by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 Once confirmed, Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions should stand against the “cartel-like” NCAA in its bid to impose transgender laws on Americans, an ex-sportscaster and former NFL player said. “I certainly hope the Attorney General — when he takes office — lets them know that everything is on the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a Feb. 7 phone conversation, discussed joint action aimed at liberating the Islamic State (ISIS)-controlled Syrian cities of al-Bab and Raqqa. Turkish presidency sources said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would visit Turkey on Feb. 9 to discuss […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 A drug bust in North Carolina show how far the tentacles of Mexico’s drug cartels reach into the United States, a report said. A heroin ring operated by a Mexican cartel was recently busted in Rowan Country, more than 1,500 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Judicial Watch noted in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 If President Donald Trump is serious about “draining the swam”, he will need to focus on the Justice Department, situated right “in the heart of the swamp,” a Washington insider said. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions “is going into an agency characterized by people like fired Acting AG Sally […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States should invest more in missile defense given repeated missile testing by Iran and North Korea, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has said. Representative Mac Thornberry’s comments on Feb. 6 came after the Trump administration last week imposed new sanctions on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Syrian government has executed as many as 13,000 people, many of them civilian opposition supporters, in mass hangings at a military jail near Damascus, Amnesty International says. In a new report issued on February 7, the London-based group documented executions between September 2011 and December […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 The Open Society Foundations, founded by leftist billionaire George Soros, is bankrolling a number of organizations that have filed legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. “Leftists have no regard for the security and well-being of the American people. To the contrary, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Liberal Democrats have been in lock-step opposing President Donald Trump, so Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s statement that the president was “right” to take a hard line on Iran was jarring. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 The leader of California’s State Senate has introduced legislation that would make California a “sanctuary state,” meaning local police officers statewide would be specifically instructed to ignore federal immigration laws. That leader, in testimony before the California Senate’s Public Safety Committee, admitted he has a huge personal stake in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to take in refugees from Syria. The United States admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees on former President Barack Obama’s watch. Since 1994, 1,144 Syrians have requested asylum in South Korea, but refugee status has been granted to only three, government figures […]
