Former Pakistan President Musharraf calls for ties with Israel to mitigate India crisis

Former Pakistan President Musharraf calls for ties with Israel to mitigate India crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 Pakistan has an opportunity to build relations with a willing Israel to counter India, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. He warned about the danger of war between the two nuclear-armed powers. “There is a need to break the alliance between India and Israel, and Pakistan could do it […]

House Democrats pass universal background checks, ban on private gun sales

House Democrats pass universal background checks, ban on private gun sales

by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 The Democrat-led House on Feb. 27 passed legislation requiring universal background checks and outlawing private gun sales. H.R. 8, or the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, passed by a vote of 240-190. Eight Republicans joined 232 Democrats in voting in favor of the bill. Just two Democrats voted […]

U.S. Attorney blasts Philadelphia’s ‘sanctuary’ policy in child rape case

U.S. Attorney blasts Philadelphia’s ‘sanctuary’ policy in child rape case

by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 A U.S. Attorney blasted “sanctuary city” policies in the case of an illegal immigrant who raped a 5-year-old girl after Philadelphia ignored an ICE detainer and released him. After being deported to his native Honduras in 2009, Juan Ramon-Vasquez was found back in the United States in 2014 by […]

Trump to Kim: North Korea has ‘unlimited’ economic potential

Trump to Kim: North Korea has ‘unlimited’ economic potential

by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 The United States is ready to help North Korea reach its economic potential, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 27 as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that […]

Kim-Trump summit? Cohen ‘ratfest’ is front and center for U.S. media

Kim-Trump summit? Cohen ‘ratfest’ is front and center for U.S. media

by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 While President Donald Trump was focused on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. corporate media put the spotlight on Washington, where a man who had lied to Congress was again testifying to Congress. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s […]

Report: Senior officials at Justice set high bar for FBI charges against Clinton

Report: Senior officials at Justice set high bar for FBI charges against Clinton

by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 The Obama administration Department of Justice closely coordinated with the FBI in setting an “unusually high threshold” for the agency’s prosecution of Hillary Clinton on charges of mishandling classified information on her private email server, a report said. In order for Clinton to be prosecuted, the DOJ under then-Attorney […]

Top Democrats celebrate on Twitter the death of Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Top Democrats celebrate on Twitter the death of Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 Several Senate Democrats, 2020 presidential candidates among them, tweeted in celebration after they defeated a bill Monday night which would have compelled doctors to provide babies who survive attempted late-term abortions medical care equal to that which would be given to any infant. Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse’s Born-Alive […]

Book: Democrat strategy aims to use immigrants to turn purple states blue

Book: Democrat strategy aims to use immigrants to turn purple states blue

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 The Democratic Party’s strategy to move purple states, such as Florida and Texas, into the blue column involves masses of immigrants streaming in through open borders and making sure the new arrivals, legal or not, are counted in the U.S. Census, a columnist wrote. That is why Democrats are […]

Nuclear-armed showdown: Indian airstrike kills 300 in Pakistan

Nuclear-armed showdown: Indian airstrike kills 300 in Pakistan

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 India’s government said its fighter jets destroyed a major terrorist camp in Pakistan on Feb. 26. More than 300 people were reportedly killed in the strike on jihadist group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s camp in Balakot, Pakistan. India had not carried out an airstrike in Pakistani territory since the Indo-Pakistan war over […]

Kim arrives from media-proof Pyongyang on a bullet-proof train

Kim arrives from media-proof Pyongyang on a bullet-proof train

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 After a 65-hour trek across China on his green, bulletproof train, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived at Dong Dang Railway Station at the Vietnam-China border at around 8:10 a.m. on Feb. 26. Accustomed to complete control of public information back home where the state media dominate, there was […]