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American protests: Demonstrations, violent riots expected to continue throughout the country

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News Tensions have heightened since federal officials were sent to quell riots in Portland, Oregon. Several cities across America are bracing for more demonstrations and violent rioting this weekend after another night of lawlessness and unrest boiled over into the early hours of Sunday morning, as Antifa and militia groups prepare for further battle […]

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More than 2,000 Portland demonstrators take to street for 57th night in a row, clash with feds

By Stephanie Pagones | Fox News Police say crowd threw Molotov cocktails, lit fires in a park and in trash cans. More than 2,000 people flooded downtown Portland overnight during the 57th day of protests in Oregon’s largest city, where President Trump has deployed federal agents despite the city’s outspoken opposition to the move. Just hours after a federal judge blocked U.S. agents from arresting or using […]

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U.S. officials defend Portland crackdown: ‘We’re not going to apologize’

By Reuters WASHINGTON/PORTLAND (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security officials said on Monday they had no intention of pulling back in Portland, Oregon, after a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests that included the use of unmarked cars and unidentified officers in camouflage. Weeks of protests in Portland over police brutality and systemic racism intensified as federal […]

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Heat wave swelters Plains to East Coast, severe weather risk across northern Plains

By Janice Dean, Travis Fedschun | Fox News Heat alerts stretch from North Carolina into New England. Another day of sweltering heat is on tap for millions of Americans along the East Coast on Monday, as the threat of strong storms is possible across the nation’s midsection. From the Central U.S. all the way to the East Coast, summertime heat combined with the humidity will bring the “feels […]

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US attorney calls for probe into federal crackdown on Portland riots; DHS chief promises ‘we will never surrender’

By Adam Shaw | Fox News The U.S. Attorney for Oregon on Friday called for an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s conduct in cracking down on the riots that have plagued the city of Portland for weeks — just as DHS chief Chad Wolf said his agency would ‘never surrender” to extremists. Attorney Billy Williams requested the investigation by the DHS […]

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DHS accuses mayor, officials of enabling ‘mob,’ posts timeline of damage by ‘violent anarchists’

By Adam Shaw | Fox News Local businesses have reported $23 million in losses. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday accused Portland politicians of enabling the “mob” of protesters who have besieged the city for more than six weeks — and posted a lengthy timeline of the damage caused by “violent anarchists.” “The city of Portland has been under […]

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Portland protesters create own ‘autonomous zone’ by pitching tents, rebuilding barricades removed by police

By Danielle Wallace | Fox News Demonstrators engaged ‘in an attempt to disrupt officers as they walked in from the end of their shift’. Portland protesters early Wednesday began to set up tents in the park near the federal courthouse and have barricaded streets to create their own autonomous zone, likened to the since disbanded Capitol Hill Occupied Protest in Seattle. Demonstrators […]

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Portland’s unrest continues for six straight weeks with no apparent end in sight

By Danielle Wallace | Fox News Portland has been more than $23 million in losses due to looting and rioting. The death of George Floyd triggered a wave of protests and violent mayhem across the country as demonstrators demanded justice and a reckoning against racial injustice and police brutality. In Portland, Oregon’s largest city, those demonstrations have raged for six weeks straight, […]

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Kellyanne Conway says US should prioritize schools over bars in coronavirus plans

By Tyler Olson | Fox News ‘We need to have priorities in our states’ Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, seemed to back states that are rolling back their coronavirus reopenings as cases surge –­ in some places threatening hospital capacity –­ and supported general safety measures, like masks, advocated by public health experts. The comments from Conway, one of President […]

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China’s assault on Texas – this project threatens US national security

By Daniel Hoffman | Fox News During testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray emphasized: “there is no country that poses a more severe counterintelligence threat right now than China.” Espionage has been a critical tool on which Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has relied to enforce Orwellian big brother control over China’s population and mount increasingly aggressive […]