As we reach the first Friday in August, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the Democratic debates show how the Obama presidency has shrunk.
From FrontpageMag, James Bond is sacrificed on the altar of #MeToo.
From Townhall, a woman who deserves VIP seating at President Trump's rallies.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a mea culpa by TWFB about how many marijuana users Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) sent to prison. (It's even more than TWFB previously thought.)
From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Elijah Cummings claims to have scared away one of Baltimore's two-legged rats.
From The Federalist, how China tries to make its totalitarianism global.
From American Thinker, "President Trump shatters left-wing myths".
From CNS News, American employment hit a record high in July.
From LifeZette, getting children through the "storms of adolescence" requires parents.
From NewsBusters, The New York Times calls Chappaquiddick a "Kennedy family tragedy".
From CBC News, police in Ontario ask the public to refrain from spreading rumors about the two suspects wanted for murder.
From Global News, the RCMP investigates a "potential explosive device" at a waste facility in Red Deer, Alberta.
From CTV News, police in Regina, Saskatchewan investigate reports of two men being assaulted with coffee.
From The Jakarta Post, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coast of Java.
From The Straits Times, China claims to be ready to strike back against U.S. President Trump's new tariffs.
From the Borneo Post, the second panda born in Malaysia gets a name.
From Free Malaysia Today, according to a prominent writer, the Islamization of Malay literature has hindered the development of a national culture.
From The Mainichi, Japan decides against sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz.
From the Daily Mirror, several bombs go off in Bangkok, Thailand as a regional summit gets underway.
From the Colombo Page, the commander of Sri Lanka's navy makes an official trip to Russia.
From The Hans India, Indian forest officials arrest two suspected smugglers of red sander logs.
From the Hindustan Times, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 makes its fourth orbit-raising maneuver.
From ANI, three IEDs are found and diffused in Sukma, Chhattisgarh, India.
From India Today, in an encounter between Indian forces and terrorists in the Shopian area of Kashmir, each side loses one person.
From Khaama Press, in the district of Logar, Afghan Special Forces kill or wound dozens of terrorists, including Chinese and Chechen fighters.
From Dawn, U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad appreciates Pakistan's support for the peace process for Afghanistan.
From The Express Tribune, the U.S. seeks guarantees from Pakistan and Afghanistan against cross-border threats. (Meanwhile, the U.S. can't even secure much of its own border.)
From Pakistan Today, primary schools in Pakistan's province of Punjab go "from Urdu to English and back".
From Radio Farda, a "revolutionary court" in Tehran sentences three women to a total of 55 years in prison for "disrespecting compulsory hijab". (I won't hold my breath waiting for western feminists to speak up.)
From IranWire, Iran arrests an Iranian-Austrian businessman.
From Rûdaw, a 14-year-old Kurdish boy is shot dead by Turkish border guards.
From StepFeed, Saudi women celebrate being able to travel without male consent. (Not long ago, I wondered when the number of Saudi women who drive cars without a male guardian would exceed the number of Israeli woman who fly military jets. I'll admit that this day has arrived somewhat earlier than I had expected.)
From Egypt Today, Egypt and Ethiopia hold a meeting about a new dam under construction on the Blue Nile.
From Arutz Sheva, 6,000 Arabs riot (again) on the Gaza-Israel border.
From The Times Of Israel, Jordan closes Aaron's tomb after a group of Israeli pilgrims allegedly prayed there without permission.
From The Jerusalem Post, the above-mentioned rioters raise a flag with a swastika.
From YNetNews, in a crowded Syrian refugee camp, ISIS women are a persistent threat.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus starts a dog microchip program. (Good humans!)
From Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul kicks out illegal migrants and unregistered Syrians.
From Turkish Minute, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, Turkey has apprehended 177,654 illegal migrants this year.
From News(dot)com(dot)au, a radicalized prisoner in New South Wales is sentenced to 29 more years for carving an ISIS motto into a fellow inmate's head.
From Vanguard, a Nigerian imam lectures about homosexuality.
From The Daily Star, a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh indicts six Ansar al Islam leaders for murder.
From Quadrant, "Islam's crusade against free speech".
