President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he wants to designate antifa a major terrorist organization, escalating his administration’s crackdown on left-wing extremism.
Portland’s flagship luxury high-rise, the $600 million Ritz-Carlton tower, may soon change hands as its developers prepare to surrender the property to their lender. Struggling with the economic aftershocks of COVID-19 and years of downtown unrest, the 35-story tower—Block 216—has failed to reach profitability.
Authorities arrested more than 30 individuals Monday night after left-wing extremists, including Antifa members and a public defender, seized the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington to protest Israel and its military campaign against Hamas. Protesters, many masked and dressed in black, stormed the building, barricaded entrances, and set fires, prompting a multi-agency police operation to restore order.
Federal authorities have charged 40-year-old Jamison Wagner of Albuquerque, New Mexico, with arson in connection to two separate incidents: the firebombing of a Tesla dealership and an attack on the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters.
