On a damp cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, experts explain the online organizing behind the left-wing riots.
From FrontpageMag, statues of Abraham Lincoln are pulled down because he allowed convicted rapists and child killers to be hanged.
From Townhall, how former Vice President Biden is trapped by revelations about his son Hunter.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the late Justice Antonin Scalia's family.
From the Washington Examiner, according to a conservative watchdog, over 90 percent of political donations by Facebook and Twitter employees to Democrats.
From The Federalist, the left targets Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) for not hitting SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett harder.
From American Thinker, questions that the media won't ask Biden.
From CNS News, Biden's town hall was moderated by someone who worked for Mr. Bill's first presidential campaign.
From LifeZette, former Biden aide Steve Scully admits lying being hacked on Twitter.
From NewsBusters, media networks bury the Hunter Biden scandal. (If Donald Trump the Younger or Eric Trump were to engage in what Hunter Biden appears to have done, we'd never hear the end of it.)
From Canada Free Press, President Trump "will win big" despite what the media and polls say. (Wait a minute, I thought the term was "bigly".)
From CBC News, Canada's Supreme Court rules that the Royal Canadian Mount Police's pension plan discriminates against women.
From Global News, due to tensions with non-indigenous fishers, Sipek'nekatik First Nation chief Michael Sack orders indigenous fishers to leave the water.
From CTV News, Canadian court martials are put in limbo as the country's military justice system faces a constitutional challenge.
From TeleSUR, the Mexican government asks private hospitals to provide free coronavirus treatment.
From The Portugal News, Prime Minister António Costa warns that Portugal could have "even more restrictive measures" due to the coronavirus.
From El País, Barcelona's bars close due to coronavirus restrictions.
From France24, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an investigation for allegedly accepting campaign funds from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. (Or as I like to call him, Gaddafi-Duck.)
From EuroNews, more on the decapitation near Paris, in which the victim was a teacher who had shown Muhammad cartoons in his class.
From Free West Media, high-ranking French politicians are raided over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
From SwissInfo, Switzerland prepares for a fanless ski season.
From ANSA, according to anaesthetists, ICU care is at risk in all of Italy's regions.
From the Malta Independent, when it Malta, keep your mask on.
From Malta Today, more on Malta's new coronavirus restrictions.
From Total Slovenia News, the Ljubljana Marathon is canceled due to Slovenia's new coronavirus restrictions.
From Total Croatia News, Split becomes the first city in Croatia to join the European Green Cities program.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albania's National Labor Council approves an increase in the country's minimum wage.
From Balkan Insight, a 19 century Croatian viceroy's house in Novi Sad, Serbia is given to a body representing Croats in that country.
From Ekathimerini, Greece's education ministry recruits 2,380 new teachers.
From the Greek Reporter, the Greek island of Rineia, now used for agriculture, was once a quarantine area.
From Novinite, on the 100th day of anti-government protests, tens of thousands of people gather in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.
From The Sofia Globe, new car registrations in Bulgaria fall by 36.7 percent during the first nine months of 2020 compared to a year earlier.
From Radio Bulgaria, on today's date in 1912, two Bulgaria pilots made the first military flight in Europe.
From Euractiv, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov asks European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a "plan" to help his country phase out coal.
From Romania-Insider, Romanian hospitals prepare for coronavirus patients are infections increase. (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews)
From Russia Today, according to a government forecast, the population of Russia could decrease by 1.2 million by 2024.
From Sputnik International, Russia starts testing its first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers over 60 years of age.
From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin proposes a one-year extension for the START treaty.
From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian travels around Europe with his donkey. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at SonLine.)
From Hungary Today, Foreign Minister Szijjarto inaugurates the Hungarian embassy's new consular section in Hanoi, Vietnam. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)
From About Hungary, Hungarian companies plan to invest in a project to rehabilitate Lake Laguna in the Philippines.
From The Slovak Spectator, the 32 richest Slovaks have a combined worth of €12 billion. (Although I am comfortably well off and mostly Slovak by ethnicity, I don't think that I'm not on the list.)
From Radio Prague, President Miloš Zeman urges his fellow Czechs to wear face masks.
From ReMix, to the disapproval of fans, the Czech national soccer team kneels for the BLM movement. (If you read Czech, read the story at Echo24.)
From Polskie Radio, on today's date in 1978, Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected Pope.
From the CPH Post, water levels in the Baltic Sea are the highest since 1991.
From Deutsche Welle, leaders of Germany's domestic intelligence agency contract the coronavirus.
From the NL Times, a Dutch singer faces death threats for releasing a Sinterklaas song that does not mention the folk character Zwarte Piet.
From Dutch News, international parents give Dutch schools mixed marks.
From VRT NWS, in Belgium, bars and restaurants will close, a curfew will be imposed, and Belgians will be allowed just one "close" social contact.
From The Brussels Times, the interior ministers of Belgium and the Netherlands warn their respective peoples against crossing their border.
From the Express, U.K. Brexit negotiator tells his E.U. counterpart Michel Barnier to not come to London unless he changes his position.
From the Evening Standard, couples living apart in the U.K.'s tier 2 areas, unless in a "support bubble", have to stay at least six feet from each other.
From the (U.K.) Independent, almost 2,000 students at universities in northeastern England test positive for the coronavirus.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team recommends level 5 coronavirus restrictions for the entire country for six weeks.
From the Irish Examiner, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, workers in Ireland should have the "legal right" to work from home.
From The Conservative Woman, will Prime Minister Boris Johnson betray the U.K. over Brexit, just like everything else?
From Snouts in the Trough, why do so many Western people hate their own countries?
From The Stream, a look at the American military fighting a war in Afghanistan and one against the coronavirus back here at home.
From Space Daily, Stratolaunch's new hypersonic vehicle will use software from Draper.
From HistoryNet, an Italian misadventure in the aerial Battle of Britain.
From Sino Daily, China warns Canada against giving sanctuary to people from Hong Kong.
From Fox News, a Michigan judge rules that case against suspects accused to plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) can go to trial.
From The Daily Wire, according to right-wing journalist Matt Walsh, Big Tech's crackdown on "misinformation" seems to go only one way.
From WPVI-TV, how to watch next week's Orionid meteor shower.
And from Breitbart, my governor casts a write-in vote.
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