On a Saturday falling on a date where the day and the month have the same number, here are some things going on:
From National Review, an appeals courts asks if Judge Emmet Sullivan should be disqualified from the case of retired General Michael Flynn.
From Townhall, cancel culture goes into outer space.
From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Biden's family has some taxing problems.
From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) might not get to speak at the Democratic national convention.
From The Federalist, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) is fined $10,800 for violating campaign finance laws in 2018.
From American Thinker, do some black Americans owe reparations to others?
From LifeZette, ICE personnel find the most impressive tunnel ever running under the border between Arizona and Mexico.
From NewsBusters, remember what your taxes are paying for on PBS.
From Canada Free Press, China exploits globalism and intrusive technologies.
From Global News, according to an opinion column, Canadian Governor General Julie Payette should resign.
From TeleSUR, social activists and trade union members continue to block Bolivian highways.
From The Mainichi, Osama, Japan cracks down on pigeon feeding due to the resulting droppings.
From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese embassy in the U.S. gives face masks to my state.
From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia donates money for relief efforts in Lebanon.
From The Straits Times, Hong Kong will offer free coronavirus tests to all its residents.
From The Jakarta Post, Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupts after staying quiet for a year.
From Maldives Insider, the coronavirus lockdown in the Maldive Islands has allowed the island of Amilla to bring forth more organic fruits and vegetables. (This is the same island in a story I linked yesterday, telling how it may be rented in its entirety.)
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka elects 64 new parliamentcritters.
From the Hindustan Times, Indian and Chinese military commanders hold talks in the Depsang area of the region of Ladakh.
From Dawn, the World Bank declines to mediate in a dispute over water between Pakistan and India.
From Khaama Press, intra-Afghan talks are set to start in Doha, Qatar after an agreement to release 400 Taliban prisoners.
From Radio Farda, according to the Kurdish human rights group Hengaw, the Iranian Supreme Court has upheld death sentence given to a Kurdish political prisoner.
From The New Arab, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi orders militias to be expelled from the city of Mosul.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi authorities arrest three people for allegedly smuggling hashish in a truck.
From the Egypt Independent, the UAE and Bahrain welcome the maritime border agreement between Egypt and Greece.
From The Times Of Israel, thousands of Israelis gather in a new round of demonstrations against Prime Minister Netanyahu.
From YNetNews, students in the Gaza Strip go back to school.
From In-Cyprus, the mayor of Aradippou, Cyprus will be charged for not wearing a mask.
From Panorama, all Armenian media except public TV reportedly covered Amulsar events on Friday. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to a U.S. report, the PKK terror group recruits child soldiers.
From Morocco News, the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat exhibits major milestone in the art history of Morocco.
From The Sun, an Islamic group claims to have vigilantes embedded in 37 Nigerian states.
From NewsHub, foreign media covering the sentencing of the Christchurch mosque shooter are placed under restrictions.
From the Daily Times, according to an imam, Pakistan is facing a locust attack from India.
From Gatestone Institute, has Iran become China's newest colony?
From The Portugal News, Portuguese ministers highlight the use of drones in fighting fires.
From France24, U.K. Home Minister Priti Patel calls on France to intercept more migrants trying to cross the English Channel.
From EuroNews, Paris makes face masks mandatory on some of its streets.
From SwissInfo, Swiss paleontologists solve the mystery of the long-necked dinosaur Tanystropheus.
From Total Slovenia News, anti-government protests continue in the Slovenian municipalities of Ljubljana and Izola.
From Total Croatia News, the world's largest statue of St. Vincent protects the Ludbreg, Croatia Wine Road.
From Balkan Insight, the mystery of the killing of nine elderly and disabled civilians at a school in Dvor, Croatia remains unsolved 25 years later.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek authorities consider canceling the Thessaloniki International Fair due to the coronavirus.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian police promise to remove tent camps set up by anti-government protesters.
From Russia Today, protests continue in Khabarovsk, Russia for the fifth week, but with smaller crowds.
From Daily News Hungary, an "out of control" woman is arrested at a café in Budapest for allegedly shouting anti-Semitic slurs at people. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at !!444!!!.)
From The Slovak Spectator, a look at Kráľova Hoľa, the highest hill in Slovakia's eastern Low Tatras.
From Radio Prague, the number of illegal migrants detained by Czech police increased in 2019 from a year earlier.
From Polskie Radio, according to Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland and the U.S. will sign their new defense agreement on August 15th, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. (August 15th is also an important solemnity for the Catholic Church, which is the largest religious group in Poland.)
From Deutsche Welle, hundreds of people protest coronavirus-related restrictions in Stuttgart, Germany.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, asylum seekers are integrated into the German work force worse than expected.
From the NL Times, as many people head toward Dutch beaches, officials warn against crowding and the heat.
From The Brussels Times, a "massive" fight breaks out between young people and police at a beach in Blankenberge, Belgium.
From Free West Media, two Formula 1 race drivers refuse to kneel for BLM.
From the Express, Scottish nationalists stage a protest demanding that "English clear out".
From the (Irish) Independent, more Irish counties are expected to lock down due to spikes in coronavirus cases.
From The Conservative Woman, the left loves the coronavirus.
From The Stream, the head of the Church is Christ, not Caesar.
From WAPT, three suspects are arrested in the shooting death of an off-duty Mississippi Highway Patrol officer. (via Fox News)
From the New York Post, New York City Councilman Paul Vallone (D) claims that hydroxychloroquine saved his life from the coronavirus.
From the Daily Caller, President Trump signs for executive orders intended to provide coronavirus relief.
From The Daily Wire, the left's next target in its war on history is civil war battlefields.
From AP News, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) travels to Delaware to meet with former Vice President Biden, to possibly become his running mate. (The story comes via Breitbart, which points out that she just mandated self-lockdowns for people exposed to anyone with a sore throat.)
And from Science Alert, SpaceX launches 57 new satellites having controversial sun shades.
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