by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 China, Russia and Iran have created an echo chamber which pushes false narratives about the origins of and China’s response to the coronavirus crisis, a U.S. State Department official said. “During the crisis, we’ve seen Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state disinformation and propaganda ecosystems all converge around some disinformation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a law passed by Congress which aims to strengthen Taiwan’s alliances amid increased pressure from communist China. Even amid the coronavirus outbreak, China in recent weeks has reportedly stepped up its military drills around Taiwan. China has also blocked Taiwan from participating […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 A British epidemiologist of the Imperial College, whose dire predictions on the coronavirus outbreak caused much anxiety, has revised his prediction with a much more optimistic view. Neil Ferguson had suggested that over 500,000 people could die in the UK, and over two million could die in the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 The U.S. Justice Department on March 26 announced that socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and several other Venezuelan government officials have been indicted on drug-trafficking charges, including efforts to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States. The charges pertaining to Maduro’s conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism carry a minimum of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 The United States is insisting that any United Nations joint declaration on the coronavirus crisis should state explicitly that the virus originated in Wuhan, China. Any UN declaration should also state exactly when the virus started in Wuhan, the U.S. delegation said. The U.S., in various drafts and edits […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2020 At his daily coronavirus task force briefing Wednesday night, President Donald Trump doubled-down on his timeline for reopening the country. Trump said his vision is to return life to normal by Easter, April 12. “I think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly,” […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 “A bipartisan stimulus measure had been negotiated over several days in the Senate and was headed towards a key procedural vote when it was stopped dead Sunday at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s urging and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s obeisance,” James Robbins wrote for USA Today. “Every time the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 There is a shortage in the Strategic National Stockpile of one of the most needed supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak — N95 respirator masks — in large part because the Obama administration failed to replenish the supply following the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, reports say. Current Health and Human Services […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 Democrats’ attempts to slip parts of the Green New Deal and other unrelated projects into the coronavirus stimulus bill “will never be approved by me,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. After several days of negotiating, Republican and Democratic senators were close to approving a $2 trillion package that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2020 In rejecting U.S. assistance to fight the coronavirus outbreak, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday reinforced Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda that the virus originated in the United States. “I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind […]