From Gatestone Institute, why are Palestinians opposing a new hospital in Gaza?
From Ekathimerini, the Athens Medical Association urges precautionary measures against the West Nile Virus.
From the Greek Reporter, a forgotten sculpture of Alexander the Great is found in a museum's storage room.
From Novinite, Bulgaria observes the 116th anniversary of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising against the Ottoman Turks.
From The Sofia Globe, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov speaks about Bulgaria's swine fever crisis, while farmers protest plans to kill their pigs.
From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria takes the first step towards building a gas hub.
From Romania-Insider, forensic anthropologists identify bones found in a barrel at a murder suspect's house in Caracal, Romania. (If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media.)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Bosnia politician Nikola Špirić, Bosnia and Hercegovina faces "two devastating problems".
From Total Croatia News, a Roma Holocaust remembrance ceremony is held at the Roma cemetery in Uštica, Croatia. (The Roma, a.k.a. Gypsies, were one of the groups thrown into the Nazi concentration camps.)
From the Malta Independent, a "mysterious" Maltese-registered boat is found abandoned in Libya.
From Malta Today, the NGO ship Alan Kurdi heads for Malta.
From ANSA, European Commision President Ursula von der Leyen tells Italian Prime Minister Conte that she wants a new immigration pact.
From SwissInfo, Germany's interior minister considers re-introducing checks on the border with Switzerland.
From France24, if you want to visit the Louvre in the future, you'll have to get a reservation.
From RFI, French farmers protest with fertilizer.
From El País, Spanish conservative parties reach a deal to govern the Madrid region.
From The Portugal News, the best and worst Portuguese roads.
From Morocco World News, Facebook deletes accounts used to make fake news about Morocco.
From Russia Today, what happened to seven hikers at Dyatlov Pass?
From Sputnik International, the U.N.'s secretary general urges the U.S. and Russia to find a "common path" for arms control.
From The Moscow Times, as parts of Siberia burn, protesters call for the resignation of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk region.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarians mark the Roma Holocaust memorial day.
From Hungary Today, von der Leyen Tweets that she had a "good talk" with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.
From About Hungary, more on the meeting between von der Leyen and Orban.
From The Slovak Spectator, is AI friend or foe?
From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic's foreign minister blames Russia for the collapse of the INF treaty.
From Polskie Radio, Polish scientists create the most precise map yet of the Milky Way.
From Deutsche Welle, more on Germany's interior minister wanting tougher checks on the Swiss border.
From Free West Media, Cottbus, Germany has a hard time dealing with migrants.
From Euractiv, Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz does not rule out a coalition with the far right.
From the NL Times, after 50 years, a "home away from home" for gay men in Amsterdam closes.
From Dutch News, Dutch police set up a discrimination hotline. (If you read Dutch, read the story at NRC.)
From VRT NWS, police in Asse, Belgium find a large cannabis plantation.
From EuroNews, the U.K. Tories lose a House of Commons seat from Wales.
From the Express, a Remainer turns out to be prescient on Brexit and Boris.
From the Evening Standard, a mysterious attacker pelts people in Barming, England with golf balls.
From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits villagers evacuated from the area near the Toddbrook Reservoir dam.
From the (Irish) Independent, a pipe bomb is found in a northern suburb of Dublin.
From the Irish Examiner, the predicament faced by an Irishman illegally in the U.S. shows how drug convictions can have lifelong consequences.
From The Conservative Woman, in the U.K., the problem is not Islamophobia but Muslims hating Muslims.
From The Stream, if Chick-fil-A is a bad place to eat, "the public didn't get the memo".
From Breitbart, Mexican federal police capture 13 cartel hitmen. (If you read Spanish, read the story at Excelsior.)
From Reason, "sales tax holidays are usually a ripoff".
From Twitchy, in reporting on President Trump's rally in Ohio, Jim Acosta mentions one protest sign but not another.
From Fox News, a memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing is close to completion.
From the New York Post, Coney Island knight fights are the real thing.
And from Insider, the letters in a new downloadable font are shaped like 26 gerrymandered congressional districts.
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