Jordan and Morocco to join White House backed economic conference

Jordan and Morocco to join White House backed economic conference

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2019 Jordan and Morocco have announced they will take part in the U.S.-backed economic workshop in Bahrain this month. The Trump administration is expected to release the economic component of its long-awaited “Deal of the Century” Middle East peace plan at the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop set for June 25-26. […]

Floating solar project in Seychelles? It’s sink or swim time for the Clintons

Floating solar project in Seychelles? It’s sink or swim time for the Clintons

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2019 Is the end of the Clinton dynasty nigh? For a power couple used to the political spotlight, 2019 is proving to be a tough year — and 2020 will most likely be even tougher. Still bitter and reeling from her 2016 presidential election loss, Hillary Clinton is finding […]

Japan’s Abe consulted with Trump on upcoming visit to Iran

Japan’s Abe consulted with Trump on upcoming visit to Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a discussion ahead of Abe’s planned trip to Iran on June 12-14, a Japanese official said. Abe will be the first Japanese sitting prime minister to visit Iran in 41 years, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. Suga […]

The John Dean show; NY Post pans Nadler’s ‘Trump-bashing’ production

The John Dean show; NY Post pans Nadler’s ‘Trump-bashing’ production

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler’s “show” hearing featuring John “Worse Than Watergate” Dean as a prop turned out to be a colossal flop, the New York Post said, noting that not even CNN carried the hearing live “because it can’t afford to bore its audience.” Nadler “has to […]

President Trump ‘hits back’ after NY Times, Pelosi seek to diminish Mexico deal

President Trump ‘hits back’ after NY Times, Pelosi seek to diminish Mexico deal

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 President Donald Trump took on the “failing” New York Times and “Nervous Nancy” Pelosi after they attempted to write off the effectiveness of his tariff threats in leading to a deal with Mexico to help secure the border. The New York Times reported that Trump’s new deal with Mexico […]

Ohio bakery wins $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College

Ohio bakery wins $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 The owners of an Ohio bakery were awarded $11 million in a libel suit against Oberlin College. Gibson’s Bakery and Market won the award after filing a lawsuit against the college in the wake of student protests that accused bakery personnel of racial profiling. On the day after the […]

Report estimates $4.7 billion is only a fraction of earnings Google takes from publishers

Report estimates $4.7 billion is only a fraction of earnings Google takes from publishers

FPI / June 12, 2019 Google in 2018 alone received $4.7 billion in revenue “from crawling and scraping news publishers’ content – without paying the publishers for that use,” a new study shows. “News is a key source on which Google has increasingly relied to drive consumer engagement with its products,” the nonprofit News Media […]

Facebook warns WorldTribune on AOC article

Facebook warns WorldTribune on AOC article

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 A WorldTribune.com article on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s exchange with an FBI official on domestic terrorism resulted in a warning from Facebook. In the article, Ocasio-Cortez is cited as using the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting and the 2015 murders of nine African Americans at a South Carolina church […]

One million Chinese take to the streets in ‘last fight’ for Hong Kong

One million Chinese take to the streets in ‘last fight’ for Hong Kong

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2019 More than one million people jammed the streets of Hong Kong on June 9 to protest the Chinese government’s proposed law that would allow the regime of supreme leader Xi Jinping to extradite people from Hong Kong to stand trial in the mainland. Organizers said it was the largest […]

Unreported: President Trump’s triumph in the UK

Unreported: President Trump’s triumph in the UK

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2019 While the dignitaries he actually went to meet with in Great Britain had nothing but praise for U.S. President Donald Trump, the corporate media elites “tried to generate offense at every interaction” the president engaged in, the former executive assistant for President Ronald Reagan said in an op-ed. Trump […]