It was the second time this week government lawyers had to come clean in court over President Donald Trump’s designs on Portland.

Portland police commander testifies that Trump's federal forces escalated protest violence at ICE facility, contradicting administration claims during bench trial.

New video surveillance shows the moments leading up to clashes between federal agents and protesters outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in recent months.

The cities with populations of 250,000 or more with the highest violent crime rates were, in order: Memphis, Oakland, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Albuquerque and Minneapolis, according to Stateline’s analysis of FBI data.

The federal trial in Portland over President Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to the city continued Thursday, two days after a majority of the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to reconsider an earlier decision by the court to allow the deployment.