President Trump has been getting some criticism from two politically notable Mormons, and responding a bit thereto. One has been a governor and will be installed in the Senate tomorrow, while the other has retired from the Senate. Starting with these stories, here are some things going on:
From MSNBC, Senator-elect Mitt Romney (R-UT) has some harsh words for President Trump.
From CNN, Trump responds to Romney.
From The Week, will Romney try to primary Trump in 2020?
From The Federalist, Romney was not wrong to criticize Trump, but his reasons were.
From the Washington Examiner, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sides with Trump against Romney.
From The New York Times Magazine, former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has some words for Trump, and for some other people.
From American Thinker, some of California's ballot-harvesters, who helped flip the House blue, were DREAMers. (In many states, ballot-harvesting is illegal.)
From National Review, one of the few things still not politicized these days has four legs and wags its tail.
From Townhall, there was a time when Democrats supported border security.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Trump's agenda of deregulation has slowed, but is still going on.
From FrontpageMag, the next migrant caravan is already getting organized.
From Voice Of Europe, according to Prime Minister Orban, mixing Hungarian culture with Islam is not a good idea.
From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian opposition party Jobbik accuses their government of imposing austerity.
From About Hungary, Hungary raises its minimum wage eight percent. (Would that sort of thing happen under austerity?)
From Hungary Today, in Brazil, Prime Ministers Orban (Hungary) and Netanyahu (Israel) discuss a planned meeting between Israel and the Visegrad group. (Visegrad is a city in Hungary, but has a Slavic name which roughly translated means "upper fortress".)
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak Prime Minister Pellegrini addresses his country, saying that they "have built a mental Berlin wall". (Yes, the Slovak PM has an Italian name.)
From Radio Praha, Czech leaders call for greater civility during their New Year's Day messages.
From Radio Poland, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki predicts changes for the E.U. after this year's elections. (His last name refers to the region of Moravia in the Czech Republic.)
From Deutsche Welle, in the wake of attacks by refugees in Amberg, Germany's interior minister calls for stricter deportation laws.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands recalls all of its F-16 fighter jets from Syria.
From Dutch News, the bonfire on a beach in Scheveningen may have violated permit rules. (Scheveningen is a district of The Hague.)
From VRT NWS, Belgian Interior Minister Pieter De Crem denounces the violence against fire fighters and police on New Year's Eve.
From the Express, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has a "key message" for all Brexit supporters.
From the Independent, the number of peers in the House of Lords needs to be reduced, say their own Speaker.
From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister May again tries to obtain concessions from the E.U. over the Irish backstop.
From Irish Examiner, Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party warns May that they expect her to keep her word.
From CBC News, a petition calls for the U.S. to give the Northwest Angle to Canada. (The Northwest Angle is a part of the American state of Minnesota separated from the rest of the U.S. by the Lake Of The Woods.)
From the National Post, the weapons Prime Minister Trudeau the Younger promised the Kurds are still sitting in a Canadian warehouse. (Just I have referred to the 43rd American president as "Bush the Younger", because his father once held the same position, I can likewise call the current Canadian PM as "Trudeau the Younger".)
From France24, in Iraqi Kurdistan, women strive to end FGM.
From RFI, will weakened French President Macron be able to get any reforms passed this year?
From El País, the number of migrants arriving in Spain by sea reached a record high in 2018.
From SwissInfo, the political issues on Switzerland's agenda for 2019.
From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini and Palermo Mayor Orlando clash over the former's security decree.
From the Malta Independent, the Sea-Watch 3, with 32 migrants on board, is given permission to move closer to Malta due to bad weather.
From Total Croatia News, the U.S. and Israel fail to reach an agreement about the sale of F-16s to Croatia. (If you read Croatian, read more at Večernji List and Jutarnji Vijesti.)
From Ekathimerini, a VAT discount given to five Aegean islands due to the number of migrants they currently host could be extended.
From the Greek Reporter, young Greek researchers produce a "breakthrough" electric racecar.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, FYROM's ratification of the treaty to change its name could lead to developments in Greece.
From Novinite, Bulgaria assumes the rotating presidency of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
From Russia Today, 32 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a building partially destroyed by a gas explosion.
From Hürriyet Daily News, an American delegation visits Ankara, Turkey to discuss evidence about the FETÖ group.
From Turkish Minute, Turkey indicts 14 suspected human smugglers for the deaths of three migrants.
From Arutz Sheva, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon files to register his new political party.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli ultra-Orthodox parties are reportedly talking about forming an electoral alliance.
From YNetNews, over half of the people immigrating to Israel in 2018 are not recognized as Jews.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's environment minister announces plans to protect natural areas in the Sinai and the Red Sea.
From Rûdaw, President Trump still wants to protect Syrian Kurds.
From Iraqi News, Iraqi troops in Nineveh destroy four tunnels dug by ISIS. (In Iraq and on the borders of Israel, terrorists seem to have developed a penchant for digging tunnels.)
From Dawn, the Pakistani army reportedly shoots down a spy drone from India.
From Gatestone Institute, what is the "Islamic University of Europe" teaching?
From Fox News, Trump unveils his poster inspired by Game of Thrones.
From The Daily Caller, the healthy economy and job market make recruiting more difficult for the Army.
From Twitchy, former PFC Chelsea Manning wants to abolish the presidency, even after receiving a commutation from a person holding that office.
From CNS News, the country reportedly jailing the most journalists is China.
From the Los Angeles Times, the illegal alien who allegedly killed Police Corporal Ronil Singh has been charged with murder.
And from Science News, the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule, recently visited by the New Horizons space probe, looks like a snowman.
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