Small-dollar donations to Trump top totals of all former GOP candidates

Small-dollar donations to Trump top totals of all former GOP candidates

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2016 Donald Trump in only a few months has seen more small-dollar donations pour into his campaign coffers than the two previous GOP nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney, during their entire campaigns. Trump is close to, or may have surpassed, $100 million from donors who have given $200 or […]

Origins of controversial North Carolina bill traced to pressure by gay lobby in Charlotte

Origins of controversial North Carolina bill traced to pressure by gay lobby in Charlotte

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2016 North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (HB2) would likely never have seen the light of day if the gay lobby hadn’t pushed the city of Charlotte to include bathroom access for transgender persons in the city’s ordinance granting new legal protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people. Charlotte’s City Council […]

White House: ISIL fight is a ‘war of narratives’

White House: ISIL fight is a ‘war of narratives’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2016 After a weekend in which terrorists used bombs and knives to attack Americans, White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Sept. 19 said the U.S. is in a “narrative battle” with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). During an appearance on CNN’s New Day to discuss the terrorist […]

Before Trump: Emails show Clinton pal pushed investigation of Obama’s origins

Before Trump: Emails show Clinton pal pushed investigation of Obama’s origins

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2016 Longtime Hillary Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal during the 2008 Democratic primaries sought to plant news articles on Barack Obama’s Kenyan ties and Obama’s ties to “controversial Muslim groups” in Kenya, newly released emails show. Journalist James Asher, the former Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, said Blumenthal urged him […]

Weekend terror wave puts spotlight on nation’s largest ISIL recruitment investigation

Weekend terror wave puts spotlight on nation’s largest ISIL recruitment investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2016 Minnesota, where “a soldier of the Islamic State” stabbed nine people in a mall on Sept. 17, is the focus of the largest ongoing terrorism investigation in the U.S. Since 2014, 11 Somali-Minnesotans have been charged in an alleged plot to travel to Syria and join ISIL. Two were […]

Khamenei condemns U.S., calls ‘creation of fear in the enemy’ key to peace in the region

Khamenei condemns U.S., calls ‘creation of fear in the enemy’ key to peace in the region

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2016 Creating fear and intimidating the enemy through military power are the keys to peace in the Middle East, Iran’s supreme leader said on Sept. 18. “In past years, some officials have said the removal of military threat and war were due to certain measures, but it’s not true,” Ayatollah […]

Report: Clinton campaign regularly makes unauthorized charges on small donors’ credit cards

Report: Clinton campaign regularly makes unauthorized charges on small donors’ credit cards

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making repeated unauthorized charges to the bankcards of one-time, small amount donors, a report said. “We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary’s low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,” a source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of job security, […]

Iraqi Yazidi woman who was enslaved by ISIL is named UN goodwill ambassador

Iraqi Yazidi woman who was enslaved by ISIL is named UN goodwill ambassador

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Nadia Murad Basee, an Iraqi Yazidi woman who was raped and enslaved by the Islamic State, was appointed a UN goodwill ambassador. The United Nations on Sept. 16 appointed a new goodwill ambassador: a Yazidi woman who was raped, tortured and sold into sexual slavery by […]

‘I will consider it a personal insult’: Obama urges black Americans not to vote against his legacy

‘I will consider it a personal insult’: Obama urges black Americans not to vote against his legacy

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2016 The president is not running this year, but he has made clear that this election is mainly about him. A vote for anyone other than Hillary Clinton is a vote against the legacy of President Barack Obama, the president warned black Americans. “My name may not be on the […]

Iraqi prime minister: Presence of Turkish troops in Iraq hampers effort to liberate Mosul

Iraqi prime minister: Presence of Turkish troops in Iraq hampers effort to liberate Mosul

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2016 Turkey’s military presence in Iraq is a “hostile act” that is impeding the Iraqi army’s plans to liberate Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sept. 18. “What I want to confirm is that the presence of the Turkish forces […]