveway of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 28, 2025. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Several hundred people gathered outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland Sunday afternoon and into the evening to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to the city. …

Buried deep in Greenland’s ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ice drilled out of ice sheets and glaciers) and dated to around 12,800 years ago, has provided support for a hypothesis that the Earth was struck by an exotic …

After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials. Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be “accountable for its actions” amid the administration’s “cruel immigration crackdown”. The post on …

BROADVIEW — A day after the mayor of suburban Broadview sounded the alarm about ICE officials “making war” in her community, federal authorities appeared to double down Saturday, arresting at least one journalist and using chemical weapons on protesters and members of the press. In a Friday letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson asked that …

Officials on Saturday put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave, a day after federal immigration agents detained him because they said he was in the country illegally. The Des Moines school board voted unanimously to place Superintendent Ian Roberts on paid leave during a three-minute-long special meeting. The board said Roberts was not available to carry …

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave Saturday, a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally. The Des Moines school board voted unanimously to place Superintendent Ian Roberts on paid leave during a three-minute-long special meeting. The board said Roberts was …

President Donald Trump has made good on his promise to send federal troops to Portland. In an online post on Truth Social, which Trump founded, the president said he would provide “all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland.” The Saturday morning announcement was preceded Friday by unusual mass movements of federal agents at the U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility …

Broadview officials said Saturday that their police department was warned by federal agents there would be “a s— show” in the western suburb in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community.” Their comments came as, for a second day in a row, federal agents launched tear gas and other chemical irritants near protesters …

Stephany Gauffeny talks to NPR on Sept. 27 about her husband Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, a victim of the Sept. 24 shooting at an Dallas ICE facility. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption toggle caption Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR DALLAS – Stephany Gauffeny rubs her pregnant belly as she sits on a brown leather chair inside a law office. She’s tired and worried. Gauffeny can …

Des Moines Schools Superintendent Arrested By ICE Is Placed on Leave  The New York Times Ian Roberts: Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa detained by ICE, district says  CNN Des Moines school board votes to put Superintendent Ian Roberts on leave after ICE arrest  The Des Moines Register ICE arrests leader of Iowa’s largest school district, saying he was living and …