Wednesday Whatever

Since, according to a certain song, this is my United States of whatever, here are whatever things are going on:

From The Texas Tribune, the policeman who arrested Bob O'Rourke after his 1998 DWI crash says that O'Rourke tried to flee.  (via The Daily Caller)

From KTVU, in more recent bad driving news, a man runs into eight people with his car, before hitting a tree.  (via Fox News)

From NewsBusters, Twitter plans to ban "misleading information" in 2020.

From Reason, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) wants to raise the fees for gun purchases.

From CNS News, the U.N. Human Rights Council's reaction to the Sri Lanka attacks is worthy of Sergeant Schulz.

From The Federalist, human traffickers are making billions on illegal immigration.

From American Thinker, "the uncovered" supporters of President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the University of Delaware will not open their archive on former Vice President and Senator Joe Biden (D-Del).

From the Washington Examiner, more people have been arrested at the border in fiscal 2019 than in all of fiscal 2018.

From National Review, we should advise young people against taking out loans that they can't afford.

From Townhall, GMU snowflakes can't deal with Justice Kavanaugh teaching a course - 3,668 miles away from campus.

From FrontpageMag, how Buzzfeed covered for people who cheered the Notre Dame fire.

From Breitbart, according to an immigrant from Venezuela, there's nowhere to go if the U.S. becomes socialist.

From Gatestone Institute, "why Palestinian leaders encourage terrorism".

From Reuters, the death toll in Sri Lanka reaches 359.

From the Edmonton Sun, why the Sri Lankan attackers did it.

From CBC News, are Canada Border Services Agency personnel, or even its passport readers, biased?

From Global News, one of the "worst" anti-Semitic hate crimes to occur in Winnipeg, Canada might have been faked.

From CTV News, according to a former sex researcher, the personalized license plate "GRABHER" would not cause sexual violence.  (The owner of the vehicle has the surname "Grabher".)

From Mexico News Daily, in three months, 300,000 migrants have entered Mexico.  (I have 2 MND pages left this month.)

From The Straits Times, a look at the Sri Lanka bombers, well-educated people from well-to-do families.

From BDNews24, British diplomat Simon McDonald states that the U.K. desires a "good relationship" with Bangladesh.

From Khaama Press, in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, ISIS terrorists kill 5 Taliban terrorists.

From Dawn, an "anti-polio panic" has broken out in parts of Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Supreme Court has restored a tax on mobile phone cards.

From Pakistan Today, about 3,400 Pakistanis are imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.

From Radio Farda, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wants to have a prisoner exchanged with the U.S.

From Rûdaw, Germany hands a hospital in Erbil, Iraq to the Peshmerga.

From Arutz Sheva, Chabad missionaries are assaulted in a home invasion in Nairobi, Kenya.

From The Times Of Israel, a Roman milestone in the Golan Heights reveals the name of an obscure emperor.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel concludes a naval exercise with Greece and the U.S.

From YNetNews, Israel is "a long way from electronic ballots".

From Egypt Today, Egypt and a U.K. company sign an agreement that's literally for the birds.

From Morocco World News, the leader of a Moroccan political party promises to find a political solution to Western Sahara.

From The Portugal News, Lisbon will host the Global Exploration Summit in July.

From El País, the return of ISIS terrorists threatens European security.

From ANSA, Lazio fans hang a banner honoring Mussolini in Milan, Italy.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's transalpine Gotthard Tunnel is temporarily closed to a fatal accident.  (During a trip to Switzerland in 1996, my tour bus was caught in a traffic jam in that tunnel.)

From Total Croatia News, about 6,500 Croatian policemen have been deployed to protect against illegal migration.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci is expected to testify on the deportation of six Turks.

From Ekathimerini, police in the Greek region of Attica bust a drug ring that was importing heroin from Iran.

From the Greek Reporter, the Central Archaeological Council of Greece approves an environmental study for a large construction project.

From Novinite, Bulgarian police start checking all guest houses built with E.U. money.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's Foreign Ministry objects to U.S. President Trump's statement about the Armenian genocide.

From Turkish Minute, Russia will start delivering its S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey in July.

From Russia Today, Russia completes a successful trial of a floating nuclear power plant.

From Sputnik International, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un tastes his first Russian food.

From The Moscow Times, President Putin makes obtaining Russian citizenship easier for people in eastern Ukraine.

From the Hungary Journal, the Hungarian foreign ministry provides aid to Sri Lanka.

From Daily News Hungary, former Hungarian House Speaker Katalin Szili calls the European elections a battle between pro-migration and anti-migration forces.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian governing parties widen their lead in a new poll.

From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban visits Kazakhstan on his way to China.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini will visit U.S. President Trump at the White House.

From Radio Praha, Marine Le Pen from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands will speak in Prague.

From Radio Poland, protesting teachers obstruct traffic in Warsaw.

From Deutsche Welle, a study shows that southern Germans are better off then their northern counterparts.

From the NL Times, an LBGTQ group wants to ban an American preacher from entering the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, Dutch MPs from both the right and the left want to fine people who have a religious wedding before a civil one.

From VRT NWS, the area around the North Station in Brussels has become unsafe.

From France24, French President Macron announces measures to deal with the unrest from the "yellow vest" movement.

From RFI, for the first time, France commemorates the Armenian genocide.

From the Irish Examiner, when in Ireland, please do not feed the birds.  (Twopence a bag....)

From the (Irish) Independent, hundreds of mourners pay their last respects to journalist Lyra McKee.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Tories fail to kick Prime Minister May out of office.

From the Evening Standard, a second Change UK candidate withdraws from the European election due to an offensive Tweet.

And from the Daily Mail, the human tongue can detect odors.