Montana Democrat advises climate change skeptics to consider suicide

Montana Democrat advises climate change skeptics to consider suicide

by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2017 The Democratic Party’s nominee to fill Montana’s vacant at-large U.S. House seat has encouraged climate change skeptics to consider endings their lives. Democrat Rob Quist, who was dubbed a “washed-up hippie” by the National Republican Congressional Committee, is running for the U.S. House seat to replace Interior Secretary Ryan […]

Media fascism? Trump voters, Hannity see a pattern

Media fascism? Trump voters, Hannity see a pattern

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 The major media’s unending criticism of President Donald Trump is only reinforcing his supporters’ belief that he’s “on the right track in terms of shaking things up in Washington, D.C.,” a new poll found. The poll, sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, found that 88 percent […]

Leading from the front: Trump, not China, mobilizes key Asian states on N. Korea crisis

Leading from the front: Trump, not China, mobilizes key Asian states on N. Korea crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump is reaching out to leaders of Asian states to ensure “that we have everyone in line backing up a plan of action” to solve the North Korea crisis, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said. Priebus said Trump was in regular contact with Japanese […]

Hamas hails North Korean threat after top Israeli cited ‘pact of evil’

Hamas hails North Korean threat after top Israeli cited ‘pact of evil’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 Hamas has offered its gratitude to North Korea for issuing a threat against Israel. On April 29, North Korea’s Defense Ministry threatened Israel after Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told the Hebrew-language Walla! news site in an interview called out the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un for his ties with […]

Japan sends largest warship to escort U.S. supply vessel near North Korea

Japan sends largest warship to escort U.S. supply vessel near North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 Japan is sending its hulking Izumo helicopter carrier to secure passage of a U.S. Navy supply ship as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expands the scope of Self-Defense Forces activities amid the rising threat from North Korea. Following an order from Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, the 249-meter-long Izumo will help […]

Yield not to Ivanka’s ‘temptation’, scientist urges Trump

Yield not to Ivanka’s ‘temptation’, scientist urges Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 An environmental scientist has written to President Donald Trump to urge him not to cave in to daughter Ivanka Trump on her global warming views and her call for the U.S. to remain in the Paris climate agreement. Breitbart reported on April 24 that Dr. Duane Thresher, who has […]

Wave of cancellations hits NY Times over broadened opinion section

Wave of cancellations hits NY Times over broadened opinion section

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 The New York Times’ decision to run an op-ed piece by a so-called “climate change denier” sent a number of the paper’s readers into a frenzy, with many canceling or threatening to cancel their subscriptions. In his debut column for the Times, Bret Stephens on April 28 wrote that […]

North Carolina bill takes aim at threat to free speech on campus

North Carolina bill takes aim at threat to free speech on campus

by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 The North Carolina state House in late April passed a bill aimed at fortifying free speech at the 16 schools in the University of North Carolina system. House Bill 527: Restore/Preserve Campus Free Speech, which has a companion bill in the Senate, requires that state public universities maintain “the fullest degree of intellectual […]

Donald Trump and the Philippines’ Duerte are tough, but are they tougher than North Korea’s Kim?

Donald Trump and the Philippines’ Duerte are tough, but are they tougher than North Korea’s Kim?

by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have a couple of things in common. Both speak their minds and both are taking a hardline stance against drugs. This may have been enough to win Duerte an invitation to the White House after the two leaders spoke on […]

Sixty percent of Taliban funding said derived from illegal opium trade

Sixty percent of Taliban funding said derived from illegal opium trade

by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2017 The Taliban relies heavily on the illicit opium trade from which it generates as much as 60 percent of its funding, according to the U.S. military. But politically correct polices at the Pentagon have prevented U.S. military actions to eliminate the lucrative and illicit opium crops at the source. […]