Chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects.

Tear gas and pepper spray are designed to cause an immediate and intense reaction, but health experts have voiced that they can have lasting negative health effects. “These are chemical weapons that ...

Portlanders who live near the waterfront Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility allege the federal government is “knowingly putting them through hell” through frequent use of tear gas PORTLAND— ...

Residents seek to limit federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

In a dramatic legal challenge with serious public health and environmental implications, residents of Portland, Oregon have filed a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...

Tear gas and pepper spray are used around the world, either for self-defence or during mass protests to incapacitate the targets. Research shows the consequences go beyond red, teary eyes and coughing ...

(NewsNation) — Residents living in an affordable housing complex 100 feet from a Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office accuse the federal government of making their lives ...

“Think about eating the hottest pepper you can imagine, but then you’re feeling that in your lungs, in your stomach,” Dr. Jennifer Brown, an attorney and doctor in neuroscience, said, describing what ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Multiple residents of an affordable housing complex in Portland, Oregon, have bought gas masks to wear in their own homes, to protect themselves from tear gas fired by federal ...

This wasn’t the last time police used tear gas on protestors, with documents obtained through an access to information (ATI) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of 30 Oregon labor unions organized a march against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, near an ICE facility in ...