Stories For Juneteenth

On a cloudy Juneteenth, which will henceforth be a federal holiday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republicans start working for 2022 and beyond.

From Townhall, a former Trump official "slices" (figuratively) Dr. Fauci over hydroxychloroquine.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats can learn a lot from Republican presidents if they want to eradicate AIDS.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Alderman Raymond Lopez (D), the violence in Chicago is the result of gang life, not racism.

From The Federalist, what a woman learned from her father about manhood, and why it matters.

From American Thinker, leftists worry that wall-supporting rhetoric might lead to more mass shootings, but ignore crime resulting from unguarded borders.

From CNS News, how U.S. agents apprehended one of Italy's most wanted terror suspects, with the help of an American actor.

From LifeZette, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) slams the Supreme Court's decision to reject a challenge to Obamacare, but is not surprised.

From NewsBuster, why hasn't TV host Jimmy Kimmel been cancelled?

From Canada Free Press, there is no intention to make the coronavirus go away.

From Global News, Canada hits coronavirus vaccination milestones.

From The Conservative Woman, the way forward in the U.K. is "nerd immunity".

From the Evening Standard, soccer stadiums in London are transformed into giant coronavirus vaccination clinics.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Tánaiste Leo Varadkar sets a goal of building 40,000 new homes per year.  (My spellchecker has no problem with "Tánaiste", even with the accent over the "a", but objects to the man's last name.)

From The Brussels Times and the "decolonization" department, the Africa Museum in Tervuren, Belgium will return stolen artworks to the Democratic Republic of Congo.  (Although the article does not use the Congo's full name, I'm inferring that this would be the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a Belgian colony, as opposed to the other Congo, which was a French colony.)

From Free West Media, a socialist bundestagcritter experiences "diversity" first hand in Munich, Germany.

From EuroNews, a pride parade returns to Warsaw, Poland.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban accuses the E.U. of creating a "European superstate".  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at InfoStart.)

From Sputnik International, four people are killed in the Russian region of Kemerovo.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's Central Elections Commission signs a contract with the company Ciela Norma for voting machine support.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's military chief of staff pays tribute to an air force lieutenant who went down in a dogfight with Turkish planes in 1992.

From Malta Today, according to Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne, no new coronavirus cases have been detected today in Malta.

From Italy24News, a Slovenian in Gorizia, Italy is found to be infected with mouse fever.

From RFI, beaches on the French island of Corsica reopen after an oil spill.

From The North Africa Post, the airline Royal Air Maroc launches a route between Dakhla, Morocco and Paris, France.

From Turkish Minute, a headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is firebombed in the Turkish province of Diyarbakır.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel insists that a shipment of coronavirus vaccines rejected by Palestinians was "perfectly" sound.

From Egypt Today, the U.S. gets concerned by the dam issue.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian Red Cross receives 100,000 coronavirus vaccine doses from China.

From The New Arab, the Egyptian army allows villagers from the Egyptian region of North Sinai to return home after years of fighting against ISIS.

From IranWire, the election of Ebrahim Raeesi as Iran's next president "signals darker days ahead".

From CNN, more on Iran's presidential election and its winner.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani Supreme Court has two vacant seats.

From the Afghanistan Times, the Taliban capture two districts in northern Afghanistan.

From India Today, according to Air Force chief Bhadauria, the induction of 36 Rafale fighter jets is proceeding on schedule.

From the Daily Mirror, scenes from a deserted urban area in Sri Lanka.

From The Straits Times, according to Singapore's Ministry of Health, a woman who died of a heart attack a day after receiving her first coronavirus vaccine dose was not allergic to it.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian army plans to build a field hospital in the territory of Labuan to accommodate the increasing number of coronavirus patients there.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese authorities find illegal immigrants in the provinces of Cao Bang and Long An.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration's policy on Iran is "all carrots, no stick".

From The Stream, on Juneteenth, true American history should be celebrated.

From the eponymous site of Wayne Dupree, photos of a banquet thrown by Vice President Harris show a lack of diversity among the guests, but not among the servers.  (via LifeZette)

From The Daily Signal, on Juneteenth, we must commit to protect the integrity of our elections.

From The American Conservative, a "canticle" for Dr. Fauci.

From The Western Journal, former President Trump's supporters are not a cult but the opposite of one.

From the New York Post, Tropical Storm Claudette hits the Gulf coast.

From The Daily Wire, according to an opinion column, fatherlessness is "America's top domestic problem".

From Newsmax, the body of an American student is found in Bor, Russia and a man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

From Breitbart, the U.K.'s Border Force reportedly turns off its tracking and radio systems while picking up migrants in the English Channel.

And from the Daily Caller, RIP, First Dog Champ.