Thursday Tidings

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the SUV that crashed and killed 13 people in California was part of a human smuggling operation.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden unveils a policy honoring murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was a friend of Osama bin Laden.

From Townhall, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) fires back at Biden's "Neanderthal" comment.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's nominee for a defense undersecretary position attacked the Republican Party on Twitter.

From the Washington Examiner, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes her first majority opinion.

From The Federalist, cartels and human smugglers require would-be illegal aliens to wear wrist bands.

From American Thinker, what we know and don't know about what happened at the Capitol on January 6th.

From CNS News, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland approved an abortion for a teenage illegal alien in the U.S.

From LifeZette, HHS Secretary-designate Becerra's nomination is in trouble.

From NewsBusters, networks "yawn" at Biden's "Neanderthal" comment.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats press a second "insurrection" threat from alleged over-zealous Trump supporters.

From Global News, Canadian oil producers set aside millions of dollars to deal with potential losses arising from the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline.

From TeleSUR, at least 64 Mexican politicians have been murdered since September 2020.

From The Conservative Woman, the cruelest coronavirus legacy is terrified children.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. counter-terror police have foiled three attacks since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish government is urged to protect meat plant workers.

From The Brussels Times, people endure waits of up to three hours at Belgium's largest coronavirus vaccination center.

From Dutch News, 15 parties could win seats in the next Dutch parliament.

From ReMix, the Polish party Law and Justice needs a third term to make its changes last.

From Free West Media, the Czech Republic circumvents the E.U. by buying coronavirus vaccine from Russia.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government announces a strict two-week coronavirus lockdown.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at InfoStart.)

From Euractiv, Hungary plans to shut down its last coal-fired power plants by 2025.

From Sputnik International, Russian authorities prevent a terror attack in the region of Kaliningrad.

From The Sofia Globe, some facts about Bulgaria's upcoming parliamentary elections.

From Ekathimerini, daily new coronavirus cases in Greece are still above 2,000.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Vetevendosje Movement wins 58 seats in the Kosovo parliament.

From Balkan Insight, free speech become collateral damage in the fight against the coronavirus.

From Malta Today, according to a witness in the trial of three teenagers accused of hijacking the El Hiblu 3, the captain calmed them down by saying that he would take them to Malta.

From EuroNews, Italy blocks the export of coronavirus vaccines from the E.U. to Australia.

From RFI, one in five species in France are reportedly threatened with extinction.

From Turkish Minute, according to a survey, a majority of Turks disapprove of President Erdoğan's performance.

From The Syrian Observer, 31 murders have occurred so far this year in Syria's Al-Hol refugee camp.

From The Times Of Israel, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the coronavirus is "behind us".

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Court of Cassation upholds a three-year prison sentence given to Anas Al-Fekki, who was information minister under the last President Hosni Mubarak.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, at least 20 migrants die after smugglers throw them into the sea off Djibouti.

From The New Arab, Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have launched a missile that his an oil facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

From IranWire, the prosecutor who exposed Iran's and Hezbollah's infiltration into Argentina.

From Pakistan Today, according to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan desires to strengthen its trade relationship with the E.U.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian state of Punjab records its highest one-day increase in coronavirus cases in almost five months.

From the Daily Mirror, the decapitated body of a woman is found in a street in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From Hype, a transgender person in Malaysia receives death threats for wanting to leave Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, Arabs warn U.S. President Biden that they don't want "another Obama".

From The Straits Times, Singapore advises its citizens in Myanmar to get out of there.

From the Borneo Post, the driver of a trailer that crashed into a bridge structure on a Malaysian highway tests positive for drugs.

From Vietnam Plus, over 390 Vietnamese citizens get out of Myanmar.

From The Stream, are we learning the wrong lessons from what happened in Texas?

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's sanctuary policy leaves no safe spaces for federal agents and the victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens.

From HistoryNet, how one of America's smartest presidents crashed and burned.

From The American Conservative, it's time to bring our troops home.

From Fox News, why the world doesn't believe Biden when he say that "America First" is over.

From Breitbart, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) accuses Biden of "Neanderthal thinking" for allowing the release of over 100 coronavirus-positive illegal aliens into Texas.

From Newsmax, the WHO abandons its interim report on the origins of the coronavirus.

From AP News, the Capitol police request that the National Guard stays around for 60 more days.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Gothamist, former staffers describe working for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D).  (via The Daily Wire)

And from the New York Post, primates at the San Diego Zoo are vaccinated against the coronavirus, including an orangutan named Karen.