President Donald J. Trump has announced plans to significantly reduce U.S. troop levels in Europe, exceeding the 5,000-troop withdrawal already ordered from Germany on Friday.
President Donald J. Trump’s plan to cut U.S. troop levels in Europe beyond an initial 5,000-man withdrawal from Germany could face resistance from Congress. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: On Saturday, President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to significantly reduce the presence of U.S. troops in Europe , exceeding the 5,000 initially withdrawn from Germany on Friday. The withdrawal of 5,000 troops is scheduled to take place over the next six to 12 months, according to the Pentagon. The President’s mention of “cutting a lot further than 5,000” comes as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 introduces a binding provision that prevents the Pentagon from cutting the number of U.S. troops in…Open
State of the Union: The struggling budget airline collapsed Saturday due to skyrocketing fuel prices. The post Iran War Drives Spirit Airlines Out of Business appeared first on The American Conservative .
Budget carrier Spirit Airlines officially shut its doors Saturday, laying off its employees and cancelling all flights after rising fuel costs pushed the struggling company over the brink. The price of jet fuel has spiked since the American–Israeli war on Iran started in late February, leaving Spirit—which had already declared bankruptcy twice in less than two years—unable to sustain its business operations. “The sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative but to pursue an orderly wind-down of the Company,” CEO Dave Davis said in a statement released Saturday. Davis added that the company required “hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit…Open
PENSACOLA, FL — Local man Steve Jacobs reported receiving a hospital bill this week that contained nothing but a photo of a sad-faced Mr. Monopoly with his pockets turned out.
VIDEO SYNTHESIS / Why is “Little Marco” Rubio schlepping over to Rome this week, with his tail between his legs, to seek to “thaw relations” — the MSM’s term, not mine — between the US and Italy/Holy See? If #NotMyPope and #PhoneyMeloni want to “thaw relations”, THEY should acknowledge they have treated POTUS badly and THEY should go to DC to apologise. Little Marco should CANCEL this trip immediately — if it goes ahead, on these terms, the only thing it will achieve is to signal POTUS is not worthy of their RESPECT. SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/marco-rubio-visits-rome-pope-leo-us-italy-relations…
Topping the list on Monday was Farhan Ahmed of Pakistan, who was previously convicted of first-degree manslaughter with intent to cause serious physical injury.
