Back to basics: Army shifts priorities from transgenders to combat readiness

Back to basics: Army shifts priorities from transgenders to combat readiness

by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 The U.S. Army is abandoning the politically correct mandates of the Obama administration and will focus on “readiness and lethality” within combat units. The Army is making previously mandatory training on transgender transition, pre-deployment cultural awareness skills and courses on media awareness optional, according to a series of service-wide […]

Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on July 14 to respond to the Department of Justice’s indictment of 12 Russians for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election. The president also seized on the opportunity take a few shots at his predecessor, the “Deep State” and “Crooked Hillary.” Trump […]

Sadiq Khan’s London bans pro-Trump march after championing anti-Trump rally

Sadiq Khan’s London bans pro-Trump march after championing anti-Trump rally

by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 A London rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump was banned by police in the UK capital headed by Mayor Sadiq Khan. London police used the Public Order Act to stop the march despite permitting a large anti-Trump rally on July 13, Breitbart London reported. Supporters attending the […]

Gowdy at hearing: Frankly, Mr. Strzok, ‘I don’t give a damn …’

Gowdy at hearing: Frankly, Mr. Strzok, ‘I don’t give a damn …’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2018 In one of many heated exchanges with Republicans during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12, anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok said he didn’t “appreciate” how Rep. Trey Gowdy was characterizing the agent’s removal from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. “I don’t give a damn what […]

Report: BuzzFeed, FBI embraced, did not seek to verify Russia dossier

Report: BuzzFeed, FBI embraced, did not seek to verify Russia dossier

by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2018 None of the charges made in ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s so-called Trump dossier have been confirmed. Yet, BuzzFeed published the dossier and the FBI used it as a springboard to launch the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And neither have been able to verify […]

Argentina presses Russia to arrest top Iranian official over 1994 Buenos Aires bombing

Argentina presses Russia to arrest top Iranian official over 1994 Buenos Aires bombing

by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2018 Argentina’s Foreign Ministry asked Russia to detain former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati for extradition in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Velayati was Iran’s foreign minister when a bomb destroyed the headquarters of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) on July […]

Peter Strzok discusses the blackmail issue and HR policies at the FBI

Peter Strzok discusses the blackmail issue and HR policies at the FBI

by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2018 The extramarital affair between anti-Trump FBI personnel Peter Strzok and Lisa Page left the two open to blackmail, Department of Justice officials and media reports have said. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12, however, Strzok said his “patriotism” made it impossible for him to be […]

FBI’s Page agrees to congressional testimony

FBI’s Page agrees to congressional testimony

by WorldTribune Staff, July 12, 2018 FBI lawyer Lisa Page, after defying a congressional subpoena on July 11, has agreed to testify before lawmakers on Capitol Hill on July 13. Page agreed to testify after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Speaker Paul Ryan threatened to hold her in contempt. Lawmakers want to […]

Delays in returning remains of American war dead add to questions about N. Korea’s intent

Delays in returning remains of American war dead add to questions about N. Korea’s intent

by WorldTribune Staff, July 12, 2018 North Korean negotiators did not show up for scheduled talks with the United States regarding the repatriation of the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War. The two sides were scheduled to meet in Panmunjom on July 12, but the North’s negotiators failed to show. “North Korea […]

Google boosts China military’s AI program; Objected to Pentagon’s

Google boosts China military’s AI program; Objected to Pentagon’s

by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2018 A former U.S. defense official called out Google for withdrawing from a Pentagon artificial intelligence program while the tech giant continues to aid China’s military. Google, after thousands of its employees voiced their objection, withdrew from the Pentagon’s Project Maven, which is developing artificial intelligence to help military analysts […]