Portland, Ore., police reportedly made 13 arrests on Saturday in connection with dueling demonstrations between far-right demonstrators and anti-fascist counter protesters.
Police said they seized weapons including shields, metal and wooden rods, knives, chemical sprays, and a stun gun from participants, who included anti-fascists and members of the far-right Proud Boys organization and numbered about 1,200 at the peak of the demonstrations, according to The Associated Press.
Police added that there were at least six minor injuries and that one person was transported to a hospital.
Read more at The Hill.
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Greenland is not for sale and the idea of selling it to the United States is absurd, Denmark’s prime minister said on Sunday after an economic adviser to President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. interest in buying the world’s largest island.
“Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told the newspaper Sermitsiaq during a visit to Greenland.
Trump confirmed to reporters on Sunday that he had recently discussed the possibility, though he said such a move was not an immediate priority.
“It is not No.1 on the burner; I can tell you that.”

President Trump said on Sunday he would keep Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate when he seeks re-election in November 2020.
“I’m very happy with Mike Pence,” Trump, who is expected to easily win the Republican nomination for a second term, told reporters before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey.
Read more at REUTERS.
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On Wednesday, Amazon announced that the retail giant was going to start donating unsold products. The news comes after a French TV documentary revealed Amazon destroyed 3 million unsold items in France last year.
The new program, called Fulfillment by Amazon Donations, will allow third-party sellers that store their inventory in Amazon warehouses to donate unsold products to charity. Beginning September 1, the donation program will become the default, though sellers can still opt out.
Amazon has partnered with Good360 in the United States to help it distribute the donated items. Good360 is an organization that partners with retailers and manufacturers to help distribute goods to charities based on need.

An explosion occurred Sunday night in a residential building on Bnei Brak’s Ba’al Hatanya Street. This is the second explosive device to detonate in Bnei Brak in the past month.
Police sappers who were called to a residential building on Beit Hatanya Street in Bnei Brak found that the explosion heard in the building was as a result of an improvised explosive device that exploded in the stairwell.
There were no casualties, but slight damage was caused to the structure.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Anthony Scaramucci says that the political left should view the president’s loyal supporters as members of a cult that need to be deprogrammed.
During an Fox News interview Sunday with Howard Kurtz, the one-time White House director of communications warned, “We recognize that the president is a clear and present danger to the American society—the American culture,”
“There are many people inside the White House and in the Cabinet. I would ask the left to… create an off-ramp for those people,” he added. “Because when you’re trying to deprogram people from a cult, one of the first things you have to do is allow them to change their mind.”
Read more at NEWSWEEK.
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President Trump said on Sunday he would likely wait until after Israel’s Sept. 17 elections to release a peace plan for the region that was designed by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is the main architect of a proposed $50 billion economic development plan for the Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon that is designed to create peace in the region.
Read more at REUTERS.
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Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota posted a cartoon depicting President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu silencing them. The artist of the cartoon has been accused of anti-Semitism in his previous work.
The cartoon, drawn by Carlos Latuff, depicts Netanyahu holding his hand over Tlaib’s mouth as Trump holds his hand over Omar’s. Both of them are shushing the congresswomen at the same time.
Back in 2006, Latuff finished second in the International Holocaust Cartoon Contest, which was run by the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri.
Read more at Washington Examiner.
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Iran appears to be preparing another satellite launch after twice failing this year to put one in orbit, despite U.S. accusations that the Islamic Republic’s program helps it develop ballistic missiles.
Satellite images of the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan province this month show increased activity at the site, as heightened tensions persist between Washington and Tehran over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
While Iran routinely only announces such launches after the fact, that activity coupled with an official saying a satellite would soon be handed over to the country’s Defense Ministry suggests the attempt will be coming soon.

A suspect taken into custody in relation to the abandoned rice cookers that caused a bomb scare in New York City has been charged, police said.
The 26-year-old has been charged with three counts of placing a false bomb for the scare that caused havoc on the New York City subway system during the Friday morning commute.
The bomb scare was set off Friday when a subway passenger approached two NYPD counterterrorism officers to alert them about suspicious packages at the Fulton Street subway station in lower Manhattan. The items turned out to be rice cookers.
Read more at ABC News.
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