On a partly sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Democrats play politics with the national debt limit, while having some options.
From FrontpageMag, killers have power over their victims, not the other way around.
From Townhall, Democrats try to provoke violence.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a federal judge blocks the new abortion law in Texas.
From the Washington Examiner, Democratic Senators announce a short-term deal to raise the debt limit.
From The Federalist, how illegal migrants are smuggled to the U.S. border.
From American Thinker, President Biden and the Democrats see a "catastrophic crash" in poll numbers.
From CNS News, according to Senator (and former football coach) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Facebook should be not allowed to censor speech.
From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Facebook stinks but so does the scam pulled by Democrats involving a "whistleblower". (via LifeZette)
From Red Voice Media, Pfizer requests U.S. government permission to administer coronavirus vaccines to children aged 5 through 11. (via LifeZette)
From NewsBusters, journalist Mika Brzezinski downplays Biden's polling numbers.
From Canada Free Press, are the Democrats acting like the Knights Templar?
From CBC News, an Amber Alert in the Canadian province of Quebec is called off after two children are found safe.
From TeleSUR, Mexico sends 129 Haitian migrants who were heading for the U.S. back to Haiti.
From TCW Defending Freedom, dealing with the U.K.'s "ConSocialists".
From Snouts in the Trough, hooray for Merck and the other pharma companies.
From the Express, the British company Tesco successfully deals with Brexit.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland will join the global deal to impose a minimum 15 percent corporate tax.
From VRT NWS, part of the River Zenne, in Brussels, Belgium, will flow above ground for the first time in 150 years.
From the NL Times, workers at the Keukenhof gardens near Lisse, Netherlands start planting tulip bulbs for next year. (Go to this blog's archives for May 2017 to see pictures from my visit to Keukenhof.)
From Deutsche Welle, three German parties start talks to create a possible coalition government.
From EuroNews, German politician Armin Laschet will stand down as the leader of the Christian Democratic Union.
From the CPH Post, pictures from this year's opening of the Danish parliament.
From Free West Media, Denmark, Sweden and Finland all ban the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, citing a risk of myocarditis.
From Polskie Radio, according to Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, some articles in E.U. treaties are against the Polish constitution.
From ReMix, how much would a border wall between Poland and Belarus cost?
From Radio Prague, the head of the Czech Republic's Financial Analytical Office is expected to be questioned by a parliamentary committee about information from the "Pandora Papers".
From The Slovak Spectator, a quarter of coronavirus-positive people in Slovakia are under 18.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary faces a shortage of tour guides.
From Russia Today, according to Lithuanian politician Vytautas Landsbergis, the Russian nation will collapse and Ukraine will regain the Crimean peninsula.
From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis argues that he has the right to designate Prime Minister Florin Cîţu for another term. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)
From Novinite, former Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov is the second Bulgarian mentioned in the "Pandora Papers". (If you read Bulgarian, read the story at BIRD.)
From the Greek Reporter, an 87-year-old woman in Pyrgos, Greece faces trial for shooting a burglar in her own home. (What is this "right to keep and bear arms" you speak of?)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, a delegation from Montenegro will take part in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
From Balkan Insight, the remains of five female suspected war victims are exhumed Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From Total Croatia News, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković expects a report from all relevant services about allegedly violent police pushbacks of migrants.
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian police search the home and offices of protest leader Zoran Stevanović.
From The Malta Independent, fishermen join the opposition to a proposed yacht marina in Marsaskala, Malta.
From ANSA, Italian politician Matteo Salvini and Prime Minister Mario Draghi meet after a "bust-up" over a tax bill.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Austrian man originally from Turkey is sentenced to two years in prison for threatening to cut if his wife's head if she doesn't wear a headscarf. (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)
From SwissInfo, the Geneva International Motor Show for 2022 is canceled.
From France24, survivors of the 2015 Bataclan terror attack in Paris recall playing dead.
From El País, the island of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands is struck by another earthquake and more destruction.
From The Portugal News, Portugal reports a record high number of students in its higher education system.
From Euractiv, progress stalls on the European Coalition's efforts against online hate speech.
From Morocco World News, Morocco unveils its new government and ministerial appointments.
From The North Africa Post, Tunisia closes a TV station backed by the party Ennahdha.
From the Libyan Express, Libya's High Council of State rejects an election law passed by the Libyan House of Representatives.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, over half of the coronavirus cases in Turkey are people under 30.
From Rûdaw, Christians in the neighborhood of Ainkawa in Erbil, Iraq welcome its upgrade to the status of district.
From Armenpress, Armenian ombudsman Arman Tatoyan presents to Pope Francis pictures allegedly showing the torture of Armenian captives by Azerbaijanis.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus and Poland sign a Memorandum of Understanding about science, education, culture and sports.
From The Syrian Observer, due to high fuel prices and low income, a motorbike taxi service is launched in Azaz, Syria.
From The961, the Israeli Mossad reportedly carries out a "failed" operation in Lebanon.
From Arutz Sheva, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemns a ruling by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court which allows Jews to pray silently on the Temple Mount.
From the Egypt Independent, preparations start for a quarantine clinic at the Berenice International Airport south of Marsa Alam, Egypt.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appoints Dr. Seleshi Bekele as the new dam negotiator.
From the Saudi Gazette, visitors will see some "dazzling surprises" at the Riyadh Season.
From The New Arab, Jordanian security services target Syrian refugees and journalists.
From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Afghan pilots tell of their escape from the Taliban and limbo in Tajikistan.
From Khaama Press, Afghanistan's electric company will sell the property of its debtors to pay off some of its own debt.
From ANI, a tri-service all-female cycling expedition reaches the National War Memorial in Delhi, India.
From the Dhaka Tribune, coronavirus-related deaths in Bangladesh drop to their lowest number in almost 7 months.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan government decides to discontinue price controls on gas, milk powder, wheat flower, and cement.
From Raajee, 14 people receive the National Award of Recognition from the Maldive Islands.
From Faith Freedom, today is the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto.
From The Jakarta Post, health protocols are enforced at the 20th National Games in the Indonesian province of Papua. (This province, formerly known as Irian Jaya, should not be confused with the nearby country of Papua New Guinea.)
From Free Malaysia Today, a hotel group asks the Malaysian government to strictly regulate Airbnb operators.
From The Mainichi, a magnitude-5.9 earthquake strikes near Tokyo.
From Gatestone Institute, communist Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.
From The Stream, some dirt on the Democrat "reconciliation" bill.
From The Daily Signal, due to political differences, Senator Socialism (I-VT) refuses to condemn the people who harassed Senator Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) in a bathroom.
From The American Conservative, don't compare today's coronavirus to the 1918 Spanish flu.
From The Western Journal, President Biden's latest gaffe.
From BizPac Review, New York's Mr. Bill, his family, and his staff are reportedly living the good life off misdirected campaign funds.
From The Daily Wire, the Facebook "whistleblower" is working with White House press secretary Jen Psaki's former PR firm.
From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Jim Banks (R-IN) demands that the NSBA explains why it believes that federal law enforcement officials should be involved in local education disputes.
From Breitbart, according to a survey, Americans plan to celebrate Halloween like they did before the coronavirus pandemic.
From Newsmax, after the aforementioned court ruling against the abortion law in Texas, some abortion clinics in the state resume their operations.
And from the New York Post, a man jumps from the 9th story of a high-rise in New Jersey, lands on a BMW, and lives.
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