Report: China offers Iran $3 billion oil deal as Europe halts purchases

Report: China offers Iran $3 billion oil deal as Europe halts purchases

by WorldTribune Staff, January 18, 2019 Looking to take advantage of a U.S. sanctions waiver, China’s Sinopec has offered $3 billion to Iran to develop the Yadavaran oil field, a report said. The Chinese state-run energy company reportedly told its Iranian government-owned counterpart, the National Iranian Oil Co., that it wanted China’s share of the […]

Top Obama aides ordered to testify under oath

Top Obama aides ordered to testify under oath

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 A federal judge has ordered several Obama administration officials, including top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to answer under oath Judicial Watch’s questions regarding the Clinton email and Benghazi scandals. In rejecting the State Department’s and Department of Justice’s objections to Judicial Watch’s court-ordered discovery plan […]

Manufactured crisis? Skeletons and prayer rugs in the desert

Manufactured crisis? Skeletons and prayer rugs in the desert

by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2019 The grim discovery of the skeletons of 127 dead migrants in southern Arizona in 2018 and reports of a significant increase in OTMs (other than Mexicans) crossing the U.S. southern border contradict the major media’s and Democrats’ assertion that the illegal immigration situation is a “manufactured crisis.” The Trump […]

Down and dirty: Democrat darlings sling MS-13 lingo, homophobic slur

Down and dirty: Democrat darlings sling MS-13 lingo, homophobic slur

by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2019 Two newly-minted Democratic lawmakers are under fire after comments this week that included violent sexual terminology and pushing baseless rumors about a Republican senator being blackmailed to support President Donald Trump. In a Jan. 16 interview published by The Washington Post in which she claimed media often take her […]

Tax cuts seen fueling continued economic boom

Tax cuts seen fueling continued economic boom

by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2019 Fueled by President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, a large majority of U.S. business owners say they are likely to hire more workers in 2019, a new poll found. A second poll found that investors remain optimistic for the long-term despite Wall Street’s huge year-end dip. A Zogby Analytics survey […]

Israel’s Netanyahu ‘advises’ Iran on presence in Syria: ‘Get out fast’

Israel’s Netanyahu ‘advises’ Iran on presence in Syria: ‘Get out fast’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 After scoffing at Iran’s claim that its military personnel were only in Syria as advisers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he “advised” Iran to “get out” of Syria – now. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahrem Qasemi had claimed that “Iran does not have a military base and military […]

Trump said to be holding a ‘shutdown’ card that would drain the swamp

Trump said to be holding a ‘shutdown’ card that would drain the swamp

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 As of today, Jan. 16, the partial shutdown of the U.S. government is in its 26th day. In four more days, a threshold will be reached which will enable the permanent layoffs of federal workers who have been furloughed for 30 days or more. Swamp – meet drain. Has […]

Organizer of new migrant caravan arrested in Honduras on rape charge

Organizer of new migrant caravan arrested in Honduras on rape charge

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 One of the organizers of a new caravan of migrants that seeks to reach the U.S.’s southern border has been arrested by police in Honduras on a rape charge. Honduran authorities confirmed the arrest of 26-year-old Juan Carlos Molina. The authorities said Molina is one of the main organizers […]

Laughter is the best medicine: Dave Barry recalls a year to forget

Laughter is the best medicine: Dave Barry recalls a year to forget

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 The year 2018 was one messed up 365 days, humor columnist Dave Barry noted. The good news, at least it wasn’t a leap year. “What made this year so awful?” Barry asked in his 2018 year in review column for McClatchy Newspapers. “We could list many factors, including natural […]

Truth in the city of lies: President confronts nation on illegal immigration

Truth in the city of lies: President confronts nation on illegal immigration

by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2019 The United States has “long tolerated illegal immigration by those who survive the rigors of people-smuggling or exploit loopholes by towing small children along,” but President Donald Trump’s blunt approach to the crisis at the border is making it harder for Congress to, as it has for years, look […]