On the last Monday in September, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) admits that the Democrats can slow down the confirmation of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett, but not stop it.
From FrontpageMag, author J.K. Rowling is accused of "Islamophobia" for depicting for depicting a criminal hiding in burqa.
From Townhall, what Democrats fear about fighting against Barrett's nomination.
From The Washington Free Beacon, former astronaut and current senatorial candidate Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has had a lucrative relationship with the Chinese government.
From the Washington Examiner, Second Amendment advocacy organizations applaud Barrett's nomination.
From The Federalist, Barrett disproves the left's lies about women.
From American Thinker, as Paul Harvey would say, "and here's the rest of the story".
From CNS News, as far as Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is concerned, Barrett's religion shouldn't matter.
From LifeZette, singer Bette Midler suggests that former Vice President Biden employ an usual debate strategy against President Trump.
From NewsBusters, Showtime's The Comey Rule is full of lies and fictional scenes.
From Canada Free Press, "America's clock is ticking", so "fight fiercely".
From CBC News, as coronavirus cases surge, the Canadian cities of Montreal and Quebec City are set to undergo their highest level of restrictions.
From Global News, the Canadian province of Ontario records its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases.
From CTV News, thanks to police in Vancouver, there will not be any British Columbia chainsaw massacre.
From TeleSUR, Argentina joins a treaty to protect environmental defenders.
From The Portugal News, according to experts, the coronavirus started in Portugal "long before" the first cases in the country were diagnosed.
From El País, the Spanish Supreme Court upholds an 18-month ban on Calatan Premier Quim Torra for disobedience.
From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
From RFI, right-wing party Les Républicains claims victory in France's senatorial elections.
From SwissInfo, how does Switzerland's vote against limiting immigration from the E.U. affect its relationship with the E.U.?
From ANSA, Italian scientists find liquid ponds under the south pole of Mars. (Hopefully, these will not turn out to be illusions like the "canals" on Mars, which were misidentified due to a mistranslation of the Italian word canali, which means "channels".)
From the Malta Independent, Malta plans to ask for the return of a prehistoric shark's tooth given by naturalist David Attenborough to U.K. Prince George.
From Malta Today, students at some schools in Malta return to class for the time since March.
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian police intercept large groups of migrants and arrest smugglers. (At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I must keep pointing out that migrants are not merely migrating, but are being smuggled.)
From Total Croatia News, six "breathtaking" cycling routes in Croatia. (If you read Croatian, read the story at TuristickePrice.)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, words of reconciliation are sent from Varivode, Croatia.
From Balkan Insight, Croatia commemorates the wartime massacre of Serbs at Varivode.
From Ekathimerini, Greek police investigate aid workers for allegedly facilitating the illegal arrival by migrants and their smugglers onto the island of Lesvos.
From the Greek Reporter, new lighting for the Parthenon will be unveiled this coming Wednesday.
From Euractiv, Greeks urges Turkey to investigate vandalism done to a mural of the Greek flag on the island of Kastellorizo.
From Novinite, 30 people are evacuated from a train in Bulgaria going from Sofia to Burgas after the locomotive catches fire.
From The Sofia Globe, President Rumen Radev vetoes amendments to Bulgaria's Electoral Code.
From Radio Bulgaria, organizers of several political events are fined for disobeying Bulgaria's coronavirus regulations.
From Romania-Insider, who is new Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan?
From Russia Today, Russian dissident Alexey Navalny confirms that German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited him at a hospital in Berlin.
From Sputnik International, hearings on the crash of flight MH17 are postponed until November 3rd.
From The Moscow Times, what is Russia's role in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
From Daily News Hungary, videos from above the airport in Budapest. (I flew into Budapest in 2000.)
From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary and Poland will set up comparative law institute for efforts against suppression of opinions by the left.
From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, "together, we will succeed in defeating the second wave of the coronavirus".
From The Slovak Spectator, a look at Slovakia's Orava Castle. (My 2000 tour group stopped near the castle to eat lunch.)
From Radio Prague, Czechs celebrate the feast of Saint Wenceslas.
From Polskie Radio, according to a spokesman, Poland's government will be reshuffled by early October.
From ReMix, LGBT activists in Warsaw unleash (pun intended) their inner canine.
From the CPH Post, police in Copenhagen close down a private party with over 300 guests. (If you read Danish, read the story at DR Nyheder.)
From Deutsche Welle, Germany starts a new search for a place to dispose of nuclear waste.
From the NL Times, wearing face masks is strongly advised in four Dutch cities.
From Dutch News, a bar in Medembrik, Netherlands is closed for two weeks after two community wardens are assaulted while trying to enforce coronavirus restrictions.
From VRT NWS, virologist Steven Van Gucht describes Belgium's latest coronavirus figures as "encouraging".
From The Brussels Times, a car brandishing neo-Nazi symbols joins a protest by the Flemish "far-right" party Vlaams Belang. (I regard the label "far-right" as deserving a bit of NaCl, since it seems to include things like wanting to have government policy determined by your country's elected leaders and not multinational organizations like the E.U. or the U.N.)
From Free West Media, an interview with the international relations advisor to the president of the breakaway republic Artsakh.
From EuroNews, the E.U. will consider "all legal options" if the U.K. breaches the Brexit treaty.
From the Express, the Scottish government starts a Brexit dispute by opposing a controversial trade law.
From the Evening Standard, a landowner is fined £12,000 after 300 people attend a wedding on his farm in Leeds, England.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish health authorities consider moving five more counties to Level 3 of Ireland's coronavirus protocols.
From the Irish Examiner, an Irish-born businessman with a new venture to service bird choppers foresees Ireland having a sustainable energy "gold rush".
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s future is neither Tory nor Labour.
From Snouts in the Trough, President Trump kicks China's rear end at the U.N., and other stories.
From The Stream, who is former Vice President Biden's real opponent?
From Fox News, Donald Trump the Younger weighs in on the upcoming presidential debate.
From The Daily Wire, Minneapolis's plant to defund the police reportedly collapses.
From The American Conservative, the suburban coronavirus head-fake.
From The Sacramento Bee, Cal State Long Beach locks down its campus in response to five positive coronavirus tests. (via Breitbart)
From Breitbart, Hollywood adds one more hell.
From the New York Post, a drone flies a donated human kidney 10 miles across desert in Nevada's Clark County.
From WPVI-TV, the northern lights could be seen tonight in the northern U.S. due to a solar storm.
And from The Babylon Bee, a copy of Biden's prep notes for the debate.
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