A New Royal Pregnancy And Other Stories

According to various British sources, Princess Kate, a.k.a. Kate Middleton, a.k.a. the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant for the third time.  Prince George (presumably the future George VII) and Princess Charlotte will soon have another sibling.  Their mother is a commoner, and thus the best thing, genetically speaking, to happen to the British royal family in centuries.  Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (grandparents of Kate's husband Prince William) are third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, who were first cousins.  Even so, the former WWII truck mechanic and her husband seem quite healthy for a pair of 90-somethings.  (Can President Trump or any of his recent predecessors repair a truck?  Yeah, I thought not.)  Even before Kate joined the family, the long-life gene seems to have already been very strong.

Read more at BBC News, the Express, the Mirror, the Independent and The Guardian.

And in other news:

From the New York Post, gunfire breaks out early in the morning before the J'Ouvert festival in Brooklyn.

From The Daily Caller, those arguing for DACA "put Americans last".

From HotAir, President Trumps kicks the DACA can down the road.

From National Review, a lesson on free speech from James Madison.

From Russia Today, the Polish defense minister accuses European leaders of wanting to "erase" the memory of what Poland suffered through in World War II.

From the Daily Mail, Muslim protesters and police clash in China.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, American warplanes are preventing an ISIS convoy from reaching Iraq.

From CBS Boston, fast food workers rally for higher wages.  (via Breitbart's Big Government)

From Breitbart London, German authorities are tipped off to 330 war criminals posing as asylum seekers.

From the NL Times, anti-Islam protesters are removed from the roof of a Dutch school.

From El País, unemployment rises in Spain.

From Newsweek, ISIS was planning an attack in London a year before the London Bridge attack.

From Arutz Sheva, Chinese authorities remove 1,000 loudspeakers from mosques.

From Legal Insurrection, Israel sends aid to Texas.

From the Los Angeles Times, the west end of the wall.

And from TechSideline, in a Sunday game at FedEx Field, the Virginia Tech football team wins their opener.