Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who was first elected in 1976, has announced that he will retire at the end of his current term. He is currently the longest serving (to the extent that the term "serving" is even applicable) Republican member of the Senate. Some media outlets are reacting by suggesting that former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who now lives in Utah, might run for Hatch's seat.
Read more at The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Hill and KUTV.
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In other news and opinion (with some of my own commentary and contextual information):
From RedState, don't oppose President Trump just to oppose him. (The article points out, correctly in my opinion, that the mixture of oppression, religious zealotry and tyranny which the left thinks that Trump and his allies wish to impose in the United States is actually what's going on in Iran.)
From AhlulBayt News Agency, Iran's supreme leader blames "the enemies of Iran" for trying "to hurt the Islamic establishment". (This is the only thing I've found recently on ABNA that even hints at the present unrest. Since Iran has no real freedom of the press, I'm sure that this site can only say so much.)
From FrontpageMag, unlike Obama in 2009, "Trump sides with the protesters".
From Townhall, what no one, not even the right-wing media, are telling us about Iran.
From The Washington Post, a yuuuuge winter storm is expected later this week. (H/T Gulf Dogs, for putting this into the BTR chatroom of Southern Sense)
From the New Statesman, "how Germany's refugee dream soured".
From the Evening Standard, a man has been charged in the murder of a barmaid in the Finsbury Park area of London.
From Breitbart London, several types of violent crime have "massively" increased on Mayor Khan's watch.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungary's State Secretary for Government Communication Bence Tuzson says that those who attack his country want to tear out its roots. (This story comes via Voice Of Europe. If you read Hungarian, you can read it at Magyar Hirlap.)
From the Express, the president of the European Parliament urges his fellow Italians to vote against populism.
From Voice Of Europe, police and firefighters are attacked in migrant-dominated suburbs.
From The Local FR, France was "shocked" by New Year's attacks on police. (This story comes via Voice Of Europe, who note that more than 1,000 cars were torched.)
From Defend Europa, in Italy, a Somali migrant tries to rape a woman in labor. (If you read Italian, you can read it at Libero Quotidiano.)
From Russia Today, a German MP gets blocked on social media and investigated for an "anti-Muslim" Tweet.
From Deutsche Welle, German doctors reject mandatory age testing for refugees.
From the Daily Mail, in the United Kingdom, only one out of five asylum seekers who lie about their age is deported.
From National Review, those who accuse Poland of being "anti-pluralist" are hypocrites.
From The New Indian Express, a Hindu girl is targeted by a fatwa for reciting the Bhagwad Gita. (The Gita is part of an epic poem called the Mahabharata, which recalls a war between a set of five brothers called Pandava against their cousins, a set of 100 brothers called Kaurava, and consists mainly of a dialogue between Arjuna, the strongest of the Pandava, and his charioteer Krishna, who is an incarnation of the god Vishnu.)
From The Sun, an ISIS supporter takes selfies around New York.
From The Sasiat Daily, an Indian mufti disagrees with a recent decision to allow women to attend the Hajj without a male guardian.
From Gatestone Institute, if you want to see real female freedom fighters, look to Iran or to a certain chess player. (The author has - or at least uses - the same first name as the first wife of Mohammed. The last four stories were linked at The Religion Of Peace.)
From the New York Post, in Hertford, England, a woman lends police a helping foot.
And from Space(dot)com, the mystery of Jupiter's jet stream may have been solved.
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