‘Alarming’: Defeated ISIS jihadists streaming back to Europe

‘Alarming’: Defeated ISIS jihadists streaming back to Europe

by WorldTribune Staff, February 22, 2019 The threat of terrorism is increasing across Europe as hundreds of jihadists return from Mideast battlefields following the destruction of the Islamic State (ISIS) caliphate, Hungary’s foreign minister warned. “This must be stopped,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Szijjarto cited the “alarming” arrest of former ISIS members in Bosnia-Herzegovina […]

U.S. ambassador to Lebanon notes Hizbullah’s clout in new cabinet

U.S. ambassador to Lebanon notes Hizbullah’s clout in new cabinet

by WorldTribune Staff, February 22, 2019 U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard has voiced concern over Hizbullah’s increasing power in Lebanese parliament and in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. In a meeting with Hariri on Feb. 19, the U.S. ambassador said she was “very frank with the prime minister about U.S. concern […]

Bookies say Trump is huge favorite to win in 2020

Bookies say Trump is huge favorite to win in 2020

by WorldTribune Staff, February 22, 2019 Bookies say that President Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to win the 2020 presidential election. Trump is a 3-2 favorite, according to Dave Mason of BetOnline.ag. His closest rival is Sen. Kamala Harris at 8-1. The entry of Sen. Bernie Sanders this week has not changed the odds, […]

Conflicting reports in Seoul about Bolton’s pre-summit visit; Trump firm on sanctions

Conflicting reports in Seoul about Bolton’s pre-summit visit; Trump firm on sanctions

by WorldTribune.com Staff, February 21, 2019 U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has reportedly headed to Seoul ahead of next week’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Citing two Trump administration officials, CNN reported on Feb. 21 that Bolton will travel to South Korea this week for “a round of […]

Democrats: Regardless of Mueller report, ‘this is going to keep on going’

Democrats: Regardless of Mueller report, ‘this is going to keep on going’

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said of Obamacare that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” But several key Democrats are saying they don’t even have to read the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller – they intend […]

Lara Logan names names: ‘They’re going to come after me’

Lara Logan names names: ‘They’re going to come after me’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2019 Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan named media leftists who she said were likely to target her after she slammed the media as “mostly liberal.” During a recent Breitbart podcast with host and retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan said: “The media everywhere is mostly liberal. But in this […]

Stop the Presses: CNN hires a Republican

Stop the Presses: CNN hires a Republican

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2019 Reports say that CNN has hired a former spokesperson for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sarah Isgur Flores has been added to the team that will direct the network’s coverage of the 2020 election. The response was prompt. Melanie R. Newman, Justice Department spokeswoman under Loretta Lynch during the […]

Berkowitz: How Marx transformed the mission statements of Ivy League universities

Berkowitz: How Marx transformed the mission statements of Ivy League universities

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2019 In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). The mission statements of several preeminent colleges and universities in the United States follow suit, an analyst noted. “Consider Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, […]

Body-cam footage: Suspect shoots at deputy from point blank range, misses, and is killed

Body-cam footage: Suspect shoots at deputy from point blank range, misses, and is killed

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2019 The Napa County Sheriff Department on Feb. 20 released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of an armed suspect by one the department’s deputies. The body-cam footage is from a Feb. 17 incident in which Deputy Riley Jarecki checked on a parked car in the southern part of […]

Warsaw conference, mocked by Left, focused on regional threat posed by Iran

Warsaw conference, mocked by Left, focused on regional threat posed by Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2019 During last week’s Warsaw conference on Middle East security, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said that Iran poses the “greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East” and explicitly called out the Islamic Republic for plotting a “new Holocaust.” Liberal U.S. media dismissed the conference as evidence […]