by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2017 Three activists with ties to the communist Workers World Party have been arrested and charged with felonies for their roles in the Aug. 15 toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina. Takiyah Thompson, a student at North Carolina Central University, was charged with two felonies related to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 After being derided for excessive rhetoric by his domestic critics, U.S. President Donald Trump and his equally-tough generals appear to have prevailed, for the moment, in the war of words with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. After a heated exchange of rhetoric between Trump and Kim, the North on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 A former top tech exec for Business Insider, who had been scheduled to speak in Charlottesville, VA on Aug. 12, has contradicted the major media narrative of the tragic events that has been frequently repeated and reinforced by Virginia authorities. Pax Dickinson, a free speech advocate, provided a report based […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 Israel, under an accelerated schedule, hopes to have an underground border wall along its side of the 37-mile (60-kilometer) border with the Gaza Strip completed within two years. The sensor-equipped wall, which will cost $1.1 billion, is being constructed as a counter-measure to terror tunnels used by Hamas fighters […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 Sen. John McCain decried what he called the “alt-right” media’s “smear tactics” in coverage critical of national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s purging of conservatives from the National Security Council (NSC). McCain lumped the media outlets which have been critical of McMaster in with the “same purveyors of hatred and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 Public health officials in two Arizona counties are warning residents to keep their pets from running free after confirming that fleas in the two counties have tested positive for the plague, similar to the bacteria that cause the Black Death. The health officials confirmed that fleas tested positive for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 Iran is primed to “fill the void” created by the ongoing defeat of Islamic State (ISIS), the director of Israel’s Mossad warned. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, in a briefing to Israel’s cabinet on Aug. 13, said Iran is expanding its control in the region and is taking over territory […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 India’s sale to Vietnam of a short-range, supersonic anti-ship missile has opened a new conflict in an already tense situation with China, an analyst said. Vietnam will receive the BrahMos which is considered one of the most effective and lethal anti-ship missiles in the world, with speeds reaching Mach […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 A high-ranking Venezuelan official who has been engaged in a public feud with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is said to have put out a hit order on the Florida Republican, a report said. Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Karen Hagestad Cacy, Fairfax Free Citizen, Aug. 13, 2017 COLORADO SPRING, Colorado – There’s prostitution. There’s booze and drugs aplenty. There’s organized crime mixed with decaying local government. Australia’s hit television series, “Rake,” takes American viewers back in time when personal insults weren’t called “bullying,” and when language was so free-wheeling […]
