A deputy in Clare County, MI, went to 80-year-old Delores Saltzman's home in June trying to return a lost phone and ID to her granddaughter.

When the deputy left, she had Saltzman in handcuffs in the back seat of her patrol car.

According to WXMI, the deputy smelled marijuana from the front porch of Saltzman's home. When the deputy asked Saltzman who it belonged to, she confessed it was hers.

Ordinarily, that wouldn't have been an issue. Saltzman lives with arthritis, diverticulitis, muscle and bone aches, so she uses the substance to manage pain.

Gold prices in Iran are hitting record levels daily as Iranians seek to protect their savings against pending US sanctions that are dragging down the national currency.

The White House is on the verge of reinstating sanctions against the Islamic Republic that were lifted following the historic nuclear deal sealed between Tehran and world powers in 2015. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the agreement on May 8.

The first round of renewed US sanctions will take effect on Tuesday with the harshest penalties expected in early November. The US will impose a ban on the country's automotive sector and metals trading, while further sanctions will target oil and shipping industries.

The imminent ban has tripled year-on-year demand for the precious metal, including bars and coins, to about 15 metric tons, according to the latest report by the World Gold Council. To meet the surging demand Iran's central bank had to mint hundreds of thousands of coins, reportedly totaling over 60 tons of gold.

MSNBC's resident 'Russia expert' has demonstrated the depth of his knowledge by falsely referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a former director of the KGB."

Speaking to host Bill Maher on Friday, Malcolm Nance unleashed a host of wacky 'Russiagate' conspiracy theories - President Trump was convinced to run for president by Russia's top oligarchs; Trump and Putin have a plan to steal the 2020 election "already hashed out;" and the terrible twosome used their recent Helsinki summit to plot the division of the Western world between them.

Nance, a 20-year Navy veteran cryptologist and private intelligence consultant, went on to call Vladimir Putin "a former director of the KGB."

After defeating various hardline Islamist militant groups in Deraa and Quneitra, the Syrian Army is set to oust Daesh* terrorists from the Sweida Governorate in southern Syria.

Kurdish forces are willing and ready to assist government forces in their Sweida anti-Daesh campaign, the Firat news agency reported on Sunday, citing a YPG commander.

In an interview, Commander General Sipan Hemo said the YPG has repeatedly demonstrated its competence in battling and defeating Daesh terrorists in many parts of Syria.

Former British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson has added to his long list of offensive comments by describing women who wear the niqab as "letter boxes" and compared those that adorn the burqa to a "bank robber".

Johnson, who quit his ministerial position in July, due to his dissatisfaction at what he sees as PM Theresa May's "soft brexit" approach, made his comments in his latest Telegraph column which focused on Denmark's recent decision to impose a full-face veil ban for those of the Islamic faith.

Johnson labelled the religious symbol "oppressive", and claimed of the niqab: "It is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes." On those that wear the burqa he appeared to draw comparisons with a female student who turned up to school "looking like a bank robber" - adding they should be asked to remove their face covering.

Spanish police have detained nine German citizens who engaged in "religious propaganda" and caused panic on the Valencia metro on Sunday.

The troublemakers, who called themselves "evangelical Christians" began shouting at passengers between the Xativa and Alameda metro stations, according to the Europa Press news agency.

Recently released Tommy Robinson claims he was 'mentally tortured' in prison complaining of no TV, inability to eat prison food and being moved to facility with larger Muslims population.

Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) got a 13 month sentence in May for contempt of court. On Wednesday, the defense team for the darling of the British and international right successfully appealed the sentence and he was released on bail pending a retrial.

In several prison complaint forms posted to his Facebook page on Friday, Robinson's claims of mistreatment included being moved from a prison where only 7% of inmates were Muslim to one where a third of them are; being locked up for 23 hours a day "for his own protection,"; and accused prison authorities of "punishing" him with no TV access in his cell.

In response to the New York Times' decision to stand by their most recent hire - open bigot Sarah Jeong, who really hates white people, men (especially white men), and cops - black conservative Candace Owens carried out a thought experiment we mentioned last week in which we replaced the word "white" with "black" to illustrate Jeong's animus.

A sample of Jeong's controversial tweets:

A contest for political control of Europe is gearing up between two American teams, one headed by the long-established George Soros, and the other now being set up by the upstart Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump's former campaign-manager. Soros has long led America's liberal billionaires in controlling Europe, and Bannon is now organizing a team of America's conservative billionaires to wrest that control from the liberal ones. Whereas Soros claims to represent the public's interests, Bannon claims to represent the population's interests - that's the 'populist' side of America's billionaires, versus the established 'public-interest' (Soros) side of them.

Two American brands of 'philanthropists' will thus now be fighting for control over Europe's political markets (or institutions).

It's a battle to serve either 'the public' or else 'the people', and each political brand will be struggling to keep Europe as an ally in American billionaires' war against Russia (which all American billionaires want to defeat), but each team does this from a different ideological perspective, one being 'liberal', and the other being 'conservative'.

Just as there is liberal-conservative political polarization between billionaires domestically within a nation, there also is such political polarization between billionaires regarding their given nation's foreign policies; and America's billionaires are politically very highly polarized, both nationally and, increasingly, internationally as well. None of them is progressive, or left-populist. The only 'populism' that any billionaire currently promotes is right-'populist', which is Bannon's team. (Stalin was left-'populist'; and Hitler was right-'populist'; but neither dictator really was at all populist, which is simply democratic and against the aristocracy.) Both teams demonize each other within the United States for control over the US Government, but both are now competing against each other internationally for control over the entire world, by two different brands: liberal versus conservative. Both brands endorse 'democracy' or "the allies"; and both support spreading that 'democracy' by means of invading and occupying 'dictatorships' or "the enemies." In Europe, this is called "imperialism"; in America, it is called "neo-conservatism" or "neoconservatism"; but no American billionaire actively opposes it (because to oppose it would be to oppose the aristocracy itself, the billionaires' control over the Government - the very system that has been enormously successful for them, far more than the public itself recognizes).

A motorcade carrying the US ambassador to Bangladesh came under attack in the capital, Dhaka, the US Embassy said. The incident comes amid massive protests over road safety.

An official US Embassy vehicle, which was transporting US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat, was attacked in the Mohammadpur district of Dhaka late Saturday "by a group of armed adult men, some on motorcycles," the embassy said in a statement on Sunday. The ambassador, as well as her security team and drivers, did not sustain any injuries in the attack, the statement added, saying that everyone "departed the area unharmed."

However, two security vehicles were damaged in the incident. The attack came after the US ambassador left the residence of Badiul Alam Majumder, a secretary of a local civil society advocacy group known as Shujan, around 11:00pm (local time) on Saturday.