According to a lawsuit filed against the city of Portland in 2016, the co-founder of Portland's Resistance, Kat Stevens, police officers responding to a protest against the inauguration of then-president Donald Trump "twisted" her head and "repeatedly struck" the side of her face and neck, "intentionally inflicting pain" while they held her down on the ground.

"This continued after an officer dragged me to an alcove, twisting my body and causing internal bruising and spraining my elbow," Stevens said in an account of the incident shared by the ACLU. "As an officer kneeled on my back, the other officers continued to press his fingers deep into my face and neck. My neck was twisted by police in unnatural ways for absolutely no reason."

Internet observers noticed something odd when Donald Trump Jr. attempted to play into the "culture war" over a publisher's decision not to republish six Dr. Seuss' books that with imagery without any context in them.

"These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement agreeing with the decision.

How about this for bargain-hunting? A small bowl bought for $35 in a yard sale in the US turned out to be a rare 15th century Chinese artifact possibly worth $500,000.

The porcelain bowl -- with delicate floral motifs -- was acquired by a buyer, whose identity is being kept secret, in the northeastern state of Connecticut.