‘The way a master owns a slave’: Court-enforced ‘guardianship’ of seniors emerges as national issue

‘The way a master owns a slave’: Court-enforced ‘guardianship’ of seniors emerges as national issue

by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 At least 1.5 million adults in the United States are under the care of guardians and, critics say, are trapped in a flawed system which controls everything from a person’s finances to visits with family members. In North Carolina, Ginny Johnson described how, just three months after her 95-year-old […]

Iran’s ‘new’ fighter jet said to resemble 1960s-era U.S. F-5

Iran’s ‘new’ fighter jet said to resemble 1960s-era U.S. F-5

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 A new fighter jet which Iran says was domestically designed and manufactured looks a lot like the U.S. F-5, which was designed by Northrop in the 1950s and used by the U.S. since the 1960s, observers say. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami were […]

Russia seethes as Finland says it could join NATO

Russia seethes as Finland says it could join NATO

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2018 Finland has indicated that it could join NATO, a move that would enrage Russia which would consider it an encroachment on its sphere of influence, a report said. President Sauli Niinisto on Aug. 25 said that Finland’s NATO membership is a possibility, Yle Uutiset television reported. Traditionally neutral Finland and […]

Gilder optimistic despite ‘Google Marxism’ and its roots in student loan program ‘blunder’

Gilder optimistic despite ‘Google Marxism’ and its roots in student loan program ‘blunder’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 George Gilder, whose 1981 book “Wealth and Poverty” championed the free market and influenced Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics, laments the era of “Google Marxism” which aims to make the human mind obsolete. But the author of “Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the […]

Judge backtracks, rules U.S. government does not have to accept new DACA requests

Judge backtracks, rules U.S. government does not have to accept new DACA requests

by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2018 In a reversal of a previous order, a U.S. district judge ruled the government does not have to accept new requests for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Illegal aliens who were brought into the U.S. as children, known as “Dreamers,” can renew their DACA applications, but […]

UN to China: Release Uighurs from re-education facilities

UN to China: Release Uighurs from re-education facilities

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Aug. 30 called on China to immediately release Muslim Uighurs from alleged re-education camps. The committee cited estimates that up to one million Uighurs are being detained on the “pretext of countering terrorism” in re-education centers in China’s far […]

Bracing for Mueller: Giuliani, Stone hope for best, prepare for worst

Bracing for Mueller: Giuliani, Stone hope for best, prepare for worst

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 While Rudy Giuliani said he is working on a report on the legitimacy of the Robert Mueller investigation, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone said he expected to charged with a crime by Mueller’s team that he did not commit and that would cost him $2 million in legal defense […]

Trump to ‘masters of the universe’: Un-American to silence conservative voices

Trump to ‘masters of the universe’: Un-American to silence conservative voices

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 President Donald Trump on Aug. 30 warned America’s tech giants, who have been termed “masters of the universe,” against censoring conservative voices. “I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results,” Trump said in calling out companies such as Google, […]

One-party rule: Dems call for boycott of In-N-Out Burger after donation to GOP

One-party rule: Dems call for boycott of In-N-Out Burger after donation to GOP

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 The Resistance opened a new front in its food fight with alleged Trump sympathizers on Aug. 30. California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman called for a boycott of In-N-Out after the mega-popular burger joint had the audacity to donate $25,000 to the state’s Republican Party. Bauman tweeted: “Et tu In-N-Out? […]

Revival: Egypt’s tourism revenues up substantially in first half of 2018

Revival: Egypt’s tourism revenues up substantially in first half of 2018

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 Egypt’s tourism revenues increased by 77 percent in the first half of 2018, a government official said. “Indicators suggest the sector will earn about $9 billion by the end of this year,” the official told Reuters, adding there were expectations of greater tourist traffic from western Europe, Italy, Germany […]