North Carolina in the running for Amazon’s second HQ

North Carolina in the running for Amazon’s second HQ

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 North Carolina is hoping that a new budget initiative with enhanced incentives for businesses will entice Amazon to choose the Tar Heel state as the location for its second headquarters. Earlier this month, Seattle-based Amazon said it would spend $5 billion in construction and hire up to 50,000 high-paying […]

Analyst compares U.S. ‘denial behavior’ on N. Korea to that of Western elites before 1939

Analyst compares U.S. ‘denial behavior’ on N. Korea to that of Western elites before 1939

by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2017 The United States has a window of opportunity to cast aside its “denial behavior” on North Korea, an analyst said. “Is the naivete and willful blindness that helped begin World War II on September 1, 1939, being repeated in the response of the U.S. and its allies to North […]

CNBC analysis: ‘The Party’s over’, both Democrats and Republicans are done

CNBC analysis: ‘The Party’s over’, both Democrats and Republicans are done

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 A “power vacuum” in both the Democratic and Republican parties has allowed President Donald Trump to work “with whomever he pleases on whatever issues he wants,” and signals the end of the parties as we know them, an analyst wrote. “The partisan political structure in place for so long […]

Imran Awan hid secret server, backed up Democrats’ data on Dropbox

Imran Awan hid secret server, backed up Democrats’ data on Dropbox

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 Imran Awan, the former IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, used a secret server and a file hosting service that congressional staffers are prohibited from using to store massive amounts of Democrats’ data, according to reports. Awan, who is under indictment for bank fraud, conspiracy and making false […]

Sick: In past year 10 U.S. mayors accused of sex crimes involving minors

Sick: In past year 10 U.S. mayors accused of sex crimes involving minors

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 In the last year, 10 current and former U.S. mayors have been accused of sex crimes ranging from possession of child pornography to physical abuse of victims as young as 4-years-old, according to reports. Earlier this month, Rick Nelson, the mayor of Stillwater, New York, resigned after being arrested […]

House Foreign Affairs chair: 12 top Chinese banks ‘ripe for sanctions’ over N. Korean WMD

House Foreign Affairs chair: 12 top Chinese banks ‘ripe for sanctions’ over N. Korean WMD

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has sent the Trump administration a list of a dozen large Chinese banks with alleged ties to North Korea that are “ripe for sanctions.” “We have not had the resolve to put these sanctions on those major institutions. It’s time to […]

Democrat accusers made heavy use of disinformation from Russia to target Trump

Democrat accusers made heavy use of disinformation from Russia to target Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 Democrats have repeatedly used the discredited Russian-sourced “dossier” by an ex-British spy to build their case of alleged “collusion with Russia” by President Donald Trump and his campaign team. “If anyone colluded with the Russians, it was the Democrats,” a former Trump campaign adviser told Rowan Scarborough in a report for […]

Secret Service finally releases Obama family’s travel receipts: $105.66 million

Secret Service finally releases Obama family’s travel receipts: $105.66 million

by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 Government travel expenses for President Barack Obama and his family totaled $105,662,975, according to records obtained from the Secret Service by a government watchdog group. One trip to Martha’s Vineyard, in August 2016, racked up $2,512,380.88 in hotel bills, said Judicial Watch, which obtained the records via a Freedom […]

S. Korean opposition delegation in D.C. seeks ‘redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads’

S. Korean opposition delegation in D.C. seeks ‘redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 A delegation from South Korea’s opposition party visited Washington, D.C. this week to press the Trump administration for the “redeployment” of nuclear weapons in South Korea. “We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea,” Lee Cheol-Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of […]

Trump blocks sale of U.S. tech firm to China

Trump blocks sale of U.S. tech firm to China

by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 13 issued an order blocking the sale of a Portland, Oregon-based technology firm to China. Trump’s order stopped the proposed $1.3 billion sale of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. to Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, which the White House described as a “Chinese corporation owned by […]