Special to WorldTribune.com Ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has joined a growing list of Americans who are fed up with political correctness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning. The “whole purpose of college is to learn how to deal with difficult situations – not to run away from them,” Bloomberg said in a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 6, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Fewest U.S. jobs added in 7 months… 94,044,000 not participating… But 25,460,000 foreigners working… Iran filmmaker who sentenced to 233 lashes for shots of graffiti in Teheran says he’s into cinema, not politics …
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on May 5 recaptured a major gas field near Palmyra, the terror group’s first territorial expansion in Syria since losing the ancient city in March. Rebel sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed to Reuters that ISIL jihadists captured the Shaer gas field […]
Special to WorldTribune.com All military brigades in Libya’s third-largest city were deployed to a key crossroads on May 6 after it was overrun by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists. ISIL advanced on the Abu Grein crossroads, 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) south of Misrata, in an assault in which a suicide bomber killed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Stripped of a large chunk of his authority, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on May 5 announced he would step down, boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s grip on power. The shock announcement, dubbed a “palace coup” by Erdogan’s opposition, unnerved Turkey’s financial markets, with the lira losing almost four percent its value […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com Kim Jong-Un celebrates his “coronation” in Pyongyang Friday while forgetting about one unpleasant reality that deepens North Korea’s isolation in an already hostile world. He presides over North Korea’s biggest-ever party, the Seventh Workers’ Party Congress, while Iran, his longtime partner in nuclear crime, vastly improves its ties […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump would “not in a million years” have lectured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the way Hillary Clinton did during her tenure as secretary of state, Trump’s adviser on Israel said. Jason Greenblatt, who has been working for Trump for the past two decades, made the comment during a recent interview […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 5, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com First Muslim mayor of Londonistan … Flashback: Parts of London 50% Islamic … Could be majority ‘within ten years’… Europe vigilante group lands in USA… on lookout for illegals, refugees… West Point investigating photo of cadets with raised fists… UK daily newspaper ‘New Day’ folds […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A woman who took her family gospel band to perform for occupiers at an Oregon wildlife refuge earlier this year was arrested and seven of her children were removed from their Kansas home. Odalis Sharp, 46, of Auburn was booked into the Shawnee County jail on April 29 for battery of an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com An Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terror cell that was planning to attack a nearby military base was busted by Saudi security forces on May 5. A group of five ISIL jihadists was found hiding in Jawal Watani, a suburb of Mecca. Two terrorists were killed by security forces in […]
