Thursday Links

As Hurricane Florence starts hitting the east coast, and maybe raining on the city of Florence in South Carolina, here are some other things going on:

From CBS Boston, in three suburbs of Boston, dozens of homes burn from gas explosions.

From The Federalist, according to a study, half of all teenage transgender girls have attempted suicide.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Planned Avoidance of Parenthood's new president is the first doctor to lead the organization in almost 50 years.

From LifeNews, under their new president, will PAoP continue to sell body parts from aborted fetuses?

From National Review, the Trump administration settles lawsuits by reconsidering asylum claims of over 1000 parents and children who crossed the border illegally.  (NR uses the term "immigrant", but I will not, because people who cross the border illegally are not true immigrants.  At best, they are refugees or asylum seekers.)

From Townhall, a new projection shows the GOP keeping control of the Senate.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Alan Dershowitz, President Trump is not an unindicted co-conspirator.

From Voice Of Europe, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells us who he thinks are the racists.

From Radio Praha, a Czech pilot celebrates Czechoslovakia's centennial by flying around the world.  (He did this even though there's no Czechoslovakia anymore.  The story comes via Voice Of Europe.)

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak parliament approves a one-off holiday to celebrate Czechoslovakia's centennial.

From The Local SE, a center-left coalition narrowly wins the Swedish elections.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From ANSA, Italy's public debt is called "a problem" within the Eurozone.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Radio Poland, in the dispute between Hungary and the E.U., Poland sides with Hungary.

From VRT NWS, in Belgium's Brussels region, 71 percent of the people have foreign roots.

From the NL Times, she don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie.

From Dutch News, His Holiness addresses sexual abuse by clerics.  (This story is not about the Pope and Catholic priests.  If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Deutsche Welle, police remove environmental activists and their treehouses in Germany's Hambach Forest.

From France24 and perhaps the "what could go wrong?" department, France will introduce driverless trains by 2023.

From El País, the Spanish congress gives their assent to checking to see if Francisco Franco is still dead.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece expects to have a seaplane network operating in 2019.

From Russia Today, a Russian Ombudsman asks President Trump to pardon a Russian citizen caught in a DEA sting.

From Sputnik International, Russia will examine the cost effectiveness of a bridge connecting Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi lawyers have been reportedly threatened or arrested for representing accused ISIS suspects.

From the Express, Hurricane Helene heads toward Britain and Ireland.

From the Independent, a no-deal Brexit could render U.K. drivers licenses invalid in the E.U.

From the Daily Mail, a no-deal Brexit could take a third off U.K. home prices.

From Al Arabiya, Morocco introduces a law design to protect women from harassment and violence.

From The Seattle Times, a German teenager has been arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb a gay night club.

From Gatestone Institute, in Germany, stifling dissent about mass migration.

From the New York Post, Pope Francis accepts the resignation of a bishop based in West Virginia.

From Breaking Burgh, the president promises to send "only the best" paper towels to victims of Hurricane Florence.

And from Twitchy, SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh meets the Inquisitor Kaiju.