Tear gas and pepper spray are common tools in crowd control, but mounting evidence shows they can cause health problems that linger long after the initial burning and tears. The impacts vary and are ...

Local police and federal officers in Portland appear to have used expired munitions during the city’s nightly downtown protests, exposing protesters to a range of potentially dangerous and ...

Dozens of kids — many of them far from protest sites — have been harmed by tear gas and pepper spray deployed by federal ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge in Oregon on Tuesday temporarily restricted federal officers from using tear gas at protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, just days ...

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More than 20,000-acre wildfire burns south of Yakima; fire near Spokane threatens homes Washington state faces two fast-moving wildfires: the 20,000-acre Tule Road Fire near Yakima shows "extreme" ...