North Carolina asks Supreme Court to restore voter ID law

North Carolina asks Supreme Court to restore voter ID law

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2016 North Carolina has filed an emergency brief with the Supreme Court to restore its voter ID law, saying it is too close to the November election for courts to nullify a system that was used in the state’s primary elections. “North Carolina should not be forced to scramble mere […]

Russia in talks with Saudis on ‘oil market stability’

Russia in talks with Saudis on ‘oil market stability’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2016 Russia’s oil minister said Moscow and Saudi Arabia are in talks to reach “oil market stability” and that a freeze on output levels is still on the table. “We are ready to achieve the widest possible level of coordination… and put in place joint measures to achieve oil market […]

Ex-Red Sox star Curt Schilling considers run against ‘nightmare’ Elizabeth Warren

Ex-Red Sox star Curt Schilling considers run against ‘nightmare’ Elizabeth Warren

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling may be warming up for a run at Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018. Schilling, a major factor in Boston’s 2004 and 2007 World Series triumphs and Arizona’s 2001 championship, told radio host and WorldTribune columnist Jeffrey Kuhner on Aug. 15 that […]

Report: Key U.S. allies seek to block Obama’s transformation of nuclear doctrine

Report: Key U.S. allies seek to block Obama’s transformation of nuclear doctrine

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 America’s major allies are calling on President Barack Obama not to change U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Japan, South Korea, France and the UK have all signaled their opposition to Obama’s planned “no first use” policy for the United States. Obama’s “last-minute drive for a foreign-policy legacy is making U.S. […]

Trump rattles a lot of people including . . . the GOP national security establishment

Trump rattles a lot of people including . . . the GOP national security establishment

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 The Republican national security establishment is spooked by Donald Trump. They are not so concerned about the GOP candidate’s campaign style. No, the main fear is Trump’s threat to cushy Washington, D.C. lifestyles, writes national security correspondent Rowan Scarborough. An anti-Trump letter signed by 50 national security Republicans “provided […]

Turkey cites ‘positive signals’ from U.S. on extraditing Gulen

Turkey cites ‘positive signals’ from U.S. on extraditing Gulen

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 Turkish officials have said that finally the U.S. is sending “positive signals” on the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara said engineered the July 15 coup attempt. “We have started to receive some positive signals on the calls we have made,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in […]

Leaks reveal Soros organizations’ efforts to mask anti-Israel agenda

Leaks reveal Soros organizations’ efforts to mask anti-Israel agenda

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 The hacking of a network of organizations funded by billionaire leftist George Soros has laid bare the network’s extensive anti-Israel bias and how it went to great lengths to conceal it. Confidential reports from the Open Society Foundations, made available on the website DC Leaks, showed the Soros network […]

Is Daddy’s cash or Alex Soros’ charisma the reason for all those selfies with top Democrats?

Is Daddy’s cash or Alex Soros’ charisma the reason for all those selfies with top Democrats?

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 Is Alex Soros such a magnetic personality that Democrats are lining up to take selfies with the son of billionaire leftist George Soros? “Love this man!” Alex Soros wrote on Instagram along with a photograph of him with vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine. “Was great to have dinner with […]

Kurdish forces liberate ISIL-held villages near Mosul

Kurdish forces liberate ISIL-held villages near Mosul

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 Kurdish peshmerga forces took 11 villages from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) as they advanced on the terror group’s stronghold at Mosul. The Kurds were backed by U.S. airstrikes on Aug. 14 as they advanced from the southeast of Mosul. Iraqi troops are taking up positions to […]

Hamas calls closing of leaders’ Facebook accounts an act of Israeli terrorism

Hamas calls closing of leaders’ Facebook accounts an act of Israeli terrorism

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 The shutting down of its senior leaders’ Facebook pages is an act of Israeli terrorism, Hamas charged. Hamas officials complained that, in the midst of the Gazan election season, Facebook closed the account of one of the terror group’s top leaders, Ismail Radwan, as well as the accounts of […]