Bankrupt Puerto Rico votes for full U.S. statehood

Bankrupt Puerto Rico votes for full U.S. statehood

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2017 A bankrupt and desperate Puerto Rico on June 11 voted for full annexation by the United States. Just 23 percent of the island’s 2 million eligible voters turned out for the referendum to cast a ballot in favor of the territory becoming a U.S. state, AFP reported. Opposition parties […]

Forget the Russians: New conspiracy theory ties both Trump and Brexit to billionaire Mercer

Forget the Russians: New conspiracy theory ties both Trump and Brexit to billionaire Mercer

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2017 With Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller ramping up, the Trump-Russia collusion theory, still unsupported by facts, continues to make headlines despite declining public interest. But against the good news in economic trends for the new administration, the establishment media-political complex is trotting out a new conspiracy theory involving Brexit and […]

Syrian media claim ISIS leader killed in artillery strike

Syrian media claim ISIS leader killed in artillery strike

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported by Syrian media to have been killed on June 10 in a U.S.-lead coalition artillery strike. Syrian state television said the terror group’s leader, the world’s most wanted terrorist, was killed in an artillery strike on the group’s headquarters in […]

Californians demand Europe-style single-payer health care, but can they afford it?

Californians demand Europe-style single-payer health care, but can they afford it?

by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2017 The California Senate last week passed a bill that would grant every resident, whether legal or not, eligibility for health care coverage with no premium, no co-payment and no deductible, a report said. While the Republican effort in D.C. to replace the broken Obamacare system has bogged down, California […]

Comey testifies key NYT story ‘almost entirely wrong’, confirms his role in post-firing leak

Comey testifies key NYT story ‘almost entirely wrong’, confirms his role in post-firing leak

by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2017 Former FBI Director James Comey “did himself no favors” with his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, said a consultant who attended meetings at the White House yesterday during the heavily-publicized hearings. The same could be said of Comey’s riveting admission about a New York Times […]

Majority NC Republicans slam Democrat governor for signing on to Paris climate deal

Majority NC Republicans slam Democrat governor for signing on to Paris climate deal

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has put an estimate of alleged damages by man-made climate change  ahead of the state’s economic health, the state’s Republicans said after Cooper announced he will sign on to the Paris Climate Agreement. “Most North Carolinians believe it’s past time to reverse course on […]

Kim Kardashian on guns: My bodyguards should have them, you probably shouldn’t

Kim Kardashian on guns: My bodyguards should have them, you probably shouldn’t

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 Another celebrity is saying that her personal protection is more important than that of peons who aren’t rich & famous. Kim Kardashian demands that her personal security detail be able to carry guns, but believes it should be extremely hard, if not impossible, for the average American to get […]

Comey struggles to defend legacy: Bowed to Loretta Lynch, admits to orchestrating revenge leak

Comey struggles to defend legacy: Bowed to Loretta Lynch, admits to orchestrating revenge leak

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 Former FBI Director James Comey confirmed on June 8 that, while he was heading up the FBI, President Donald Trump was not under investigation. Comey also stated for the first time that Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the Hillary Clinton email scandal as a […]

How Trump outsmarted Comey: Talk show host helps connect the dots

How Trump outsmarted Comey: Talk show host helps connect the dots

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 The “desperate denizens” of the Washington, D.C. swamp began “sweating bullets” after the firing of FBI Director James Comey and quickly began to “realize they are roadkill,” Salem Radio host Kevin Jackson said citing a toughly-worded post. Comey “is a deep-water Swamp Denizen who has been highly paid to […]

Pentagon report: China advances in taking military control of strategic Pacific sea lanes

Pentagon report: China advances in taking military control of strategic Pacific sea lanes

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2017 China is using non-military “coercion” in an effort to gain control of strategic waters in the Asian Pacific, the Pentagon said in its annual report to Congress released on June 6. “China continues to exercise low-intensity coercion to advance its claims in the East and South China Seas,” the report […]