As the year 2020 gets underway, here are some things going on:
From National Review, this year's presidential campaign is going to be even nastier than the one in 2016.
From FrontpageMag, a look at Islam in the U.S. and the West.
From Townhall, the response to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was the "anti-Benghazi".
From The Washington Free Beacon, American troops are recognized as Men Of The Year 2019 by TWFB.
From the Washington Examiner, the judge in Hunter Biden's paternity case recuses himself with no explanation.
From The Federalist, contrary to left-wing fears, Hispanics are not afraid of the citizenship question for the census.
From American Thinker, is the leader of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad a former guest in the Obama White House?
From CNS News, the supreme leader of Iran responds to President Trump.
From NewsBusters, watch (if you think you can stomach it) the top 10 worst liberal TV scenes broadcast in 2019.
From Canada Free Press, are the U.N. and some world governments involved in a "climate change crisis hypocrisy"? (The article links to an infographic from ClimateBrief showing coal-fired power plants.)
From CBC News, if you want to buy cannabis in Quebec, you must be at least 21 years old.
From Global News, gun-control advocates in Quebec want tighter rules on reference checks for firearm permits.
From CTV News, the new laws and rules in Canada for this year.
From TeleSUR, 15 inmates are killed in a fight in a Mexican prison.
From The Portugal News, over 500 women have been murdered in Portugal in 15 years.
From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to defeat the strikes against his pension reforms.
From RFI, France's ban on single-use plastics goes into effect. (During my 2014 visit to France, I used one of the vending machines at a road-side rest stop. It dispensed a drink into a plastic cup and then placed a plastic stirring rod into the drink. Sadly, I saw a lot of these cups and rods littering the ground. If this legislation applies to French rest stops, will these plastic cups and rods be replaced with their paper or cardboard equivalents, as in the U.S.?)
From SwissInfo, several Swiss cities ring in the New Year with "green" fireworks".
From the Malta Independent, 70,000 people celebrate the New Year in Valletta, Malta.
From Malta Today, why does a single bottle of Petrus wine cost thousands of euros?
From Total Slovenia News, changes to Slovenia's tax laws go into effect today.
From Total Croatia News, the Croatian government will upgrade its system against people smuggling and introduce a pension in 2020.
From Ekathimerini, the European emergency number is activated in Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, would anyone like some Vasilopita?
From Novinite, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev gives his New Year's address.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria will have five long weekends in 2020.
From Radio Bulgaria, have a "blessed and happy 2020".
From Russia Today, Ukrainian nationalists celebrate the New Year with a parade honoring a man regarded by Ukrainians as a hero, and by Poles, Jews and Russians as a war criminal.
From Sputnik International, Russian nuclear power plants generated a record amount of electricity in 2019.
From The Moscow Times, 2020 for Russia is expected to be "like 2019, but more so".
From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian President János Áder, preserving the natural world is everyone's responsibility.
From Hungary Today, how Hungarians celebrated the New Year during the 20th century.
From Radio Poland, Poland takes charge today of the NATO high readiness force.
From the CPH Post, a retired British trade attaché works to identify the remains of Danish soldiers.
From Deutsche Welle, train tickets in Germany become a bit less expensive.
From Free West Media, a volunteer is stabbed in a pastor's office in Aue-Bad Schlema, Germany.
From EuroNews, a fire at the Krefeld zoo in Germany takes the lives of more than 30 animals.
From the NL Times, 2020 starts in the Netherlands with fireworks and car fires.
From Dutch News, at least 50,000 people in the Netherlands start 2020 with a swim.
From VRT NWS, Bruges, Belgium replaces fireworks with a drone show, but mist reportedly caused "technical difficulties".
From the Express, U.K. citizens can still do six things in the E.U. after January 31st.
From the Evening Standard, York launches a plan to have the U.K.'s first car-free city center.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. got more of its energy from clean sources than from fossil fuels in 2019, for the first time ever.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish ISIS bride Lisa Smith is seen in public.
From the Irish Examiner, Irish President Michael Higgins starts 2020 by calling for unity on climate change. (When a politician calls for "unity" or says that people should "come together", it means "everyone drop your objections and do what I want you to do".)
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s double standard on religion.
From The Stream, an interview with historian Tom Holland on "how the Gospel changed everything". (This article is the first of a three-part series.)
From Fox News, a "bus-sized" asteroid will pass within 18,400 miles of the earth tomorrow.
From Reason, the FDA's ban on e-cigarettes is expected to have some exemptions.
From Axios, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D) is no longer the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. (It looks like I'll have to include the word "former" while linking stories about him. This story comes via the Daily Caller.)
From Breitbart, President Trump signs a law intended to end the backlog of untested rape kits.
From the New York Post, a Connecticut man livestreams his 100-mph car crash.
And from Breaking Burgh, Pope Francis warns that the next time a pilgrim gets out of line, he'll defend himself with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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