On a sunny but cool Saturday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, President Trump's threat on recess appointments is empty.
From Townhall, the coronavirus is not the first that China has covered up something to protect its image.
From The Washington Free Beacon, support for bringing medical manufacturing back from China grows in the House.
From the Washington Examiner, despite the coronavirus-related economic slump, small-dollar donors keep giving to the RNC.
From LifeZette, according to U.S. intelligence, then-President Obama gave millions of dollars to the lab in Wuhan, China where the coronavirus is thought to have originated.
From NewsBusters, a blunder by former Vice President Biden that the media hope you don't remember.
From Canada Free Press, let's call it the "Chi Com Gov Virus".
From CBC News, Canada and the U.S. agree to extend the restrictions at their common border for 30 days.
From Global News, according to Mayor John Tory, Toronto will be reopened in a "phased approach".
From CTV News, Ontario Provincial Police stop a driver who was doing 271 kmph. (That's 186 MPH.)
From TeleSUR, President Jair Bolsonaro closes the Brazilian embassy and consulates in Venezuela.
From The Portugal News, Portugal starts the third period of its coronavirus state of emergency today.
From El País, the premier of Catalonia seeks to further its independence cause during the coronavirus crisis.
From Voice Of Europe, the Spanish Ministry of Health orders the recall of 350,000 defective face masks made in China. (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Mundo.)
From France24, in an about-face, France decides against discriminating by age when it lifts its coronavirus lockdown.
From RFI, a year after the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, "the soul of France" sleeps.
From SwissInfo, the Swiss army removes a World War I grenade from the Rhine.
From the Malta Independent, the Malta Tourism Authority says "Dream Malta Now...Visit Later".
From Malta Today, according to a Maltese criminologist, critics of Malta's government over the deaths of migrants at sea should blame the E.U. instead.
From Total Slovenia News, a roundup of coronavirus-related news in Slovenia.
From Total Croatia News, how a cholera epidemic in 1855 on the island of Hvar paved a street in Stari Grad. (This island and city are now in Croatia, but would have been part of Austria Hungary back then.)
From Ekathimerini, the Holy Light will arrive in Athens, but will not be distributed from there.
From the Greek Reporter, 50 refugee children leave Greece for Germany.
From Novinite, trains leaving from the central station in Sofia, Bulgaria are back on schedule.
From The Sofia Globe, police will conduct "serious" checks of people returning to Sofia.
From Radio Bulgaria, although the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided to keep its churches open, most were empty on Holy Saturday. (The Orthodox Easter is tomorrow.)
From Russia Today, a drink driver in St. Petersburg, Russia is lucky to be alive.
From Sputnik International, President Putin signs a decree on temporary measures on the status of foreign citizens in Russia.
From The Moscow Times, Russia confirms its seventh consecutive daily record of new coronavirus cases.
From EuroNews, Orthodox Churches disagree about how to worship safely during Easter.
From Daily News Hungary, a look at Hungarian folk costumes, past and present. (In 2000, my tour group visited Hollókő, one of the places where the costumes were photographed for the article.)
From Hungary Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban inspects a ventilator prototype.
From About Hungary, according to Hungary's Operational Group, Budapest and Pest County are the country's areas with the most coronavirus infections.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia reports 40 new coronavirus cases.
From Radio Prague, the Russian embassy in Prague changes its address because the adjacent square was renamed.
From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda sends Easter greeting to Orthodox Christians.
From the CPH Post, dealing with fatphobia during the coronavirus crisis.
From Deutsche Welle, a man in Heinsberg, Germany 3D prints protective face shields for senior homes.
From the NL Times, participants in an illegal poker tournament in the Netherlands will (figuratively) cough up fines.
From Dutch News, the Netherlands reports a continuing decline in coronavirus-related hospital admissions.
From VRT NWS, a supermarket in Zulte, Belgium introduces one-way traffic in its corridors.
From The Brussels Times, Belgium's do-it-yourself stores are gradually reopening.
From Free West Media, schools in the E.U. face an education headache due to the coronavirus.
From the Express, Britons are angry after a Lancashire police officer threatens to "make something up" so he can arrest someone.
From the Evening Standard, the U.K. government allows funerals to take place with the close family of the deceased.
From the (U.K.) Independent, scientists at Oxford University believe that they could produce a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September, if trials show that it is effective.
From the (Irish) Independent, all residents and staff at nursing homes and other long-stay care facilities in Ireland will be tested for the coronavirus.
From the Irish Examiner, according to an Irish coronavirus expert advisory group, restrictions should be lifted in a "slow and controlled manner".
From The Conservative Woman, how should the U.K. end its coronavirus lockdown?
From The Stream, the show Cosmos wrongly claims that the Polish astronomer Copernicus demoted the earth.
From WPVI-TV, the Washington Township, New Jersey police department puts out quarantine videos to connect with their community.
From the Daily Caller, Elizabeth, New Jersey monitors social distancing with drones made in the same country that produced the coronavirus.
From Breitbart, citizens of Ohio protest in Columbus to urge Governor Mike DeWine (R) to reopen the state.
From the New York Post, New York state will allow weddings to take place during the coronavirus crisis - by video.
And from Twitchy, residents should report any non-essential businesses that operate illegally, says the mayor who has no problem with illegal aliens residing in his city.
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