Today is Black Friday, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. On Twitter, one of the hashtags is #NativeAmericanHeritageDay, apparently to recall some of them contributing to Thanksgiving, but I thought that such a day was intended to replace Columbus Day. Anyway, starting with something related to Black Friday, here are some things going on:
From Business Insider, Walmart tries and fails to contain Black Friday chaos. (The story comes via the New York Post, who caught some flak for initially including a picture of shoppers at a Target.)
From the New York Post, President Trump calls for a security package including funding for the wall.
From CNN, scientists at Harvard and Yale propose to thwart climate change by dimming the sun. (It's done by spraying chemicals into the earth's atmosphere. The story comes via Twitchy.)
From The Daily Caller, Saudi Arabia denies reported human right abuses.
From Breitbart, the price of crude oil falls to its lowest level in over a year.
From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that forbidding people to speak about something "will only backfire". (via Voice Of Europe)
From the Hungary Journal, the Sargentini report "condemns" Hungary for not taking in migrants.
From Hungary Today, Orban calls European institutions a "transport agency" for migrants.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary calls Romania's decision to re-collectivize the Szekler College "unacceptable".
From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš survives today's no-confidence vote.
From Radio Poland, experts will meet in Warsaw to debate climate change. (Wait a minute. I thought that the science was settled.)
From Deutsche Welle, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says that the current ban on deportations to Syria will stay in effect.
From the NL Times, poverty has decreased in the Netherlands.
From Dutch News, Dutch MPs are still waiting for a report about the U.N. migration pact.
From VRT NWS, Belgian businesses will soon no longer have to worry about the 1-Eurocent coin.
From France24, France sanctions 18 people over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From RFI, French businesses avoid mass consumerism today.
From the Express, the E.U. makes new demands over joint fisheries.
From the Evening Standard, eight suspected migrants are rescued from a dinghy near Dover, England.
From the Independent, more countries ban weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
From CBC News, according to new research, StatsCan has underestimated the number of babies born in Canada to non-residents.
From El País, Spain rejects an offer from the E.U. to create a separate declaration on Gibraltar.
From ANSA, European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici says that a deal on the Italian budget can be found. (via Voice Of Europe)
From the Greek Reporter, the Turkish foreign minister calls Muslims in western Thrace "Turks". (Thrace is an ancient region currently within northeastern Greece, southeastern Bulgaria, and the European portion of Turkey.)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, FYROM's government gives former Prime Minister Gruevski two new charges.
From Novinite, 17 people claiming to be Syrians are found on a freight train in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
From Sputnik International, the reason for helicopters flying over the Kremlin is revealed.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey uses a different name for Black Friday.
From the Turkish Minute, the rector of an Islamic university in the Netherlands disappears after a warrant is issued for his arrest.
From Arutz Sheva, a 95-year-old man is charged with accessory to murder for being a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
From Dawn, 32 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Pakistan's Lower Orakzai tribal district.
From Khaama Press, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says that the Afghan people do not want the Taliban back in power.
From the Nyasa Times, Muslims in Malawi disapprove of the county's refusal to make Mohammed's birthday a national holiday.
From ABC News (where "A" means "Australian"), a Muslim man refuses to stand in an Australian court as he is sentenced for aiding and abetting murder.
From The Times Of India, suicide bombers try attack the Chinese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan but are foiled by police.
From British Israel Communications and Research Centre, the Israeli Shin Bet uncovers a Hamas-linked terror cell in the West Bank. (Hamas is based in the Gaza area.)
From Gatestone Institute, the ECHR submits to the religion whose name means "submission".
From FrontpageMag, the difference between words and acts.
From National Review, campus religious groups must be free to choose their own leaders.
From The Washington Free Beacon, why hasn't anyone yet granted Asia Bibi asylum?
From The San Diego Union-Tribune, a small group breaks off from the migrant caravan. (via HotAir)
And from The Babylon Bee, a guide to Black Friday self defense.
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