From The Hill, President Trump says, "Calm down and enjoy the ride".
From Politico, Trump invites leading congresscritters for a briefing on the wall. (We don't need no educat.....oh wait, not THAT wall.)
From National Review, the extremes of wealth and education in California, as the middle class flees.
From the Washington Examiner, Trump says that 2019 will be "fantastic" for those not deranged about him.
From American Thinker, why open borders are absurd.
From FrontpageMag, myths and true history about pre-Castro Cuba.
From the Financial Times, Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated as the president of Brazil.
From Voice Of Europe, four refugees injure 12 people in Amberg, Germany. (If you read German, read the story at Focus.)
From Deutsche Welle, a man drives his car into groups of pedestrians in two German cities.
From the NL Times, New Year's bonfires go out of control in Scheveningen, Netherlands. (via Voice Of Europe)
From Dutch News, four people die during New Year's festivities in the Netherlands. (If you read Dutch, read about one of them who died in Enschede at Tubantia.)
From the Express, London Mayor Sadiq Khan causes outrage with "anti-Brexit" fireworks.
From BBC News, a knife attack at Manchester's Victoria railroad station is investigated as a terror incident.
From the Mirror, as the Manchester Victoria attacker was put into a police car, he reportedly shouter "Allahu akbar".
From the Independent, more on Mayor Khan's London fireworks. (via Voice Of Europe)
From the Daily Mail, a man having dual Palestinian and American citizenship is sentenced to life in prison for selling property to a Jewish group.
From The Conservative Woman, let them eat potatoes.
From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is concerned about possible external interference in this year's E.U. elections. (Again, I welcome any suggestion on how to pronounce "Taoiseach".)
From Global News, a panel of Canadian MPs recommends that criminal pardons should be automatic for some offenders.
From France24, amid tight security, thousands celebrate New Year's in Paris.
From RFI, French authorities stop a group of 14 migrants from traveling to Britain on a stolen boat. (For those of you who wish to liken the migrants to Jesus, would Jesus and his followers, some of whom were fisherman and thus familiar with boats, actually steal a boat? Please bear in mind that as devout Jews, they would have been well aware of the commandment against stealing.)
From Swiss Info, Switzerland's new or amended laws for 2019.
From the Malta Independent, 70,000 people celebrate New Year's in Valletta, Malta.
From Malta Today, the Maltese army rescues 249 migrants from NGO boats, but 49 are still aboard them.
From Total Croatia News, Croatia's new or amended laws for 2019. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Večerny List, whose name means "evening letter", if my knowledge of the similar language Polish allows me an educated guess.)
From Ekathimerini, rough weather doesn't stop illegal undocumented migrants from heading to Greece's Aegean islands.
From the Greek Reporter, how Greece will benefit from the East Med natural gas pipeline.
From Sputnik International, according to the family of an American detained in Moscow, he was in Russia to attend a wedding.
From Radio Poland, Poland celebrates the New Year with festivities and laser displays.
From Radio Praha, Czechs welcome the New Year with optimism.
From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian cabinet aims to maintain the country's security.
From Hürriyet Daily News, a German man attending his mother's funeral in Turkey has been barred from leaving the country.
From Turkish Minute, in 2018, 112 journalist were sentenced to prison in Turkey.
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Honduran President Hernandez discuss opening embassies in each other's country.
From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu also meets with U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo.
From The Times Of Israel, Jerusalem's new mayor wants mosques to have quieter loudspeakers.
From AhlulBayt News Agency, Syrian authorities find two Roman-era sculptures in former ISIS hideouts.
From The Express Tribune, authorities in Punjab arrest 18 drug pushers near educational facilities. (If you ever want to ruin your life and spend a long time in prison, trying to sell illegal drugs in a Muslim country would be an effective way of doing so.)
From Gatestone Institute, how multiculturalism is transforming the U.K.
From ABC 10, about 150 migrants attempt to climb the border fence, while some throw rocks at Border Patrol agents. (via Legal Insurrection)
From Fox News, the Border Patrol uses tear gas to defend themselves.
From Click Orlando, a two-year-old girl is injured by a rhino after falling into its enclosure. (via The Daily Caller)
From the Billings Gazette, Montana's Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission mistakenly builds a latrine on private land. (via the New York Post)
And from The Babylon Bee, every father in the U.S. tells his child(ren) an all-too-obvious fact.
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