Trump was reportedly surprised by the number of US troops stationed in Germany and expressed interest in pulling some of them out

The US Defense Department is reportedly analyzing the cost-to-benefit ratio of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of US troops in Germany. Trump, who has had a tenuous relationship with the German chancellor Angela Merkel, was said to have been surprised by the number of US troops stationed there. Some US officials were said to have […]

Military approach on Syria should be ‘expressed to terrorist states’ – Israeli PM

Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his “full” support for US-British-French strikes on Syria, which he says conveyed a “message” of “zero tolerance for the use of non-conventional weapons,” according to Israeli media. During a phone call with his British counterpart Theresa May, he said that the same policy should be applied to “terrorist states and organizations” […]

Johnny Manziel expressed interest in the new XFL and it backfired immediately

Jason Miller/Getty Images Johnny Manziel appeared to express interest in joining Vince McMahon’s newly announced reboot of the XFL in 2020. Unfortunately for Manziel, just moments after his plea, McMahon specified that the league would have specific character requirements that would likely bar Manziel from every playing. On Thursday Vince McMahon announced his intention to […]

A man who was convicted of killing a man who expressed romantic interest in him on national television was released from prison

Getty Images/Joshua Lott JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man convicted in the 1995 killing of a man who expressed romantic interest in him on national television has been released from prison. The Michigan Department of Corrections says 47-year-old Jonathan Schmitz was released from a prison Tuesday in Jackson. Schmitz was 24 when an acquaintance, […]

‘Outside the realm of normal,’ ‘crazy’: James Comey is said to have expressed worries about Trump before his firing

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Former FBI director James Comey was reported to have been at odds with President Donald Trump, long before his abrupt dismissal on Tuesday.  The New York Times reports that after Trump had made the widely discredited allegation that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower prior to his inauguration, an astonished Comey […]