Roger Stone gets 40 months; Brennan, Comey, Clapper not charged

Roger Stone gets 40 months; Brennan, Comey, Clapper not charged

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Roger Stone on Thursday was sentenced to more than three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the up to nine years originally sought by federal prosecutors was excessive. Still, the judge’s sentence was far more than the probation sought by Stone’s defense and, analysts […]

India visit seen building on key alliance amid Trump-era shift on China

India visit seen building on key alliance amid Trump-era shift on China

FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]

Britain to close borders to non-English speakers, unskilled workers

Britain to close borders to non-English speakers, unskilled workers

FPI / February 20, 2020 Post-Brexit Great Britain plans to close its borders to those who can’t speak English and to unskilled workers, reports say. The move is part of the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s overhaul of immigration laws aimed at ending the era of cheap EU labor in the UK’s factories, warehouses, […]

Levin levels senator who met secretly with Iranian foreign minister

Levin levels senator who met secretly with Iranian foreign minister

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice favoring them? Consider the Logan Act, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United States. In 2017, Democrat […]

Where does foreign aid end up: World Bank reports much of it goes to offshore accounts

Where does foreign aid end up: World Bank reports much of it goes to offshore accounts

FPI / February 20, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed slashing the foreign aid budget by 21 percent in his 2021 budget proposal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review into how the UK’s £14.6 billion ($18.7 billion) foreign aid budget is spent. A new report from the World Bank provides justification […]

Twitter users correct Chelsea Handler for suggesting Trump only pardoned white people

Twitter users correct Chelsea Handler for suggesting Trump only pardoned white people

FPI / February 20, 2020 Leftist celebrity Chelsea Handler got a quick dose of reality after she attempted to paint President Donald Trump as a racist in relation to his recent slew of pardons. Among the 11 people pardoned are former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and financier Michael Milken – who are white. Responding to […]

Secessionists want to leave blue states for redder pastures

Secessionists want to leave blue states for redder pastures

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 As leftist policies in blue states increasingly creep from Democratic-controlled major cities to the suburban and rural areas they call home, large numbers of conservatives are joining secessionist movements, a report said. “You’ve got Oregonians seeking to cascade into Idaho, Virginians who identify as West Virginians, Illinoians fighting to […]

Trump the progressive? U.S. breaks records in carbon emissions reduction

Trump the progressive? U.S. breaks records in carbon emissions reduction

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 How dare he! (Insert finger wag). A report last week noted that the United States on President Donald Trump’s watch leads the world in reducing carbon emissions. In news that no doubt triggered climate change alarmists who so thoroughly revile the U.S. president, the International Energy Agency (IEA) […]

Barr hangs tough as political hurricane shakes Dept. of Justice

Barr hangs tough as political hurricane shakes Dept. of Justice

by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 Democrats and their leftist media allies had a “stop-the-presses” moment Tuesday when reports surfaced that Attorney General William Barr was fed up with President Donald Trump’s tweets and was ready to quit. For proper context media consumers had to consider the sources of the Barr rumors — The Washington […]

Surge in support from Latinos could make Trump unbeatable in November

Surge in support from Latinos could make Trump unbeatable in November

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 President Donald Trump has a solid base of Latino support that is only growing as the president’s economy keeps humming. That is bad news for Democrats and their corporate media allies who continue to push the narrative that Trump is racist or anti-Hispanic because of his strong stand […]