Weapons seized at Portland right-wing rally, counterprotests

Portland, Ore. • Police seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, in a situation the mayor termed “potentially dangerous and volatile.”Authorities also set up concrete barriers and closed streets and bridges in an effort to contain and separate the rival groups.Flag-waving members of the Proud Boys and Three Percenters militia group began gathering late i