Where is Xi Jinping? Ball in China’s court on rare earths-tariffs showdown, says Team Trump

Where is Xi Jinping? Ball in China’s court on rare earths-tariffs showdown, says Team Trump

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2025 Real World News What exactly is going on in Communist China, and where is Comrade Xi Jinping? China’s sweeping restrictions on rare earth exports  in a surprise announcement last week caught the White House off guard ahead of an expected meeting between President Donald Trump and Communist China […]

In blow to Iran-Hamas, Trump sold peace deal to Arab world on sidelines at UN last month

In blow to Iran-Hamas, Trump sold peace deal to Arab world on sidelines at UN last month

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 14, 2025 Many years ago, a senior British diplomat told a few of us UN correspondents outside the Security Council, and I paraphrase, “That no matter what you see transpiring in the Middle East, it’s never wise to base one’s career on predictions of the outcome.” So, […]

How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 12, 2025 Almost a decade ago, the then new UN Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres decried the forced expulsion of the minority Rohingya people from Myanmar (Burma) by the military. During a September press conference in 2017, he condemned the Myanmar regime’s actions forcing nearly a million Muslim […]

Memo to both sides ‘of the aisle’: End the Obama-created health insurance scam now

Memo to both sides ‘of the aisle’: End the Obama-created health insurance scam now

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, October 1, 2025 No one likes insurance companies — trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog’s clenched teeth — and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 […]

For its 80th birthday, UN gets stern rebuke by President Trump, praise for ‘potential’

For its 80th birthday, UN gets stern rebuke by President Trump, praise for ‘potential’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 29, 2025 President Donald Trump lambasted the United Nations on opening day for its failure to stop global crises in the midst of major regional wars, humanitarian disasters, looming security threats, never mind costly bureaucratic waste. But like a stern professor, yet as the leader of the […]

How Mexico is adapting as 2 million illegal immigrants exit U.S. in only 8 months

How Mexico is adapting as 2 million illegal immigrants exit U.S. in only 8 months

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Allan Wall,  September 25, 2025 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in a press release on Sept. 23, 2025, that since Jan. 20, (Trump’s inauguration) 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. or been deported. That is a substantial number. From the DHS press release: “On Tuesday […]

The case against Jerome Powell’s ‘reign of error’

The case against Jerome Powell’s ‘reign of error’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, September 23, 2025 It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left […]

80th General Assembly session convenes; UN’s budget slashed to 10 percent of NYC’s school system

80th General Assembly session convenes; UN’s budget slashed to 10 percent of NYC’s school system

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 22, 2025 Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the United Nations General Assembly session. The upcoming General Debate, starting Sept. 23, will bring together a cast of thousands of delegates for ten days of speeches, meetings, and debates. UN Sec. Gen. […]

Charlie Kirk’s final recorded words were directed at America’s entrepreneurs

Charlie Kirk’s final recorded words were directed at America’s entrepreneurs

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2025 Real World News Minutes before his final appearance on Earth, Charlie Kirk recorded a conversation on entrepreneurship, building businesses and his “bullish” outlook on the U.S. economy in 2026. One of his personal mottoes? “This too shall pass.” Kirk reflected on the uniqueness of entrepreneurship in the United States, […]