McDonalds answers $15 minimum wage with the Big Mac ATM

McDonalds answers $15 minimum wage with the Big Mac ATM

by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2017 Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce. Hold the $15 per hour worker? Meet the Big Mac ATM machine. McDonald’s and other quick service restaurants are answering the push led by Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders for a nationwide $15 minimum wage by installing automated kiosks instead of adding more humans […]

Yemeni sniper makes $8 a day ‘shooting Houthis with my own Kalashnikov’

Yemeni sniper makes $8 a day ‘shooting Houthis with my own Kalashnikov’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2017 In the region that includes Taiz, Yemen, most families own a Kalashnikov rifle, but they are used primarily to fire off during celebrations such as weddings. When the Yemeni conflict spilled into the region in 2015, a Taiz shopkeeper named “Ahmed” took his Kalashnikov, and a pair of binoculars […]

Make China great again: Xi Jinping offers solace to Trumped global elites

Make China great again: Xi Jinping offers solace to Trumped global elites

by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping is “stepping up” as the new defender of globalism. As a populist wave swept through Europe and ushered in the Trump administration in Washington, Xi was in Switzerland vowing to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos that China was ready to play a […]

London defector: Kim Jong-Un regime is losing information war

London defector: Kim Jong-Un regime is losing information war

by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 The failure of Kim Jong-Un to stop the flow of information and market activities into North Korea could derail the young leader’s regime, a high-ranking defector said on Jan. 25. “I am sure that more defections of my colleagues will take place, since North Korea is already on a […]

Realistic? Poll finds 1 in 3 Californians support secession from U.S.

Realistic? Poll finds 1 in 3 Californians support secession from U.S.

by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 California ‘dreamin’? One in every three California residents supports the state’s withdrawal from the union, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. California, the world’s sixth-largest economy and boasting a population of 39 million, went two-to-one in favor of Hillary Clinton in the November election. The U.S. Constitution lays […]

‘Meaningless’ without U.S.: Japan rejects plan to salvage TPP

‘Meaningless’ without U.S.: Japan rejects plan to salvage TPP

by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 Saying the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is “meaningless” without the United States, Japan on Jan. 25 rejected Australia’s effort to salvage the trade agreement. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had suggested China be brought in as a replacement for the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the […]

Tales of ten terrorists who took advantage of the porous U.S.-Mexico border

Tales of ten terrorists who took advantage of the porous U.S.-Mexico border

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 Republicans have long voiced concern over the threat of terrorists entering the U.S. from Mexico, a concern the Obama administration largely downplayed. Available data suggest the concern is justified, according to a Jan. 15 report by the Christian Science Monitor which included 10 incidents of terror suspects and enablers […]

Trump’s FCC chairman vows to take ‘weed whacker’ to net neutrality rules

Trump’s FCC chairman vows to take ‘weed whacker’ to net neutrality rules

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) said he is ready to “fire up the weed whacker” and cut down net neutrality rules. Trump on Jan. 23 designated Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the FCC, to be the agency’s new chairman. “Pai is a […]

Report: Iran’s IRGC using Taliban to disrupt Afghanistan’s water supply

Report: Iran’s IRGC using Taliban to disrupt Afghanistan’s water supply

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 Iran is said to be providing the Afghan Taliban with the means to disable some of Afghanistan’s dams so Teheran can get a larger share of water for itself, a report said. Governors in Afghanistan’s southern and western provinces accused Iran of using an increasingly close relationship with the […]

Who was the proud owner of that limo the leftists torched on Inauguration day?

Who was the proud owner of that limo the leftists torched on Inauguration day?

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 The anti-Trump protesters who torched a limousine in downtown D.C. on Inauguration Day may have thought the destructive act was righteous – sticking it to the man. The limo, however, was owned by a Muslim immigrant who now says the damage could cost his company $70,000, along with hospital […]