PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — After meeting with Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Tuesday during a visit to Portland, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Fox News that if the mayor did not meet some of her demands for more security at the ICE facility “we were going to send four times the amount of federal officers” …
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, toured the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, getting a first-hand look at a small protest outside, which is entirely unlike the fiery “siege” Donald Trump claims is taking place there. Noem, whose department has produced increasingly belligerent social media content of federal officers conducting immigration raids and firing …
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands on the roof of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Tuesday and met with Gov. Tina Kotek in Portland, as tensions between …
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Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, late on Sunday, the state’s Republican party welcomed the planned deployment in celebratory posts on social media. “President Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon after a judge ruled that the Oregon National Guard could …
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Tear gas is deployed at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, Portland, Ore., Oct. 4, 2025. Eden McCall / OPB The next twist in the whipsawing drama over whether President Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland will center on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The result could come quickly, if a similar case that played …
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A molecular biologist who grew up in Portland is one of the three researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. Mary E. Brunkow graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in downtown Portland in 1979 and now lives and works in Seattle. “We are …
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U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut was nominated to the federal bench by President Donald Trump in 2018. She previously served as a Multnomah County Circuit Judge for nine years after six years as Oregon’s U.S. attorney, appointed then by former President George W. Bush.Oregonian File Photo The federal judge who has temporarily halted President Trump’s attempts to put National …
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FILE: Enforcement officers at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, Portland, Ore., Oct. 4, 2025. Eden McCall / OPB Portland’s top attorney lambasted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Monday, in a letter accusing the department of turning a blind eye to federal officers’ heavy-handed response to protests. “We appear to be witnessing the federal government engaging …
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Portland officials fired back at the Trump administration on Monday, accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of attempting to punish their political foes and help their allies by launching an investigation of Portland police’s arrest of a conservative journalist and influencer last week. Police arrested 27-year-old Nick Sortor of Washington, D.C. along with two other people on allegations of disorderly …
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Another shoutout of the late-night comedy variety has come for Portland. The city — which has garnered waves of national attention amid the Trump administration’s weeklong attempts to send National Guard troops to Portland — played a minor role this weekend in the first cold open of “Saturday Night Live” Season 51. The skit parodied President Donald Trump’s Sept. 30 …
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