Saturday Stuff

It's another sunny weekend, and another slew of thing going on:

From The Washington Times, a NASCAR driver loses a sponsor because his father said the N-word before the driver was born.

From the National Post, Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer explains himself.  (It's about time I included a Canadian source.)

From the Express, according to a U.K. economist, Prime Minister Theresa May has three options.

From the Metro, in Ireland, Pope Francis is greeted by a sea of rainbow flags.

From The Guardian, as the Pope listens, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar calls for the Catholic church to no longer be at the center of society.

From BBC News, under a new plan, English women will be allowed to take an abortion pill at home.

From the Independent, in the U.K., plastic bags will soon cost you 10 pence instead of 5.  (Where I live, stores charge 5 cents per plastic bag.  Last year when I was in Antwerp, Belgium, I had to pay 5 Eurocents for a plastic bag.  Although this bag tax is not universal, it appears on both side of the Atlantic.)

From the Daily Mail, residents of London's Notting Hill area barricade their homes to prepare for a festival.

From Deutsche Welle, a fire near Berlin appears to have been caused by arson.

From Radio Poland, the party currently governing Poland is easily out-polling its rivals.

From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic's president and prime minister meet to discuss appointing their new foreign minister.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian MPs keep missing their parliamentary sessions.

From Ekathimerini, the organs of a Greek-Egyptian man who died in China are used to save other patients.

From the Greek Reporter, Germany warns Greece to fulfill their post-bailout obligations.

From Russia Today, the Russian battle robot Uran-9 now includes flamethrowers.

From Sputnik International, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the U.S., U.K. and France are training militants to carry out a chemical attack.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Russia has reportedly made proposals to Turkey about the Syrian province of Idlib.

From Breitbrart London, Germany's president calls his country "a nation of immigrants".  (Germany has a president in addition to a chancellor, but the latter wields the real power.)

From Arutz Sheva, four Israeli activists claim to have been attacked by Jews wearing masks.

From Albawaba, a man kills himself at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

From the Vanguard, thousand of Nigerians attending the Hajj want to return home.

From American Thinker, a scientific look at Islamophobia.

From Gatestone Institute, will President Macron partition France?

From Townhall, more Americans should be concerned about the victims of illegal alien criminals.

From Fox News, a tourist bus crashes in Bulgaria, killing 15 passengers.

From Twitchy, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Tweet against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a "multi-leveled fail".

From Fox 8, seven people have been arrested in connection with toppling of the Silent Sam statue.  (via Fox News)

From the Washington Examiner, the DNC votes to limit the power of the party's superdelegates.

From The Verge, Infiniti brings out their new electric concept car.

And from People, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have made their lives a bit more ruff.  (via Fox News)