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11-11-2025 6:13 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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People protest outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut said she “found no credible evidence” that protests in the city grew out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall.
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Volunteers pack items for distribution at the Oregon Food Bank on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
757,000 Oregonians to lose food benefits
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SNAP provides food benefits to low-income families in US (Photo by Tiago Pereiga)
The lawsuit argues that U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Secretary, Brooke Rollins unlawfully halted the program despite having billions of dollars in contingency funds that Congress specifically approved for emergencies like the current federal government shutdown.
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Law enforcement officers talk with protesters outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
The trial in Portland began Wednesday, with a police commander describing on the witness stand how federal agents at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building repeatedly fired tear gas at nonviolent protesters.
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Judge Ann Aiken, United States District Court for the District of Oregon
The complaint, filed last month, says the department is attempting to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students."
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A Federal agent walks into an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
A judge in Portland will consider whether to let President Donald Trump deploy troops here. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday put her first ruling on hold, allowing Trump to take command of the 200 Oregon National Guard troops.
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Law enforcement officers watch from a ledge of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility as a protester stands outside in an inflatable frog costume on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume while protesting outside the ICE Building in Portland, when a federal officer unleashed a torrent of chemical spray directly into the costume's air vent.
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Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups speaks during an NBA basketball press conference, Friday, June 27, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Coach Chauncey Billups was charged Thursday with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million. Heat guard Terry Rozier was accused in a separate scheme of exploiting private information about players to win bets on NBA games.
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People walk on the East Front at the U.S. Capitol, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Merkley started speaking at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday evening and was still going more than 17 hours later, pausing only for occasional questions from other Democratic senators.
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Law enforcement officers watch from a ledge on the a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, at right, as people in costumes protest on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Another order prohibits Trump from sending any Guard troops to Oregon at all. The administration says it will now ask for that order to be dissolved.
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