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The nightly riots in Portland, Oregon, that began in late May continued on Monday night with police revealing the dangerous weapons used against city and state police officers. They also cited a mob making another attempt to burn down a station with police personnel inside.

The charred corpse of an as-yet unidentified man was found in the ashes of a pawn shop burned during the recent Minneapolis rioting.

“St. Joseph’s Church … was vandalized this week, as an unknown individual or individuals painted ‘satanic’ and ‘anarchist’ symbols on its doors,” reports the New Haven Register.

The French authorities have launched an arson investigation after a major fire engulfed the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes.

A young man has been convicted and sentenced to “protective supervision” after setting several fires that led to the destruction or damage of 21 vehicles.

The woman wanted for torching a Wendy’s in Atlanta where Rayshard Brooks was killed might have been romantically involved with him, according to multiple reports.

A recent report from the Philadelphia Inquirer outlines how the FBI used Instagram, an Etsy review, and LinkedIn to identify a rioter accused of arson.

Unidentified arsonists placed a large trash bin against a side door of the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rennes late last week and set the contents on fire, in an apparent attempt to torch the church.

Four homes in the Sungarden neighborhood of Citrus Heights in California were reportedly targeted early Saturday morning. Each of them was displaying Old Glory.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

All rioters, arsonists, and looters have been released from jail in St. Louis, Missouri, without facing charges thus far by city prosecutors.

Arsonists who set fires in New York City, New York, during multiple nights of riots will be instantly freed from jail if ever arrested thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) bail reform law.

A man is facing federal charges after he allegedly set fire to a Chicago Police Department car — all while wearing a Joker mask, which partially obscured his face.

Army Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) on Monday condemned the burning of a historic church in Washington, DC, as “truly sick, sad, and heartbreaking,” in a video statement in front of the church.

As violent protests sweep the nation following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Portland rioters have set fire to the Portland Police Department and the Justice Center.

Two men released from jail in California due to the coronavirus pandemic were re-arrested and accused of crimes shortly after being released, authorities said.

Police in Kyiv announced on Monday they have arrested a 27-year-old man for deliberately starting a huge fire in the Exclusion Zone around the decommissioned nuclear plant at Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986.

Arsonists set fire to the church of Saint-Apollinaire in eastern France this week, after which the parish priest declared, “This was the last thing we needed, given recent events.”

Destiny Waite allegedly set fire to her Hartford, Connecticut, apartment building on Monday using a “molotov cocktail” fueled by hand sanitizer.

The Associated Press reported Friday that “only” 24 people have been arrested for deliberately starting fires in New South Wales this season in an article weighing the relative impact of arson on the Australian bushfire crisis.

A new and unoccupied residential building in Hong Kong that was designated as a quarantine facility for people infected by the rapidly spreading Wuhan coronavirus was attacked by vandals with firebombs on Sunday, prompting the authorities to postpone plans to expand the quarantine operation.

The Phoenix Police Department is looking for an Arizona man who reportedly set five vehicles on fire in a parking lot, according to surveillance video of the incident.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed during the Democrat debate on Tuesday hosted by CNN that the massive bushfires in Australia were started by global warming.

A radical feminist group has claimed responsibility for recently vandalizing two churches in Germany and torching a pro-life journalist’s car.

A wooden monument mocking President Donald Trump in his wife’s homeland of Slovenia was set ablaze on Thursday, with an alleged arsonist reportedly starting the fire.

The blazes that continue to ravage swathes of Australia, described as “apocalyptic,” had reportedly killed a total of 25 people as of Tuesday, including 20 in the worst-affected area of New South Wales (NSW) where the still-burning fires have razed or damaged more than 2,000 homes.

The images are enough to melt the hardest hearts: Koalas and kangaroos trying to flee bushfires that have engulfed large parts of Australia.

Australian police investigating the bushfires have arrested more than 180 alleged arsonists since the start of 2019. But apparently they forgot to send the memo to Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, both of whom insisted in their Golden Globes acceptance speeches that the Australian bushfires were in fact caused by ‘climate change.’

Australian law enforcement has arrested over 180 people for arson in connection with the nation’s raging bushfires, as alarmists try to pin the blazes on “climate change.”

Twenty-four Australians in the state of New South Wales alone have been arrested since early November for intentionally setting bushfires as a record number of blazes continue to burn across the country.

Police in five Australian states have begun investigations into alleged arsonists responsible for helping fuel the deadly bushfires that have wracked the country this summer.

Employees at a record store in North Carolina say a mural of pop star Tina Turner has been defaced with a red swastika.

Four unidentified arsonists targeted the printing warehouse of the Epoch Times, a global newspaper that has consistently challenged the Chinese Communist Party, on Tuesday morning, setting fire to the warehouse just as staffers prepared to distribute the Tuesday edition of the newspaper.

A bearded man burned a Florida woman with gasoline, but the local newspaper mis-reported the attacker as a “woman.”

A suspect was caught using a flammable liquid to ignite a brush fire on Wednesday in Corona, California.

The FBI is offering a $15,000 reward for information on three separate arson attacks on El Paso, Texas, churches.