Report: With ouster of Sheriff Joe, Phoenix becomes sanctuary for illegal aliens

Report: With ouster of Sheriff Joe, Phoenix becomes sanctuary for illegal aliens

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 Phoenix became a safe haven for illegal aliens after a liberal group met with the city’s new police chief, the government watchdog group, Judicial Watch reported. After a closed-door session in May between Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Will Goana, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of […]

Report: Trump supporters were not even considered for key national security posts

Report: Trump supporters were not even considered for key national security posts

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 Key members of the team which helped drive Donald Trump to perhaps the biggest election upset in U.S. history were effectively snubbed for key positions on the president’s national security team, Trump campaign aides said. “Even though President Trump calls the investigations into (Russian) collusion a ‘witch hunt,’ after […]

Jury refuses to convict four defendants in Nevada ranch standoff

Jury refuses to convict four defendants in Nevada ranch standoff

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 A federal jury in Las Vegas on Aug. 22 refused to convict four men who were being retried on accusations of threatening and assaulting federal agents during the 2014 standoff at the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy. The jury acquitted Ricky Lovelien and Steven Stewart of all 10 charges, […]

Trump slams media in Phoenix, vows to close the government to get funding for wall

Trump slams media in Phoenix, vows to close the government to get funding for wall

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 “If you wanted to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media,” President Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Phoenix on Aug. 22. “It’s time to expose the crooked media deceptions and to challenge the media […]

Amb. Haley gets briefing from IAEA, questions failure to inspect military sites

Amb. Haley gets briefing from IAEA, questions failure to inspect military sites

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 If Iran has nothing to hide, why won’t it allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to visit its military sites, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley asked. The IAEA has the authority “to look at military sites now. They have the authority to look at any suspicious […]

Navy investigates possibility USS John McCain collision was no accident

Navy investigates possibility USS John McCain collision was no accident

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 There are no indications that electronic systems on the USS John McCain were hacked in a cyberattack, but “all possibilities” will be considered in a review of the Aug. 20 incident, the U.S. chief of naval operations said. It was the second deadly collision at sea of its kind […]

Yemen foreign minister: Iran ‘can’t be part of solution’

Yemen foreign minister: Iran ‘can’t be part of solution’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 Iran is “the cause of the problem” in Yemen and “can’t be part of the solution,” Yemen’s foreign minister said on Aug. 21. “Iran continues to support the Houthis, Iranian arms are smuggled in,” Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi said at a news conference at the United Nations in […]

Trump reverses campaign stance on Afghanistan, vows U.S. will ‘fight to win’

Trump reverses campaign stance on Afghanistan, vows U.S. will ‘fight to win’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 Though he said his “instinct” was to “pull out” of Afghanistan, U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 21 said he had concluded “the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable” leaving a “vacuum” that terrorists “would instantly fill.” As he backed away from his campaign stance […]

Pyongyang calls on Latin American nations to reject U.S. call for severing ties

Pyongyang calls on Latin American nations to reject U.S. call for severing ties

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2017 Latin American nations should not fall prey to the U.S.’s “coercive behavior” and should reject calls for them to sever relations with North Korea, a spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry said. Pyongyang said U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s move to openly press Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to […]

The great American eclipse of 2017: Summer fun or beginning of the end?

The great American eclipse of 2017: Summer fun or beginning of the end?

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2017 If you missed the “Great American Eclipse of 2017” on Aug. 21, you will have several more opportunities in the next decade, if you are willing to travel, to view an eclipse. If you’re staying put, it will be much longer. A solar eclipse’s path passes where you live […]