PORTLAND, Ore. — There is a rhetorical battle raging here in this heavily Democratic city, known for its delicious coffee, plethora of fancy restaurants, bespoke doughnuts and also for its small faction of black-clad activists. It started Saturday when President Trump suddenly announced that he was sending the National Guard to “war-ravaged” Portland — where a small group of demonstrators have been …
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Donald Trump once again shared misinformation about Portland, Oregon, on social media on Wednesday, when he announced that the national guard troops he called up in response to a small protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) office in the otherwise tranquil city are “now in place” and have begun restoring “LAW AND ORDER”. However, Portland’s NBC News affiliate …
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The memo states that parks that collect entrance fees will be staying open to do what they can to collect those fees and use them to run the park during the shutdown, Chakrin explained. Those that don’t collect fees may be able to pull from those same pots of cash to keep extremely limited services going. While peak summer tourism …
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Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, DC, August 26, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities that it says are crime-ridden. The announcements have led …
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National Guard soldiers from Southern Oregon participate in weapons qualifications practice and testing at the Umatilla Army Depot in Hermiston, Oregon, November 5, 2016. The head of the Oregon National Guard sent a letter to all troops Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, ahead of the troop deployment to Portland. Beth Nakamura/Staff Beth Nakamura/Staff LC-LC- The head of Oregon’s Military Department urged …
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SUPPORTING AMERICA’S LUMBER INDUSTRY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation invoking Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Act) to impose tariffs on imports of timber, lumber, and their derivative products (wood products) to bolster American industry and protect national security. The Proclamation imposes a 10% global tariff on imports of softwood lumber. The Proclamation imposes …
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The National Guard deployment to Portland has been delayed beyond the guard’s standard timeline as the Oregon Military Department works to prepare the 200 soldiers who have volunteered, at a cost to the federal government of at least $3.8 million. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth moved Sunday to federalize Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. The process to …
Read More »NEW ORLEANS — Someone check the temperature, because this season is heating up. In the past couple of weeks since the last National Coaches’ Poll, we’ve had meets from Tallahassee, Florida, to Columbia, Missouri, and everywhere in between. That meet in CoMo was the biggest of the bunch, as multitudes of ranked teams got a preview of the course that …
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