On top of chanting "f@ck Antifa!" outside Gracie Mansion (the residence of New York's City mayor), counter-protestors planted noisemakers that blared sirens. What a racket.

A Proud Boys member was filmed arguing with a counter-demonstrator. Warning – strong language

Perhaps turn down the volume on your device for this video, it's pretty loud 🤕

Urista by name, urista by nature...?

Brass Against lead singer Sophia Urista urinated on a fan at Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The band says they play music that "inspires the listener for social and personal change" 🥴

Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn – while speaking at Clay Clark's "Reawaken America Tour" on Saturday – proclaimed that the US should adopt a single religion: "If we are going to have one nation under God – which we must – we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God."

It's not clear which particular religion he's referring to 🧐

A plane heading for Welke Airport crashed on an island off the coast of Michigan. Four passengers died, only one survived - an 11-year-old girl. Her condition is currently unknown

⚡Yellen: US ready to consider lowering Trump's tariffs against China

🔎 Trump beats Biden in hypothetical Iowa 2024 matchup, poll shows

Yet another "F@ck Joe Biden" video, this time during an Indiana-Rutgers football game

⚡️FBI admits fake emails were sent from its servers, claims agency’s network was not hacked

💵 🗣 A majority of Americans (70%) have negatively assessed the state of the US economy, according to a survey by the Washington Post and ABC.

Some 48% believe that Biden is to blame for the increase. A reported 29% of respondents suggest that they are satisfied with the economic situation in the country.

This Country has perhaps never done to anyone what they have done to Steve Bannon and they are looking to do it to others, also. If they would be so tough with China, Russia, and the world, who no longer respects us, maybe our Country would not be failing at a level at which we have never seen before. We never talk about making our Country great, and it is now heading in an unthinkable direction with the Afghanistan withdrawal, open Borders, Inflation, Woke everything, and so much more. The USA is a radicalized mess! 

Irritation and dysfunction: Is Kamala Harris in need of more work to do as VP?

In interviews with multiple former and current aides to US VP Kamala Harris, administration officials and an adviser claimed that in the White House many are fuming that she's not being adequately prepared or positioned and just left sidelined, according to CNN.

Harris is reportedly struggling with a rocky relationship with some parts of the White House.

She also complained about not being a greater part of the president's approach to important decisions such as the Afghanistan withdrawal.

🗣 "It is natural that those of us who know her know how much more helpful she can be than she is currently being asked to be," said Eleni Kounalakis, the lieutenant governor of California. "That's where the frustration is coming from."

Looks like Biden isn't considering Kamala as the future of Democratic Party anymore.

🤔As the public learns more about the previously unreported US airstrikes in eastern Syria and more questions keep coming, experts say US silence was caused by the shame of causing so many civilian deaths.

🔸 Dr. Michele Groppi, the president of ITSS Verona, told Sputnik that it is likely that there was a combination of "overwhelming evidence" and "internal dissent" from personnel who wished to keep the armed forces accountable.

🔸 The report comes amid increased US military scrutiny by mainstream media outlets, following the "chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan" in August, noted Sami Hamdi, head of the International Interest, a political risk analysis group.

Groppi and Hamdi both suggested that the US most likely chose to bury the situation out of natural embarrassment for their error.

🧐 The Jan. 6 committee will "move quickly" to refer Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, for criminal contempt for not cooperating with its investigation, a committee member, Rep. Adam Schiff said.

In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Schiff spoke on the struggles the committee has faced, especially in regards to issued subpoenas against officials who took part in the Trump administration.

“I'm confident we'll move very quickly with respect to Mr. Meadows also, but we want to make sure that we have the strongest possible case to present to the Justice Department and for the Justice Department to present to a grand jury," Meadows remarked.

The January 6 committee appears to be using contempt of Congress charges only as a last resort.

🇨🇳✈️ A Chinese businesswoman earlier convicted of trespassing on Donald Trump's Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, was deported over the weekend and arrived in China on Sunday.

Yujing Zhang had finished her 8-month sentence and was transferred to immigration custody in December 2019, but was held at the detention center for three times as long as her prison term because of deportation delays related to the pandemic.

Zhang’ flew from China to Palm Beach to attend a party at Mar-a-Lago in March 2019, where she was arrested on a trespassing charge. Zhang was found guilty the following September by a Fort Lauderdale federal jury of the trespassing charge and lying to Secret Service agents about what she was doing on Trump's property.

⚡️ Astroworld death toll hits 10 after 9-year-old dies from injuries, Houston mayor confirms

🇨🇳 The upcoming meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping is a "holding action" to prevent either side from ramping up tensions, former diplomat and Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman told Sputnik.

"The Biden-Xi summit may pause the current deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing. It is unlikely to cure it," Freeman said.

This meeting, Freeman said, might usefully begin a discussion of measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear exchange, establish standards for crisis management.

❗️American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar after being sentenced to 11 years in jail last week, his employer says

❗️Danny Fenster’s employer says the journalist is already on a flight out of Myanmar