by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said he will be watching closely what Turkey does militarily in northern Syria after the U.S. announced it will pull its troops out of the area. Trump said there would be “big trouble” if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s forces do anything inhumane. The president […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2019 President Donald Trump will fulfill a 2016 campaign promise by cutting the inflow of refugees by 80 percent in 2020, the State Department said on Sept. 26. The Trump administration will lower the refugee resettlement cap to a maximum of 18,000 admissions next year, which the State Department said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2019 Six weeks after hiring John Bolton as national security adviser in April 2018, President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Obama-era nuclear pact with Iran and has pummeled Teheran with sanctions in the time since. Analysts say Bolton, a strong proponent of pulling out of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2019 In its reporting on the accomplishments of President Donald Trump from Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Washington Post characterized Trump’s performance as the “lost summer.” Who really had the “lost summer”? As temperatures were on the rise, an analysis said, the Post was employing a two-pronged bias playbook […]
FPI / August 23, 2019 By Richard Fisher, Geostrategy-Direct.com On Aug. 15, the Trump administration informally told the U.S. Congress that it had approved the $8 billion sale of Lockheed-Martin F-16V fighters to Taiwan, that now requires Congressional approval to proceed. Taiwan has been seeking upgraded and more capable F-16s since 1997, in the wake […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2019 The situation in Ukraine illustrates how Europe is not “secure and peaceful,” the Trump administration’s newly appointed ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said. “I think what’s on the U.S. mind at this point is working hard to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty, because it’s under […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2019 U.S. national security adviser John Bolton will advise South Korea this week against nullifying a military agreement with Japan, a report said. Bolton is expected to convey President Donald Trump’s message that canceling the accord “isn’t desirable” in terms of moving forward with the peace process on the Korean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 19, 2019 The Trump administration ended its partnership with Turkey in the F-35 stealth fighter program after Turkey proceeded with its plan to procure a Russian-made missile defense system, the White House said. Ankara’s continued participation in the F-35 fighter jet program is now “impossible” because of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2019 The Trump administration is within its authority to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities based on a merit system that is in place, a federal court ruled. The July 12 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge, who sided […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2019 Americans across the political spectrum say a citizenship question should be included in the 2020 U.S. Census, a new poll shows. According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released on July 2, 67 percent of voters said that the government should be allowed to ask U.S. residents if they are […]
