by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 Syria has “evolved” its chemical weapons arsenal and is developing new ways to use the weapons, U.S. officials say. Reports from Arab news outlets on Feb. 5 said a chemical weapons attack, believed to be chlorine gas, killed 20 people in a town in Idlib province. The forces of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 The eldest son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro committed suicide on Feb. 1, according to Cuban state-run media. Fidel “Fidelito” Castro Diaz-Balart, 68, who “had been attended by a group of doctors for several months due to a state of profound depression, killed himself this morning,” the Cubadebate […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 A letter from a Chilean sex abuse victim contradicts Pope Francis’s “insistence that no victims had come forward,” The Associated Press reported. The eight-page letter that Pope Francis received in 2015, obtained exclusively by the AP, “graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused” the victim and how “other Chilean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 A new policy for Delaware schools drafted by Gov. John Carney would allow children in grades K-12 to select the race or gender with which they identify – without the consent of their parents, according to recent reports. The policy would even allow students “access to the hormone blockers […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 The NFL sacked a Super Bowl ad by a Bitcoin company that featured an actor portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The ad says: “North Korea’s top hacker has been totally unable to steal AML BitCoin for two days and Kim is mad.” The actor, who bears a striking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Back in Ronald Reagan’s time, the underlining philosophical mantra of the extraordinary economic expansion was that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Namely, as entrepreneurialism and enterprise were encouraged, the results would create the rising tide of progress. But later, in the early 1990’s slowdown, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 A trail of “fingerprints” from the classified memo released on Feb. 2 by the House Intelligence Committee likely “leads to the Obama presidency,” Rep. Steve King said. During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace on April 10, 2016, then-President Barack Obama said: “I guarantee that there is no political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 President Donald Trump in an early morning tweet on Feb. 2 lashed out at a “politicized” FBI after the fabled agency publicly advised against releasing a classified memo said to question how it conducted its investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. Trump tweeted: “The top Leadership […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 2 was slated to meet with a group of defectors from North Korea, just days after the emotionally-stirring appearance of defector Ji Seong-Ho at the State of the Union address. The president is expected to meet with eight defectors in the Oval Office, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 Democrats called it the Trump Shutdown – the White House said it was the Schumer Shutdown. More Americans agree with the White House. According to a new poll by Zogby Analytics, congressional Democrats are more to blame for the recent government shutdown than the White House or Republicans. A […]
