Hillary Clinton defends her Libya policy: ‘We did not lose a single American life’

Hillary Clinton defends her Libya policy: ‘We did not lose a single American life’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 In defending the 2011 U.S. invasion of Libya during a foreign policy forum broadcast by NBC, Hillary Clinton insisted “we did not lose a single American in that action.” While no Americans died in the actual 26,000 U.S. bombing sorties during the Libya campaign, four Americans died in the […]

Sexual locker room activity by transgender student cited in lawsuit brought by Virginia parents

Sexual locker room activity by transgender student cited in lawsuit brought by Virginia parents

by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A transgender student’s “twerking and grinding” in a high school girls locker room is being cited in a lawsuit filed in federal court by a group of Virginia parents seeking to stop that state’s public schools from opening locker rooms and showers to members of the opposite sex. The […]

Robot racism: AI beauty judges preferred white contestants over those with dark skin

Robot racism: AI beauty judges preferred white contestants over those with dark skin

by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 The creators of the first international beauty contest judged by artificial intelligence were likely using the scratching your head emoticon after the robots chose mostly white contestants as the winners. The robot judges of the Beauty.AI contest were “supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry and wrinkles […]

Report: Clinton Foundation failed to inform IRS as it morphed from presidential library to global enterprise

Report: Clinton Foundation failed to inform IRS as it morphed from presidential library to global enterprise

by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Did the IRS, the same federal agency that five years ago targeted conservative groups, allow the Clinton Foundation a pass on compliance requirements? Clinton Foundation officials “skirted or ignored federal laws and regulations” while converting the non-profit from its tax-exempt purpose of building a presidential library in Little Rock, […]

Obama levels USA in Laos: ‘Lazy’ Americans think they’re too ‘big’ to know other people

Obama levels USA in Laos: ‘Lazy’ Americans think they’re too ‘big’ to know other people

by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Americans are lazy. Too lazy to get to know the people of other cultures. Too lazy, even, to do their own recycling. U.S. President Barack Obama called Americans “lazy” multiple times during his visit to Laos this week. “The United States is and can be a great force for […]

North Carolina’s economy on a roll despite transgender controversy

North Carolina’s economy on a roll despite transgender controversy

by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 The NBA has moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo has banned non-essential state travel to North Carolina. The Tar Heel state’s response – big whoop! Despite multiple calls to boycott North Carolina over its House Bill 2 (HB2), the so-called transgender […]

U.S.-trained sniper replaces ‘Omar the Chechen’ as ISIL’s minister of war

U.S.-trained sniper replaces ‘Omar the Chechen’ as ISIL’s minister of war

by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 A Tajik national and U.S.-trained sniper has been promoted to minister of war by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Gulmurod Khalimov replaces the red-bearded Tarhan Batirashvili, better known as “Omar the Chechen,” who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in July. The 41-year-old Khalimov underwent U.S. special […]

Cuban government blocks text messages using words such as ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 “Democracy”, “human rights” and “hunger strike” are on a list of 30 keywords being blocked in text messages by Cuba’s communist government. Prominent blogger Yoani Sanchez and journalist Reinaldo Escobar found that the Castro regime is filtering the keywords and blocking the transmission of any texts that contain them. […]

Saudi-Iranian war of words escalates: Grand Mufti states rulers of Persia are not Muslims

Saudi-Iranian war of words escalates: Grand Mufti states rulers of Persia are not Muslims

by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2016 The top religious leader of Sunni Saudi Arabia further stoked the flames of tension with Shi’ite Iran on Sept. 6 by proclaiming that the leaders of the Islamic Republic in an area once known as Persia are not Muslims. “We must understand that they are not Muslims, as they […]

How Obama transformed the U.S. Court of Appeals

How Obama transformed the U.S. Court of Appeals

by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2016 President Barack Obama’s liberal transformation of the U.S. Court of Appeals has gone largely under the radar as most attention has focused on the Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court grabs the spotlight, but it hears fewer than 100 cases a year,” Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett said, “while […]