BBC News | Spain is to start suspending Catalonia’s autonomy from Saturday, as the region’s leader threatens to declare independence.

Reuters | On the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, U.S. stocks are at a record high.

Washington Post | Trump is betting he can pressure Congress into breaking its gridlock and squeeze some concessions from Democrats.

Daily Mail | Scientists discover the mind still works after the body shows no sign of life and reveal people have heard their own death announced by medics.

Daily Mail | Homeland Security chief says jihadists are working on a ‘big explosion’ and want to bring down planes to inflict mass civilian casualties.

Breitbart | Esteemed feminist author and scholar Camille Paglia argued that Women’s and Gender Studies Departments should be defunded in a recent conversation with Professor Jordan Peterson.

Breitbart | The front of a police station in Helsingborg, Sweden, was demolished by explosives shortly after midnight Wednesday morning.

Daily Caller | Both the House and the Senate are investigating whether the former President Barack Obama’s administration used intelligence in a salacious “Trump Dossier” as “evidence”.

Sputnik News | Pyongyang could stage an unprecedented strike on the US at an unexpected time, the North Korean state run news agency KCNA warned on Thursday.

Zero Hedge | Somewhere in the mountains near Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne lies a hidden underground vault containing a vast fortune.

Zero Hedge | 8 of the 10 worst funded states in America just happen to be “deep blue” bastions of liberalism.

RT | The furore surrounding the solar system’s theoretical ‘Planet 9’ reached new heights after a University of Michigan researcher discovered evidence that may shed light on the existence of the elusive world beyond Neptune.

RT | President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont says the region will push for independence if dialogue with Madrid fails.

Information Liberation | A 30-year-old “transgender” man who believes he’s a woman went on trial Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a bathroom in Wyoming.

Louder With Crowder | Leftists claim to have the market cornered on caring and compassion