Bloomberg: China’s biggest-ever foreign acquisition frenzy is ending almost as dramatically as it began. After stunning the world with a record $246 billion of announced outbound takeovers in 2016, Chinese [Read More]

  Libs are so original. WFB: A billboard depicting President Donald Trump as a Nazi in downtown Phoenix, Ariz. was funded with taxpayer dollars, according to Judicial Watch. The conservative [Read More]

DC: Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski slammed White House adviser Kellyanne Conway for being “politics porn” Friday. “Note to CNN: Sorry, I love CNN, but you’ve got to stop putting [Read More]

USA Today: More than two decades after their son was killed by Hamas in Israel, an American couple will file suit Friday in their relentless effort to crush groups that [Read More]

WREG: WEAKELY COUNTY, Tenn. — A Weakely County woman was arrested after reportedly following Congressman David Kustoff Office: Representative (R-TN 8th District) and then threatening him. Police say Wendi Wright [Read More]

It just never ends for United- WTKR: HOUSTON – A United flight was delayed for hours Thursday after reports of a scorpion crawling from a passenger’s clothes – the beleaguered airline’s second [Read More]

ROME (AFP) –  Behind the high fences of the repatriation centre at Ponte Galeria, just down the road from Rome’s Fiumicino airport, dozens of women sit outside, waiting for word on [Read More]

OC Register: A video shot from an Orange County Sheriff’s Department helicopter gives an overhead view of great white sharks hanging around near shore in Capistrano Beach as officers warn [Read More]

4:35 p.m. Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week. That’s according to an aide to the committee’s chairman, GOP [Read More]

Miami (AFP) – The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly among people in their 20s, researchers said Thursday. [Read More]

SF Chronicle: Here’s another story to add to the negative avocado coverage: Beyond the skyrocketing costs and exorbitant avocado toast prices, avocados are also a ruiner of hands (for a [Read More]

h/t Doc. via Bamboo Bob

Nice work by The Plantain. I’m sure there are leftist chitpickles out there that fully expect this Trump appointment. ht/ wiscodave

Copenhagen (AFP) – Denmark’s Jewish community has filed a complaint over an imam accused of calling for the murder of Jews in a case sparking political opprobrium, it emerged Thursday. [Read More]

Breitbart: Tennessee became one of the first states on Tuesday to pass legislation designed to stem the assault on free speech at its public universities. The eight page Campus Free Speech [Read More]