On a warm sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, how President Trump made congressional candidate (R-FL) Laura Loomer's primary win possible.
From FrontpageMag, Democrats share in the blame for the deaths of both George Floyd and Cannon Hinnant.
From Townhall, according to new polling the Democratic convention has been going well - for Trump.
From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a study, up to 12 percent of Virginia voters are registered illegally.
From the Washington Examiner, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and three others are indicted for allegedly defrauding donors in a fundraiser for building a border wall.
From The Federalist, by nominating Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) for vice president, Democrats tell blue-collar workers that they are done with them.
From American Thinker, today is the anniversary of the Battle of Yarmuk.
From CNS News, Trump's former rival thinks that he might "sneak of steal his way to victory".
From LifeZette, the keystone to the 2020 presidential election could be the Keystone State.
From Newsbusters, the media have been covering Senator (D-Del)/Vice President Biden's gaffes for decades.
From Canada Free Press, the Obama-Clinton "gang-up" at the Democratic convention.
From CBC News, the third noted wildfire in the Canadian province of British Columbia prompts an evacuation order.
From Global News, why is there a spike in coronavirus cases in British Columbia?
From CTV News, fire crews prepare for changes in the weather while fighting a blaze near Okanagan Falls, British Columbia. (I've given the province of British Columbia a three-fer.)
From TeleSUR, Argentina's health ministry finds 4 million doses of expired vaccines.
From Morocco World News, Morocco signs two agreements with a Chinese company for trials of a coronavirus vaccine.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, Turkey is talking with Germany, Russia and China about coronavirus vaccine trials.
From Turkish Minute, as tension escalates in the eastern Mediterranean, the Greek island of Crete gets a visitor from the U.S.
From Rûdaw, ISIS offers to release a prisoner, as part of an exchange.
From Panorama, a new police patrol service will start in Yerevan, Armenia in 2021. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From In-Cyprus, motorcyclists protest Cyprus's noise control decree.
From The Syrian Observer, a large Turkish convoy enters northwestern Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to accept a compromise which will (in his view) prevent another round of elections.
From The Times Of Israel, Gantz faults Netanyahu for "sidelining" him about F-35 fighter jets as the Israel-UAE peace agreement was being worked on.
From The Jerusalem Post, police remove an anti-Netanyahu protest tent near his official residents.
From YNetNews, Israelis protest the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at a hotel in the city of Eilat.
From the Egypt Independent, a three-way meeting produces some dam proposals.
From Egypt Today, the Evangelical Church in Egypt plans to resume weekday services starting on August 28th.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, a Kenyan journalist is released from detention in Ethiopia, about a week after reportedly contracting the coronavirus.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Princess Haifa unveils a UNESCO initiative highlighting the country's cultural diversity.
From The New Arab, Hezbollah reportedly purchased the same type of chemical which exploded in Beirut, Lebanon.
From Radio Farda, Iran claims to have seized a UAE ship and that UAE coast guard personnel killed two Iranian fishermen.
From IranWire, an Iranian writer accused of alleged "propaganda against the regime" is released on bail.
From Dawn, Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi arrives in China for a "very important" two-day visit.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Supreme Court gives the country's government four more months to revamp its railways.
From Pakistan Today, the provincial government of Sindh approves the creation of a new district in Karachi, Pakistan.
From Khaama Press, according to Afghan President Mohammad Ghani, releasing more Taliban prisoners may results in "a wave of narcotics" entering Great Britain.
From The Hans India, 33 people become ill due to a gas leak at a dairy near Chittoor, India.
From the Hindustan Times, India urges the international community to isolate Pakistan for allegedly supporting terror. (I say "allegedly" because accusations by either of these two mutually hostile countries against the other deserve a bit of NaCl.)
From India Today, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 completes its first year orbiting the moon, and has enough fuel to operate for seven more years.
From the Dhaka Tribune, rivers around Dhaka, Bangladesh are rising again.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promises a new constitution based in the principle of "one country, one law".
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's ninth parliament starts its first sitting.
From Maldives Insider, the Ritz-Carlton Maldives is hiring.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia issues stamps to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its independence, and to mark the coronavirus.
From The Straits Times, about 14,500 foreign workers in Singapore are still in quarantine.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's king and queen celebrate Maal Hijrah. (I believe that this is the Islamic new year, since the Muslim calendar is dated from the hijrah of Mohammed from Mecca to Yathrib, which is now known as Medina.)
From Free Malaysia Today, a man is arrested for allegedly driving while on drugs after hitting six vehicles with his car in the Malaysian district of Seberang Perai.
From Vietnam Plus, according to a foreign ministry spokesperson, the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos are "inseparable" parts of Vietnam.
From The Mainichi, a safe containing over a million yen is stolen from a ninja museum in the Japanese prefecture of Mie. (I'd say that messing with ninjas is probably not a good idea.)
From Gatestone Institute, is it really possible to deradicalize terrorists?
From The Stream, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would not count on Democrats defunding the police.
From The Daily Signal, what's really happening with the U.S. Postal Service.
From Space War, President Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Kadhemi will meet to discuss the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.
From the Daily Caller, activist Candace Owens explains why she started the "BLEXIT" movement.
From Fox News, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry warns that violent crime in the U.S. is going to get worse.
From the New York Post, Hunter Biden is set to speak on the final night of the Democrat convention.
And from The Daily Wire, according to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump does not support the conspiracy movement QAnon.
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