Congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) is now former congresscritter Santos. He has become the sixth representative to be expelled from the House, the first three getting the boot during the Civil War. He also becomes the first Republican to be expelled. The vote was 311-114 in favor of expulsion, well above the two-thirds supermajority requirement.
May the proverbial door not hit him in the dupa on the way out.
Read more at the New York Post, Politico, The Hill, ABC News and NBC News.
I have arrived at my undisclosed location at a family member's house and was not intent on blogging anything, but I could not ignore what happened earlier today in Niagara Falls, New York. A vehicle, believed to be a Mercedes, sped toward the U.S. border checkpoint on the Rainbow Bridge, which spans the Niagara River near Niagara Falls. It reportedly hit a concrete barrier, careened toward cars waiting to enter the U.S., and exploded, killing its two occupants. According to New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D), there's "no indication" that the incident was related to terrorism, but it is being investigated by the FBI, the New York State Police, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Read more at ABC News, CNN, AP News, Fox News and NBC New York.
As a cool cloudy Friday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, the U.N. Security Council renews is peacekeeping mandate for Western Sahara for another year.
From Hürriyet Daily News, more on the earthquake in the eastern Aegean Sea, in which 17 people in Turkey have reportedly been killed.
From Turkish Minute, still more on the earthquake.
From Rûdaw, Kurdish leaders welcome Germany's decision to keep their forces in Iraq.
From ArmenPress, according to Artsakh's Human Rights Defender's Office, Azerbaijan has been using phosphorous projectiles.
From In-Cyprus, a pro-abortion protest is planned for tomorrow outside the Polish embassy in Cyprus. (The text is very short, but I find the picture with its protest signs interesting. For example, the one farthest left says "no woman, no kraj". The Polish word kraj sounds exactly like the English word "cry", but means "country". Thus, the sign is a pun on the title of a Bob Marley song, but also means "no woman, no country". The sign at the bottom left, partially obscured by an umbrella, appears to say "strajk kobiet", the word strajk meaning and sounding like the English word "strike". Since kobiet is the genitive plural of kobieta, which means "woman", the sign translates to "women's strike". In the sign saying "pis off", the word "pis" with one "s" refers to "PiS", the acronym for Poland's governing party. The large sign which starts with "jarek", which might be a personal name, calls him kurwa, which means "whore". The rest of it says "I had to be on the beach".)
From The Syrian Observer, the Turkish army prepares to withdraw from another post in northern Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel offers assistance to Turkey after the earthquake.
From The Times Of Israel, ministers impose and extend coronavirus lockdowns in Arab towns in northern Israel.
From The Jerusalem Post, tens of thousands of volunteers start cleaning Israel's coasts, attempting the largest beach-cleaning project ever.
From YNetNews, the ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews face an "unprecedented crisis" as young people move away.
From the Egypt Independent, a vehicle hits five children, killing one, at a campaign rally in the Egyptian governorate of Beheira.
From Egypt Today, according to a military spokesman, Egypt has sent tons of medical aid to Iraq.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, a firm based in Dubai wins a contract to supply Ethiopia with 80,000 metric tons of wheat.
From the Saudi Gazette, the ancient site of AlUla will be reopened for visitors this weekend.
From The New Arab, under a new agreement, Israeli fruits and vegetables may be sold in the UAE.
From Radio Farda, U.S. forces seize Iranian weapons that were allegedly bound for Yemen.
From IranWire, according to her friends, the transfer of a British-Australian academic to Iran's Evin Prison is "not a victory".
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan celebrates Eid Miladun Nabi "with religious zeal and fervour".
From Khaama Press, local officials in the Afghan province of Uruzgan say that they have prevented the Taliban from taking over the district of Dehraud.
From The Hans India, police remove posters of French President Emmanuel Macron from a road in Mumbai, India.
From the Hindustan Times, tensions continue along the border between the Indian states of Assam and Mizoram.
From ANI, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates some dam lighting in the state of Gujarat.
From India Today, India will participate in this year's Malabar joint naval exercise under "non-contact, at sea only" conditions.
From the Dhaka Tribune, tens of thousands of Muslims in Bangladesh protest against Macron.
From the Daily Mirror, the new ambassador from China arrives in Sri Lanka.
From Maldives Insider, travel firms in the U.K. report a surge in bookings to the Maldive Islands after a travel corridor is established between the two countries.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian authorities arrest a fugitive suspect in a bribery case involving a Supreme Court secretary.
From The Straits Times, Japan eases travel restrictions for Singapore and eight other countries and regions.
From the Borneo Post, a new coronavirus quarantine and treatment center is set up in the Malaysian territory of Labuan.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Selangor plans to change its laws to impose heavier penalties on river polluters.
From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phus hosts U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
From The Mainichi, the order of each country's athletes marching in the opening ceremony for next year's Tokyo Olympics will be determined according to the Japanese language.
And from Gatestone Institute, China is an "existential threat to America".
