by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2019 Facebook was down for users around the world on March 13. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Facebook tweeted. The Facebook outages began Wednesday afternoon ET and appeared to affect people in multiple […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2019 On Feb. 5, the Elk Grove, California school board unanimously approved new history and social science textbooks for the 2019-20 school year for grades K-8 which includes chapters on historical LGBT figures. Critics argued that elementary school students are too young to learn about such figures. One of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2019 U.S. households headed by legal and non-legal noncitizens use nearly twice the amount of welfare as native-born Americans, a recent study found. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported in December that it found that 63 percent of all noncitizen households use some form of public welfare compared to 35 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2019 Half of American young people making up Millennials and Generation Z aspire to live in a socialist United States, according to a Harris Poll. Gen Z and Millennials are projected to make up 37 percent of the electorate in 2020. The survey of 2,035 Americans conducted on Feb. 21-25 found that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2019 Instead of building President Donald Trump’s border barrier, researchers at a Purdue University-led national consortium of engineers and scientists have proposed a 1,945-mile alternative security zone along the U.S. southern border. What the consortium says would be the largest infrastructure project in world history would consist of a string […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2019 Two recent experiments in socialism have seen New York City, led by Mayor Bill de Blasio, pour $1.6 billion of taxpayer money “down a rathole,” reports say. The mayor, a favorite of “progressives,” recently abandoned his “Renewal” initiative aimed at improving the city’s struggling schools – after allocating $773 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2019 An aborted child has been recognized as a person with rights by an Alabama probate court. The court’s decision this week will enable the father, Ryan Magers, to sue the abortion clinic Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, its staff and a pharmaceutical company on behalf of his aborted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2019 Many employees at Whole Foods, which was purchased by Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon in 2017, say reduction in their hours have effectively negated wage gains made since Amazon introduced a $15 minimum wage. When the $15 minimum wage went into effect on Nov. 1, employees at Whole Foods told The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2019 Later this month, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors is expected to decide on what it plans to do with the Silent Sam Confederate monument that was toppled by protesters in August of last year. In the run-up to the decision, UNC officials had pledged a “very […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2019 Two former participants in Girl Scouts say they spent a decade documenting the organization’s relationship with the abortion industry. Ann Saladin, creator of MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, and co-editor Christy Volanski said Girl Scouts USA have relationships with Planned Parenthood and political leaders who support abortion and a left-wing agenda in general. “At the very […]
