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SEATTLE — Protesters in Portland, Ore., swept through the city on Sunday night, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and damaging the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in a demonstration against colonization and the treatment of Native Americans. Protests around the country this year have mainly targeted statues featuring slave owners and …

Chronic and recurrent bacterial diseases are often resistant to treatment because of biofilms. Biofilms possess a matrix to create a fortress made up of protein and extracellular DNA contributed by the bacteria. These fortresses protect groups of bacteria from the immune system — and even from antibiotics. Common biofilm-related diseases include infections of the ear, …

President Trump took to Twitter late Monday to announce that “numerous people were arrested” in Washington, D.C., as protesters attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew  Jackson in Lafayette Square Park and—once again—targeted the nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church. “Numerous people arrested in D.C. for the disgraceful vandalism, in Lafayette Park, of the magnificent …