Friday, October 2, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

On a cool sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump and the First Lady test positive for the coronavirus.

From FrontpageMag, what left-wing attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson really symbolize.

From Townhall, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) tests positive for the coronavirus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb) warns Democrats against targeting SCOTUS nominee Amy Comey Barrett's faith.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump's medical outlook, now that he's coronavirus positive.

From The Federalist, why the media keep asking Trump to denounce white supremacy.

From American Thinker, a theory for why former Vice President Biden can't win with Hispanic Americans.

From CNS News, Trump points out how New York Governor Al Smith (D) "spent his life" battling anti-Catholic prejudice that even today is present within the Democratic Party.

From LifeZette, Trump does indeed tell the Proud Boys to stand down.

From NewsBusters and the "Why am I not surprised?" department, networks get excited by the "worst case scenario" for Trump.

From Canada Free Press, do the Democrats think that they've found the "kill switch" for the 2020 election?

From CBC News, Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as the province considers establishing coronavirus "red zones" amid record high numbers of new cases.

From Global News, the Canadian senate passes a coronavirus relief bill.

From CTV News, the Canadian government reportedly intends to ease rules about cross-border family unifications.

From TeleSUR, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei threatens to arrest the Hondurans who have illegally entered his country.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. deals with "government by bullying".

From Snouts in the Trough, as the earth isF round and orbits the sun, is climate cyclical?

From the Express, hundreds of students at Northumbria University test positive for the cororonavirus.

From the Evening Standard, people are evacuated from part of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2 after a "suspicious item" is found.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a 17-year-old neo-Nazi is convicted of preparing terrorist acts in Birmingham, England.

From the (Irish) Independent, one coronavirus-positive person broken Ireland's rules and passed it to 60 other people.

From the Irish Examiner, gardaí are called to a college campus in Galway, Ireland after a gun hoax.

From VRT NWS, the love child of former Belgian King Albert II wins the right to be called a princess.

From The Brussels Times, the first coronavirus testing village in Brussels opens.

From the NL Times, Amsterdam's mayor had concerns about crowds a day before a large BLM protest.

From the Dutch News, many Dutch people still don't want to wear face masks.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany still faces old problems 30 years after being reunified.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government again bans pepper spray.

From Free West Media, a Sudanese man in Sweden suspected of murder and rape mocks his victims.

From Polskie Radio, the E.U. approves a Polish plan to give economic aid to Belarus.

From Radio Prague, Czechs vote in regional and senate elections under coronavirus measures.

From The Slovak Spectator, five advantages man has over robots.  (The word "robot" has origins in Slavic languages.  For example, in Polish, robota means "work" and robotnik means "worker".)

From Daily News Hungary, three Syrians who illegally entered Hungary are given suspended prison sentences and are expelled from Hungary for two years.  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Index.)

From Hungary Today, according to the press, more people are hospitalized in Hungary with the coronavirus than indicated by official data.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Portfolio.)

From About Hungary, the Hungarian government extends its temporary border controls for another month.

From Russia Today, the creator of Russia's coronavirus vaccine offers it to the U.S. White House staff.

From Sputnik International, the E.U. calls for a transparent investigation into the alleged poisoning of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.

From The Moscow Times, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov offers to take blame for Navalny's poisoning.

From Romania-Insider, Romania reports three straight days of over 2,000 new coronavirus cases, including a record of 2,343 in the last 24 hours.

From Novinite, Bulgaria reports 263 new coronavirus cases.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria starts a food package program for needy people.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Council of Europe calls on Bulgarian authorities start video recording police interrogations.

From Ekathimerini, a sailing vessel carrying 59 migrants is escorted to a safe area off the Greek island of Crete.

From the Greek Reporter, two non-profit organizations join forces to create new shelters for minor refugees in Athens.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, North Macedonia is becoming an energy hub.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama refuses U.S. President Trump's request to move Albania's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

From Total Croatia News, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Dubrovnik, Croatia and tests negative for the coronavirus.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia reports 238 new coronavirus cases.

From the Malta Independent, the Gozo Ministry introduces a plan to encourage families to adopt pets from the island's animal welfare section.  (Gozo is the second largest island in Malta.)

From Malta Today, Moviment Graffitti activists block road construction on farmland in Dingli, Malta.

From ANSA, according to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, extending Italy' coronavirus state of emergency is not an abuse of power.

From SwissInfo, secondary students in Geneva, Switzerland protest against "shame t-shirts".

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron outlines a plan to fight "Islamist separatism".

From RFI, France's National Assembly votes to extend the country's controversial emergency health law.

From EuroNews, a man in France is given a suspended sentence for publishing a video showing how to make a Molotov cocktail.

From ReMix, according to French philosopher Éric Zemmour, all unaccompanied underage migrants should be deported from France.

From El País, what are the new coronavirus restrictions in the Spanish region of Madrid?

From The Portugal New, two more migrants of 17 which had escaped from a holding center are apprehended in Castro Marim, Portugal.

From Euractiv, medical cannabis is "weeded out" from the E.U.'s short-term policy agenda.  (Was the pun intended?)

From The Stream, how worried should we be about Mr. and Mrs. Trump?

From The Daily Signal, according to former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf, the U.S. and China are in a cold war.

From The Daily Wire, California reopens playgrounds but issues "ridiculous" guidelines.

From Breitbart, reforms on H-1B visas are on a fast track to President Trump's desk.

From The American Conservative, Maryland's Purple Line is "the light rail at the end of the tunnel".

From Fox News, according to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump is working and in "good spirits".

From WPVI-TV, what happens if Trump becomes seriously ill?

From the New York Post, Trump joins a list of world leaders who have contracted the coronavirus.

And from the Genesius Times, in an effort to stop being accused of racism, Trump makes like former Vice President Biden and eulogizes the late klansman Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV).

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