by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2018 CNN and six other major media outlets are being accused of attempting to intimidate the jury in former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s trial after the outlets sought to obtain the jurors’ names and home addresses. On Aug. 16, CNN, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico, The New York Times, NBC and The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 A Yazidi teenager who was kidnapped at age 15 by Islamic State (ISIS) and held for three months as a sex slave said she now feels safer in an Iraqi refugee camp than in Germany, where she was confronted earlier this year by her ISIS captor. Ashwaq Ta’lo, 19, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2018 President Donald Trump, saying he has “nothing to hide,” tweeted that he encouraged White House counsel Don McGahn to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. A New York Times report had said that McGahn decided to cooperate fully because he worried Trump was trying to set him up to take […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 During their summit last month in Helsinki, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that Iran should withdraw from the Syrian conflict, a report said. Iran’s role in Syria was the dominant topic in the meeting between Trump and Putin, a U.S. administration official said, according […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 Newly revealed documents show that Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr kept in continuous contact with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and that special counsel Robert Mueller was a subject of their conversations. The emails and notes between Ohr and Steele, written between 2016 and 2017, were obtained by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 The populist Sweden Democrats party is poised to possibly win the most seats in Sweden’s parliament, knocking the Social Democrats out of power for the first time in more than a century. Some polls now show the Sweden Democrats at 25 percent, which would likely gain them the majority […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2018 The U.S. Treasury Department on Aug. 15 announced new sanctions on a Russian port service agency which aided North Korean ships and a Chinese firm and its Singapore affiliate which sold alcohol and tobacco products to Pyongyang in breach of current U.S. sanctions. Russian-based Profinet Pte Ltd and its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2018 China is rapidly pursuing supreme leader Xi Jinping’s plan of having a modernized military that can “fight and win” wars, the Pentagon said. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has the largest ground force in the world, is also training its pilots for strikes against U.S. and allied targets […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2018 Former CIA Director John Brennan’s ongoing behavior is damaging U.S. national security and President Donald Trump “did the right thing” in revoking Brennan’s security clearance, a former intelligence official said. “Brennan’s actions are unconscionable,” a former senior intelligence official told SaraACarter.com in an Aug. 15 report. Brennan “is spreading […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2018 A Pentagon analyst had his security clearance revoked and was relegated to clerical duty by Obama-appointed officials after questioning the FBI’s hiring of an informant to spy on the Trump campaign, a report said. Adam Lovinger, a 12-year strategist in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), complained to […]
