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PORTLAND—Law enforcement agents shot and killed Michael Forest Reinoehl while arresting him on Thursday, September 3 at 7 p.m. in the 7600 block of 3rd Way Southeast in Tanglewilde. Reinoehl, 48, was suspected of shooting a right-wing activist Aaron J. Danielson, a participant in a pro-Trump caravan in Portland on August 29. The victim died on the scene.  An arrest...

CHICAGO—A man was shot and killed by officers from the Chicago Police Department after he allegedly lunged at officers with a knife. The incident occurred on Saturday, September 5 at around 1:40 a.m., as police officers were responding to a report of a person stabbed near 49th Street and Lavergne Avenue, the Chicago Sun Times first reported. According to...

UNITED STATES—George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire and prominent supporter of the American Democratic party, has financially backed his preferred candidates in district attorney races around the country. According to research by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Soros, whose net worth totals over $8 billion, has been actively funding district attorney candidates running races centered on the decriminalization and reformation of the...

SAN FRANCISCO—Mayor London Breed defended Speaker of House Nancy Pelocy about her controversial salon visit in her comment to a question by ABC7 News on Friday, September 4. London Breed went to Dolores Park and attended an event to hand out masks with a LGBTQ NPO The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on September 4. ABC News asked for her comment...

KENOSHA— A city meeting in Kenosha with Joe Biden provided scripted questions for attendees to ask, when Portia Bennet a Kenosha resident refused and went off script on Thursday, Sep. 3. Bennet, who is a mother of three confronted Biden about the riots taking place in her city. "I'm just going to be honest, Mr Biden. I was told to...

PORTLAND — As of September 3, three out of 11 members of the Portland police oversight board have resigned from their positions, all within a 24 hour span. Created in 2001, the Citizen Review Committee (CRC) is a voluntary advisory board to the Independent Police Review, a city agency which investigates complaints made against police officers but it cannot impose...

CHICAGO, IL—The Chicago Police Department released new video footage which depicts the suspects wanted in connection to the deadly shooting at a Chicago pancake house from Monday, August 31. The incident occurred at Lumes Pancake House in Morgan Park, in Chicago’s South Side. Authorities indicated that the victims were eating in an outdoor tent outside the restaurant, when a gunman...

PORTLAND, OR—On September 1, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced to the neighbors of his high-rise condominium by email that he will be moving out of the building in response to protests held outside the residence. According to Multnomah County property records, Wheeler bought the two-bedroom condo for $840,000 in 2017. In the email screenshot sent to The Oregonian, he wrote...

UNITED STATES—Washington and Lee University (WLU), a top-ranked private institution in Lexington, Virginia, is offering a course called “How to overthrow the state” for undergraduates this fall semester. According to course information on WLU’s website, the full title of the course is “Writing Seminar for First-Years: How to Overthrow the State." The 3-credit course will be taught by Robert M....

SAN FRANCISCO—The owner of the San Francisco hair salon that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited on August 31 has said the viral video has lead to her receiving death threats. On September 2, the salon owner, Erica Kious, appeared on Fox News' “The Tucker Carlson Show” for an interview, and told Carlson that the aftermath of the viral...