by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2018 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last month released a preliminary report on the Las Vegas massacre that critics say raises more questions than gives answers. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said on Jan. 18 it was not his department’s “standard practice” to release a report on an open […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2018 The majority of Americans polled in a new survey said they would consider taking active shooter training classes. Americans are “proactively seeking out instruction through active shooter classes so they can protect themselves and others if caught in a dire situation,” according to YouGov, which administered the survey. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2018 On the final day of the Obama administration, an email national security adviser Susan Rice sent to herself indicated there were discussions of withholding classified information on Russia from the Trump administration, two Republican senators say. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2018 CNN said she was “stealing the show” at the Winter Olympics. A Washington Post reporter praised her for “throwing shade” at U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times said she got the best of Pence just with her smile. Reuters awarded her the “diplomatic gold medal.” The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2018 Amazon joins Hollywood men, Twitter and YouTube on the 2018 Dirty Dozen List for sexual exploitation. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which puts out the list, said Amazon “facilitates the sale of materials that sexualize children and normalize the dehumanization and sexual commodification of women. Such products include […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2018 The artist who created the official portrait of former President Barack Obama that was unveiled on Feb. 12 at the Smithsonian in past works depicted black women decapitating white women. Kehinde Wiley, the first African American to paint an official presidential portrait, also created two works in 2012 depicting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2018 A budget deal which increases government spending by $300 billion is a triumph for the D.C. swamp, the co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus said on Feb. 11. “I’m saying the swamp won and the American taxpayer lost,” Rep. Jim Jordan said on “Fox News Sunday”. Jordan said the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2018 The major media, which have provided non-stop top billing to the Trump-Russia collusion story, has been quiet about the FBI’s questionable behavior in the Trump investigation. The two major and conflicting narratives, each of blockbuster dimensions, have almost mutually exclusive audiences each of which rely on contrasting news sources […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 11, 2018 British-based Oxfam said it “got it wrong” when the charitable organization failed to publicly disclose misconduct at so-called “Caligula” style sex parties its employees engaged in while administering earthquake relief in Haiti in 2010. “With hindsight, I would much prefer that we had talked about sexual misconduct,” Oxfam’s chief […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2018 The North Carolina Senate on Feb. 9 passed legislation that will redirect what was being called a $58 million “slush fund” of Gov. Roy Cooper to local school districts. The fund was linked to permitting for the advancement of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline that will […]
