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ICE detains 86-year-old French woman three months after her American husband died

16 April 2026 at 09:41

The story of 86-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Thérèse Ross is extraordinary. It began with an American pilot; a childhood sweetheart whom she married a year ago, 60 years after meeting him. Now, however, things have taken a turn for the worse, as the elderly woman finds herself in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, three months after becoming a widow.

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Marie-Thérèse Ross.
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The United States needs Europe and NATO, despite Trump’s onslaught

12 April 2026 at 04:00

The world is beginning to lose count of the times Donald Trump has threatened in recent days to abandon NATO and leave his European allies in the lurch for refusing to follow him in his poorly planned military adventure in Iran. This is especially true because they have restricted the use of military bases on European soil — not only Spain, but also France, the United Kingdom, and even Italy have placed limits or conditions on the use of these facilities or prohibited military aircraft from flying over their airspace en route to the Middle East — for a war about which they weren’t even warned. The U.S. president’s threats have been so numerous that his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, warned him this week: “If the commitment is questioned every day, it loses its meaning.”

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A US Air Force Boeing C-17A at Ramstein Air Base on April 2.
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