As the second half of 2021 gets underway, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the Supreme Court upholds Republican-backed provisions in Arizona's voting law.
From FrontpageMag, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party should be mourned.
From Townhall, a leading scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has connections to the Chinese military.
From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a DHS document, a foreigner with a student visa tried to take sensitive intelligence material out of the U.S.
From the Washington Examiner, the culture war blowup in Loudon County, Virginia schools fuels the state's gubernatorial race.
From The Federalist, what the left means by "the Constitution".
From American Thinker, former President Trump is probably "extremely clean" if all that the New York prosecutors can come up with is tax-related charges against his company's CFO.
From CNS News, according to congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Democrats are "beholden to a radical ideology that doesn't let them think with common sense.
From LifeZette, a judge in New York City throws out a case because the grand jury which indicted the defendant was "too white".
From NewsBusters, according to a columnist for The New York Times, the Democrats "have a year to save the planet". (Will he admit that he was wrong if we're all still here in July of 2022?)
From Canada Free Press, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lies about where thousands of indigenous Canadian children are buried.
From CBC News, the past piece of the Lower Post former residential school in the Canadian province of British Columbia will be demolished.
From TeleSUR, Bolivia plans to vaccinate everyone over 18 years old against the coronavirus.
From The Conservative Woman, if offshore assessment of migrants into the U.K. works, let's do it.
From the Express, Princes William and Harry unveil a statue of their mother Princess Diana.
From Free West Media, the U.K. considers relocating asylum seekers to Africa, as Denmark is doing.
From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish HSE chief Paul Reid, in a worst-case scenario, hospitals would suffer an "explosive" impact from the delta coronavirus variant.
From VRT NWS, a Belgian pilot ejects from his F-16 fighter jet before it at an air force base in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
From the NL Times, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema makes a formal apology for the city's role in the Dutch slave trade.
From Deutsche Welle, the not-so-warm relationship between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
From Gatestone Institute, Germany's banning of the Hamas flag is called "a superficial measure".
From the CPH Post, a Dane is found not guilty of killing a German on a ferry in Finland in 1987.
From Polskie Radio, Poland launches free medical checkups for people over 40.
From Radio Prague, the municipal library in Prague, Czech Republic marks its 130th anniversary.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks develop a breathalyzer for the coronavirus.
From Daily News Hungary, everything to know about Hungary's latest easing of its coronavirus measures. (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Index.)
From ReMix, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland reject immigration quotas and tax hikes.
From Russia Today, wildfires strike in Russia's Far East.
From Romania Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis decorates the survivors of the Iaşi pogrom of 1941.
From Novinite, Bulgaria confirms its plans to join the Eurozone in 2024.
From the Greek Reporter, Greece issues new rules for travelers to its islands.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to President Aleksandar Vučić, Serbia will decide if and when it will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
From Balkan Insight, a court in Kosovo orders the detention of two members of the Independent Media Commission for alleged bribery.
From Total Croatia News, the first half of 2021 brings some good news for Croatia's tourism industry. (If you read Croatian, read the story at HRTurizam.)
From Total Slovenia News, as Slovenia takes over the E.U.'s presidency, its internal opposition will not call a truce with Prime Minister Janez Janša.
From The Malta Independent, Alexandra Mamo becomes Malta's first female deputy police commissioner.
From ANSA, Italian police dismantle a Nazi-fascist group.
From EuroNews, the murder of a 13-year-old Austrian girl sparks a debate about how the country deports asylum seekers who violate its laws.
From SwissInfo, according to a survey, a majority of Swiss people support the legalization of cannabis.
From France24, the Tour de France drops its legal complaint against a spectator who caused a pileup on its opening day.
From El País, Spaniards line up to exchange their pesetas for euros.
From Euractiv, Spain joins an international campaign to close coal-fired power plants, under which its own would be shut down by 2030.
From The Portugal News, Portugal imposes a curfew in 45 counties.
From Morocco World News, Morocco will turn its liaison office in Tel Aviv, Israel into an official embassy.
From The North Africa Post, police in Tangier, Morocco dismantle an international drug smuggling operation.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey unveils a new plan for dealing with violence against women.
From DuvaR, the Turkish government is accused of hiding coronavirus statistics in order to attract tourists.
From Rûdaw, a woman in Iraqi Kurdistan fears that her husband and stepsons may have killed her transgender son.
From Armenpress, according to Armenian caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the circumstances of the 2020 Artsakh War must be thoroughly examined.
From In-Cyprus, there will be no graduation ceremonies in Cyprus due to the coronavirus.
From The Syrian Observer, after receiving donations from Strasbourg, France, a Turkish charity plans to build new houses for Syrians.
From The961, the Lebanese army donates diesel fuel to poor areas in the city of Tripoli. (This city should not be confused with the city of the same name in Libya.)
From Arutz Sheva, knessetcritter Abir Kara of the party Yamina causes a furor by voting twice "by mistake".
From the Egypt Independent, arf, ruff, good boy!
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia brings back almost 10,000 of its citizens from Saudi Arabia.
From the Saudi Gazette, the public transportation system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will start operating on September 1st.
From The New Arab, Pope Francis meets with 10 Lebanese Christian leaders.
From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei appoints a new judiciary chief, to replace president-elect Ebrahim Raisi in that position.
From Khaama Press, the Taliban tries and fails to seize the district of Ghorian in the Afghan province of Herat.
From India Today, the "Crocodile Rock" gets real in Kogilabanna, Karnataka, India.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh records its highest single-day coronavirus death toll.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka, Japan and the U.S. conclude the CARAT naval exercise.
From Yahoo News, "a direct trail of blood drops" leads from a hack on Twitter to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From The Jakarta Post, ASEAN sleeps with the enemy.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Lenggong Valley in Malaysia plans to use "Perak Man" and a meteor crater to promote the area as a possible national geopark.
From The Mainichi, according to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the Tokyo Olympics might be held without spectators due to the coronavirus.
From The Stream, loving gay people but not gay activism.
From The Daily Signal, how parents fight critical race theory in Loudon Country, Virginia.
From Space War, a new generation protests U.S. nuclear tests in the Pacific 75 years ago.
From Sino Daily, Chinese President Xi hails the "irreversible" rise of the Chinese Communist Party at its 100th anniversary.
From The America Conservative, not every place on earth is of vital interest to the U.S.
From The Western Journal, former First Daughter-In-Law Lara Trump has some harsh advice for hammer thrower Gwen Berry.
From BizPac Review, leftists fire up their double standards about First Ladies.
From The Daily Wire, U.S. media outlets celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
From the Daily Caller, Howard University releases a statement after its fine arts dean Phylicia Rashad makes a Tweet in support of Bill Cosby, who was just released from prison. (Rashad was his co-star on The Cosby Show.)
From the New York Post, a civil rights group sues for records on the use of facial recognition technology on visitors to New York state prisons.
From Breitbart, according to a poll, a majority of New Yorkers want "someone else" to be their governor instead of Andrew Cuomo (D).
From Newsmax, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) tells the ugly truth about the Chinese Communist Party. (Rubio's article was originally published yesterday in Newsweek, from which you can access a small number of articles each month without subscribing. Even though the story is thus really a day old, I find it too important to pass up.)
And from the Daily Mail, near Fukushima, Japan, radioactive wild boars mate with domestic pigs to produce a hybrid species.
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