On a cold and cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, according to a watchdog, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin took medications that could have affected his cognitive function when he was in sole command of the Pentagon.
From FrontpageMag, the Democrats never believed anything they said about President-elect Trump or the MAGA movement.
From Townhall, Democrats are terrified of FBI Director nominee Kash Patel holding that office, and maybe they should be.
From The Washington Free Beacon, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax's fight for free speech heads to a federal court.
From the Washington Examiner, President Biden "shuffles off the stage".
From The Federalist, five reasons why American corporations are getting rid of DEI.
From American Thinker, former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's deceitful timeline of the Capitol riot.
From MRCTV, 12 pro-life Americans targeted by Biden's Department of Justice seek pardons from Trump.
From NewsBusters, host Joy Behar of The View "already" misses Biden and blames the Chief Twit for world hunger.
From Canada Free Press, like she did in 2017, former First Lady Michelle Obama "will be sulking it out" on Trump's second inauguration.
From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejects Trump's proposal to create an external revenue service to collect tariffs. (Since when does a foreign leader have any say as to what agencies the U.S. government may or may not have?)
From TCW Defending Freedom, British activist Tommy Robinson and echoes of France's Dreyfus affair.
From EuroNews, the Bulgarian parliament approves a new center-right coalition government.
From ReMix, police arrest an Egyptian man and go on a manhunt for nine others after they allegedly gang rape a 19-year-old student outside a nightclub in Milan, Italy. (As you see in the article's top picture, the name of the nightclub might be appropriate for these guys. If you read Italian, read the story at il Giornale.)
From Balkan Insight, emigration and infrastructure problems hold back olive growers in Albania.
From the Greek Reporter, what was life like in Greece when it was part of the Byzantine Empire?
From Ekathimerini, a man serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend in Thessaloniki, Greece gets 30 more months for threatening his sister with a knife. (He might be hoping that no one ever proves reincarnation to be real.)
From the Greek City Times, the company METLEN Energy & Metals announces a €295.5 million investment to develop a production facility for bauxite, alumina and gallium in Agios Nikolaos, Greece.
From the Sarajevo Times, the parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina votes in favor of the Southern Interconnection. (The Southern Interconnection is a gas pipeline. The Federation is one of two entities which constitute the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)
From Total Croatia News, former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is set to attend the inauguration of former and future President Zoran Milanović. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)
From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia considers making a bid for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France. (The Grand Départ is the start of the bicycle race known as the Tour de France. For a related story, go to CyclingNews.)
From The Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela defends Magistrate Nadine Sant Lia from "attacks on the judiciary".
From SwissInfo, why Afghanistan's state assets remain frozen in a Swiss bank account.
From France24, French Prime Minister François Bayrou survives his first no-confidence vote.
From The Portugal News, a snow leopard fossil found in Porto de Mós, Portugal is studied by an international team of scientists.
From The North Africa Post, Algeria boycotts bananas from Ecuador after it withdraws from the Polisario Treaty and supports Morocco's plan for autonomy in the region of Sahara.
From The New Arab, the Arab world celebrates the aforementioned ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, a law student from Côte d'Ivoire who plotted an attack at a Paris train station is acquitted due to illness. (If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien.)
From The Jerusalem Post, according to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, Hamas attempts some last-minute changes to the aforementioned ceasefire.
From The Times Of Israel, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya praises calls the ceasefire a defeat for Israel while praising his group's attacks on October 7th, 2023.
From Gatestone Institute, is Trump caving to China about the platform TikTok?
From Radio Free Asia, Uyghur activists welcome the Biden administration's listing of 37 more Chinese companies for ties to slave labor in the region of Xinjiang.
From The Stream, the U.S.'s health policy needs a "shakeup".
From The Daily Signal, how woke Governor Gavin Newsom (D) dismantled California's volunteer firefighting units.
From The American Conservative, Governor Ron DeSantis (R) picks Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to replace Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio in the Senate.
From The Western Journal, female Democrat Senators pecking at Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth ignore a Marine Corps study of women in combat. (Their treatment of Hegseth reminds me of the women in this scene from The Music Man.)
From BizPac Review, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre concludes her stint as the "nation's top DEI liar".
From The Daily Wire, Trump's team types his promise to "make American strong again".
From the Daily Caller, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy (D) changes her mind about leaving emergency shelters open for illegal aliens after a large drug bust.
From the New York Post, what's causing women under 50 to get cancer 82 percent more than men of the same age group.
From Newsmax, Trump nominates Pulte Capital CEO Bill Pulte to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
And from Breitbart, announcer and former baseball player Bob Uecker goes to the broadcast booth in the sky.
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