Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Tuesday Things - Part 1

On a warm cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the ACLU's Title IX lawsuit that appears to run against the C and the L.

From FrontpageMag, how America must fail if the Democrats are to succeed.

From Townhall, the hypocrisy from the liberal media never ends.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Biden pledges to dump the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would likely cost thousands of jobs.

From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Pence is not currently taking hydroxychloroquine.

From The Federalist, the mining town that refuses to shut down and die.

From American Thinker, the left's miscalculated attempt to use the coronavirus to defeat President Trump.

From CNS News, New York's Mr. Bill wants his beaches to stay closed, at least for Memorial Day.

From LifeZette, the new coronavirus bill would require the U.S. to borrow more money from (drum roll, please) China.

From NewsBusters, media people who cover sports suddenly have problems with affirmative action.

From Canada Free Press, we're now in the second Cold War.

From CBC News, the Canada-U.S. border will stay closed for another month.

From Global News, the Nova Scotia mass shooter was a "psychopath" and was "paranoid" about the coronavirus pandemic.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Ontario will keep its schools closed until September.

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian doctor accuses President Jair Bolsonaro of being "at war with science".

From Morocco World News, inmates in Moroccan prisons make 20,000 face masks per day.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey celebrates Youth and Sports Day, and commemorates the country's founder Kemal Atatürk.

From Turkish Minute, according to a report, Turkey and Russia helped bring Syria's civil war to Libya.

From Rûdaw, a rocket lands in an empty house near the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus reports one new coronavirus case, for the second straight day.

From The Syrian Observer, restoration work starts on the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli archaeologists find three ancient rooms under the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, the first known commercial flight from the UAE to Israel lands in Tel Aviv.

From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli mobster storms a Palestinian town to retrieve his stolen horse.

From YNetNews, Prime Minister Netanyahu's lawyers object to a demand for him to appear at the opening of his trial.

From the Egypt Independent, a magnitude 5.4 earthquakes strikes Egypt.

From Egypt Today, the new Grand Egyptian Museum receives 346 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, including 10 statues of the Pharaoh Senusret I.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres calls for Ethiopia's dam talks to resume.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's ministry of municipal and rural affairs gives supermarkets and grocery stores permission to sell tobacco.

From The New Arab, police arrest dozens striking workers in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

From Radio Farda, an Iranian lawmaker is sentenced to jail starting when his term ends.  (You could say that one kind of term follows another kind.)

From IranWire, who is the Iranian parkour champion arrested for posting picture of a kiss on social media?  (If you're wondering what parkour is, go here.)

From Dawn, seven Pakistani soldiers are killed in two terror attacks in the province of Balochistan.

From The Express Tribune, police and protesting factory workers face off in Karachi, Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, trains in Pakistan will operate at 60 percent capacity to provide social distancing, without any reduction of fare.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban claim responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Parwan, Afghanistan.

From The Hans India, live updates as cyclone Amphan hits the Indian states of Odisha and West Bengal.

From the Hindustan Times, as Amphan approaches, nearly 4.2 million people are evacuated from the coasts of India and Bangladesh.

From ANI, as India gradually opens from its coronavirus lockdown, vehicle sanitizers get to work.

From India Today, an ambulance driver in Coimbatore, India is arrested for calling two women from the state of Manipur "corona spreaders".

From the Dhaka Tribune, coastal areas in Bangladesh are likely to get a danger signal 10 due to the storm Amphan.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka promotes 177 army officers.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promises that war heroes will not be harassed.

From Maldives Insider, Maldivian tourism authorities invites comments on proposals for reopening.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's shift toward clean energy takes a step back due to fossil fuel subsidies and the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, what to know as Singapore ends its coronavirus "circuit breaker" measures on June 1st.

From the Borneo Post, the Royal Malaysian Police sets up a task force to identify people traveling between states without a permit.

From Free Malaysia Today, police in the Malaysian state of Penang receive 8,386 applications for interstate travel permits.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attends the 73rd World Health Assembly meeting online.

From The Mainichi, Tokyo Olympic officials are "incensed" at a coronavirus-inspired parody of their logo.

From Gatestone Institute, Israeli settlements are not illegal.

From The Stream, Christian supporters of Israel should not become enemies of the Gospel.

From the Daily Caller, a bill by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) blocks stimulus money to illegal aliens.

From ZDNet, the Ukrainian Secret Service arrests a hacker for allegedly selling billions of stolen credentials.

From Sp!ked, the U.N. gets woke.

From Fox News, Ford recommends that President Trump wears a mask when he visits one of its factories in Michigan.

From the New York Post, a woman wears a hippo suit to hug her mother at her nursing home.

And from Twitchy, journalist Catherine Herridge shows former National Security Advisor Susan Rice a declassified email that she sent to herself.

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