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Spirit Airlines 'Bites The Dust' As All Flights Canceled The collapse of bankrupt Spirit Airlines is now official. After several failed attempts by the Trump administration to engineer a rescue package, including a proposed $500 million financing deal that could have left the U.S. government with control of up to 90% of the budget carrier, negotiations broke down late this week. By Saturday morning, Spirit had begun winding down operations, with all flights canceled and the carrier entering liquidation mode. The outcome marks the final flight for the budget airline, crushed by...

Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and transportation has created a self-reinforcing system where every new crisis produces more regulation, more spending, and fewer productive citizens.

The US military on Saturday conducted a drill in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, marking the first known US military exercise in the country since the January 3 attack to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The drill involved two US Marine Corps Osprey aircraft landing near the US Embassy in Caracas, which the US officially […]