CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2018 What is believed to be the largest oil and natural gas reserve ever assessed in the United States has been discovered in Texas and New Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 23, 2018 The arrest of Huawei’s CFO on Dec. 6 lifted the veil on a woman known as “Princess Meng” who is “the heiress apparent of China’s largest and most advanced high-tech company, and one which plays a key role in China’s grand strategy of global domination,” a China specialist and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 23, 2018 NBA superstar LeBron James said the “bunch of old white men” that own NFL teams behave like slave masters. On an episode of his HBO Sports series The Shop which aired on Dec. 21, the Los Angeles Lakers star said: “In the NFL they got a bunch of old white […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 Turkey sent military reinforcements into Syria on Dec. 22 days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would withdraw the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops stationed in Syria. “Around 35 tanks and other heavy weapons, carried aboard tank carriers, crossed the Jarablos border crossing in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 23, 2018 The Trump administration has ended an Obama-era policy on school discipline which, the Wall Street Journal reported, may have been a contributing factor in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman High School in Florida. The 2014 policy aimed to address racial disparities in student punishment as where “black students are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2018 Just 8 percent of respondents in a new Gallup poll said members of Congress have high ethical standards. Car salespeople also garnered 8 percent in terms of high ethics, while telemarketers were at 9 percent. In the Gallup poll, conducted from Dec. 3-12, journalists were rated by 33 percent […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2018 Democratic operatives reportedly pulled off a scheme in which they created thousands of fake Russian social media accounts to follow U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore with the intent of giving the impression that the Kremlin was backing the Republican’s […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2018 Denmark’s government has approved a plan to send 100 foreign criminals, who have completed their sentences but can’t be deported, to a small island that is used as a laboratory and crematorium by scientists who are researching swine flu, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 20, 2018 Rep. Nancy Pelosi was dancing the night away on Dec. 19 after Democrats appeared to triumph in averting a government shutdown with a continuing resolution on a spending bill that did not include wall funding. When she likely becomes Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, 2019, the chances […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 20, 2018 The House Freedom Caucus is calling on President Donald Trump to veto the spending bill that kicks border wall funding to when Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes the likely next Speaker of the House. “I rise to encourage my colleagues to stay in the fight to have the president deliver […]
