As the end of 2020 has almost arrived, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the Nashville RV bomber's girlfriend told police in August 2019 that he was building bombs.
From FrontpageMag, what a quote from Soviet leader and mass murderer Joseph Stalin reveals about the 2020 election.
From Townhall, some good news from 2020.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the media blackout on senatorial candidate Raphael Warnock (D-GA).
From the Washington Examiner, in 2020, the U.S. blocked $50 million worth of imports made by companies that used forced labor.
From The Federalist, President Trump invokes Saint Thomas Becket in defense of religious liberty, which should not be expected from President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris.
From American Thinker, Biden admits whom he really believes to have won the 2020 election.
From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal), who with her husband shares a nine-digit net worth, creates a panel to "combat the concentration of wealth in America". (I say "nine-digit" because I recently read something which said that the Pelosis are worth over $100 million. Even if that is inaccurate, and they're really worth something like $80 or $90 million, their eight-digit fortune would still be a concentration of wealth. This, of course, shows why I regard accusing politicians of being hypocrites is an exercise in redundancy.)
From LifeZette and the "I hope you're right" department, the two Georgia senatorial races look good for Republicans.
From NewsBusters, right-wing commentator Mark Levin takes his hike from Facebook.
From Canada Free Press, the Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election, but it's Trump's fault.
From Global News, primatologist Jane Goodall joins the call to move Lucy the elephant from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
From TeleSUR, Puerto Rican Governor-elect Pedro Pierlusi (New Progressive Party) presents his latest cabinet appointments.
From The Conservative Woman, in 2020, the Church "was as sharp as a marshmallow".
From the Evening Standard, three quarters of England will be under Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions starting tomorrow.
From ReMix, E.U. bureaucrats should have learned from Brexit, but didn't.
From the (Irish) Independent, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Ireland will enter Level 5 coronavirus restrictions.
From VRT NWS, police seize almost one ton of illegal fireworks in Koekelberg, Belgium.
From Dutch News, police are accused of racially abusing a mixed-race family while arresting them in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
From the CPH Post, a majority of the Danish parliament agrees to an expanded launch of the 5G network in Denmark.
From EuroNews, at least 10 people are injured by a landslide in Ask, Norway.
From Radio Prague, the Association for the Restoration of the Czech Kingdom raises money to make a copy of the St. Wenceslas Crown for a Habsburg descendant. (As a descendant of people who emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ruled by this guy's ancestors, I naturally oppose this effort.)
From Daily News Hungary, the Fidesz opposition in the Budapest city council accuses Mayor Gergely Karácsony of using citizens as "a means to power".
From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, Russia seeks to develop a hydrogen-fueled bus by 2023.
From Euractiv, Russia plans to revives its sobering-up stations in 2021.
From Romania-Insider, Romanians start welcoming the New Year in the traditional way.
From Novinite, President Rumen Radev expresses the sympathy of the Bulgarian people for the Croatian people.
From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities impose a full lockdown on the island of Kalymnos due to a spike in coronavirus infections.
From Malta Today, Malta will start banning the importation of single-use plastics starting on January 1st.
From SwissInfo, the Swiss government decides against imposing more coronavirus restrictions.
From Free West Media, according to the daily Le Parisien, the mayor of the Paris suburb Saint-Denis has withdrawn subsidies for the Journal de Saint-Denis.
From The Portugal News, Olieros, Portugal installs a collection system for used cooking oils.
From Turkish Minute, the jailed wife of a Turkish police chief involved in corruption and bribery is reportedly denied medical treatment.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Supreme Court decides against the extradition of a woman wanted in Russia.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel is running out of coronavirus vaccine doses.
From Egypt Today, the Cairo Criminal Court sentences the two killers of the "Maadi Girl" to death, while clearing a third defendant.
From The New Arab, an explosion at the Aden, Yemen airport kills at least 16 people and injures 60 others.
From IranWire, do the Iranian people really want former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in office?
From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani Minister for Interior Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif's passport will be canceled on February 16th.
From Khaama Press, Afghan President Ghani reportedly asks public health minister Ahmad Jawad Osmani to resign.
From the Hindustan Times, India's federal government tells airport operators to draft standard operating procedures for transporting coronavirus vaccines.
From the Daily Mirror, three Ukrainian tourists test positive for the coronavirus while in Sri Lanka.
From Vice, Bangladeshi police use an anti-porn law to crack down on a movie about gender violence.
From CGTN, jihadists attack a village near a gas plant in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
From the Borneo Post, police in Malaysia believe that a meat cartel allegedly using fake halal labels includes both foreign and domestic syndicates.
From Gatestone Institute, China uses the coronavirus to overtake the U.S. economy.
From The Stream, 2020 has seen crises in trust and in truth.
From Sino Daily, China sentences 10 Hong Kong activists to three years in jail.
From Space War, when John Majors was prime minister, the U.K. was worried about going into a second war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. (This war did indeed occur, when Tony Blair was prime minister.)
From Fox News, President Trump's executive order restricting guest worker visas will soon expire.
From The Daily Wire, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) warns Austin Mayor Steve Adler (D) against imposing new coronavirus restrictions on restaurants.
From Breitbart, a ProFa group in Seattle demands that the city government pay their hotel rents.
And from India Today, a nurse in Indonesia is suspended after having sex with a coronavirus patient in a hospital bathroom.
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