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Good morning, Portland! We hope you celebrated Portland’s LGBTQ+ community and/or dads to their full extent this weekend. Here’s how the Mercury spent its Sunday:

Iran Goes Nuclear: Iran is on track to exceed nuclear energy limits agreed upon in a 2015 deal (that the US pulled out of last year), unless other countries step up and show opposition to the current US sanctions placed on Iran.

Hong Kong Gets Loud: Nearly two million people joined protests in Hong Kong this weekend, opposing a bill that will allow people to be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China—a region with a far less transparent justice system. A Saturday apology about the now-shelved bill by Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam did little to appease the frustrated and frightened public.

The Important Stuff: The biggest takeaway from this lengthy George Stephanopoulos interview with Trump: “I don’t call it tweets. I call it social media.” Do with that information what you will.

Vanderbilt Rules: Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer, heiress, and Anderson Cooper mom, has died at 95. Here’s a sweet obit by her son:

To Serve & Protect: Phoenix’s mayor has apologized after police officers pointed their guns and threatened to shoot a family after suspecting their 4-year-old daughter had stolen a doll from a store. The officers weren’t necessarily wrong—the girl had left the Family Dollar store with a doll, unbeknownst to her parents—but the fact they almost killed her parents over it (of course, officers believe the mother was “reaching for a gun,” but there were no weapons found at the scene) is horrifying. The family is suing for $10 million.

NO, THEY AREN’T TURTLES: PEOPLE ARE CLIMBING OUT OF THE SEWER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN NW PORTLAND.

The Cake Fight Saga: The Supreme Court won’t be hearing a Portland-area case between a bakery and the same-sex couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for.

Slow Down, Portland: An 82-year old woman was killed after being hit by a car last week on SE Foster, just hours after the city announced its pedestrian-friendly safety improvements in the same corridor.

Soccer Updates! Portland Thorns tie with cross-country rivals, North Carolina Courage! Women’s US national team wins its second game (3-0 against Chile) in the 2019 World Cup! The Mercury’s Erin O’Reagan has the scoop.

Annnnnd Taylor Swift dropped a star-studded new music video. Watch it for the Cardi B drag.

Alex Zielinski is a former News Editor for the Portland Mercury. She's here to tell stories about economic inequities, cops, civil rights, and weird city politics that you should probably be paying attention...