Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s new communications minister has said that negotiations are under way to stop blocking Twitter, which has been banned for years despite being used by the country’s top leaders. The microblogging platform was barred in 2009 after mass protests broke out against the reelection of former […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 President Donald Trump, who said in Phoenix on Aug. 22 that “if I didn’t have social media, I wouldn’t be here tonight,” returned to Twitter on Aug. 24 to again slam the “fake news” media, call out former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and take GOP congressional leaders […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 The commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet has been fired after the Aug. 21 collision of the USS John McCain and an oil tanker, the second deadly collision involving U.S. vessels in recent months. “Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, today relieved the commander of Seventh Fleet, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 A debate similar to the removal of Confederate monuments in the United States is playing out in Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald was Canada’s first prime minister and is considered one of the nation’s founding fathers. He is credited with having joined the eastern and western parts of Canada […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 The chief of Iran’s atomic program said the United States would be shocked at how quickly the Islamic Republic could rebuild its stocks of highly enriched uranium should President Donald Trump walk away from the nuclear deal. Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also one of Iran’s vice presidents, said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 Phoenix became a safe haven for illegal aliens after a liberal group met with the city’s new police chief, the government watchdog group, Judicial Watch reported. After a closed-door session in May between Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Will Goana, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 Key members of the team which helped drive Donald Trump to perhaps the biggest election upset in U.S. history were effectively snubbed for key positions on the president’s national security team, Trump campaign aides said. “Even though President Trump calls the investigations into (Russian) collusion a ‘witch hunt,’ after […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 A federal jury in Las Vegas on Aug. 22 refused to convict four men who were being retried on accusations of threatening and assaulting federal agents during the 2014 standoff at the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy. The jury acquitted Ricky Lovelien and Steven Stewart of all 10 charges, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 “If you wanted to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media,” President Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Phoenix on Aug. 22. “It’s time to expose the crooked media deceptions and to challenge the media […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 If Iran has nothing to hide, why won’t it allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to visit its military sites, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley asked. The IAEA has the authority “to look at military sites now. They have the authority to look at any suspicious […]
