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PARIS (AFP) — French drivers seething over high fuel prices have vowed to snarl traffic across the country Saturday in a widely supported protest that could prove the trickiest so far for President Emmanuel Macron.

Police in D.C. are now investigating a left-wing mob protest that occured Wednesday evening at the home of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, citing vandalism of Carlson’s home and car.

Thousands of Google employees around the world joined in with the #GoogleWalkout protest against Google executives’ alleged protection of sexual harassers at the company.

Over 200 Google engineers are reportedly organizing a walkout in protest over alleged sexual harassment from a former company executive, who Google allegedly protected.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told protesters on Saturday that Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation “launched a movement” for progressive courts.

Hundreds of protesters who claim Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a sexual predator gathered at the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday chanting that they believe his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, who has alleged he groped her at a high school party decades ago.

Protesters gathered outside a Long Island, New York, public library Saturday to speak out against the library’s decision to host a Drag Queen Story Hour with children as young as four years old.

The mayor of a Louisiana city issued a memorandum on Wednesday demanding that the city’s recreation department ban purchases or deliveries of Nike products.

The grief in Brazil over the loss of the 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro to a fire Sunday night has yielded to outrage, as protesters demand the government better fund protection of national treasures and the administrators in charge of the museum decry negligence in remarks Tuesday.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that he and other Democrats participated in a conference call on how to disrupt the hearings.

“Well done, Colin, well done,” he wrote approvingly on Twitter on Monday evening.

A group of activists led by a Chicago minister plan to shut down the primary highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Labor Day.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Istanbul police on Saturday broke up a demonstration by Turkish mothers remembering the disappearance of relatives in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining over 20 people as participants marked the 700th such weekly protest.

Far-left protesters vastly outnumbered white nationalists at opposing rallies in Washington, DC, on Sunday, the anniversary of last year’s Charlottesville rally.

Members of the left-wing anarchist group known as “Antifa” launched fireworks and other objects at the police during a counter-protest to the “Unite the Right 2” protest taking place in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. 

Antifa reportedly clashed with U.S. Secret Service agents in front of the White House on Sunday, as far-left counter protesters demonstrate against white nationalists attending the ‘Unite the Right’ 2 in Washington, D.C.

The University of Virginia (UVA) Students United distributed a list of demands and accusations against the university and police as a demonstration billed as anti-white supremacy devolved into an anti-law enforcement, anarchist event on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Last year

Left-wing activists in California protested Republican Rep. Jeff Denham’s Q&A at a Modesto Latino Community Roundtable luncheon Tuesday.

Law enforcement and city officials are preparing for protesters and counter-protesters to descend on Washington, DC, this weekend.

President Donald Trump reacted to NFL players who continued to kneel on the field during the national anthem.

Progressive activists and lawyers are criticizing the Berkeley Police Department in California over its decision to publish the identities of the 20 Antifa protesters arrested on Sunday at an anti-Marxism rally in Berkeley, California.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement Monday condemning the communist government of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, demanding free and fair elections, and urging an end to state violence in the turbulent Central American country.

A Democratic Connecticut town official kneeled during the Pledge of Allegiance at a council meeting to protest President Trump, drawing outrage from town members and social media users across the country.

First daughter and senior advisor to the President Ivanka Trump is closing her namesake fashion brand, the brand’s President Abigail Klem told employees on Tuesday.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) issued a statement Saturday responding to the counter-protesters who burned an American flag outside her Los Angeles, California, office Thursday, saying they were advancing “their own agendas.”

Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, to protest President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

A woman was spotting climbing the base of the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday after at least six people protesting against ICE were arrested.

President Donald Trump lauded the work of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), pledging Tuesday evening in West Virginia that the U.S. will not abandon ICE like Democrats want to.

Authorities have arrested activists in Philadelphia calling for eliminating the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after protests outside an ICE building turned violent.

The University of Missouri is still facing enrollment and budgetary problems, including a $49 million budget shortfall, as a result of the 2015 social justice protests that caught national media attention.

Police in Portland, Oregon, revoked a permit for a pro-America march and declared the scene a riot when counter-protesters erupted in violence on Saturday.

At least four protesters were reported killed in Iran as regime forces opened fire on demonstrators rallying against a water shortage in the city of Khorramshahr.

Dozens of Hollywood stars will hit the streets from Los Angeles to Boston on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s illegal immigration enforcement.

Actress Susan Sarandon was arrested in Washington D.C. on Thursday during a mass protest against the Trump administration’s illegal immigration and border enforcement.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer scrambled to distance themselves from Maxine Waters’s call to “harass” opponents. These are tactics the left has championed — as long as they worked.

CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta was met with jeers ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally with South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday evening.