CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 The Pentagon’s doors may soon swing open to a number of supporters of President Donald Trump who felt they were locked out by departing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, D.C. insiders say. “Mattis mostly hired Democrats, so this is an opportunity […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 The dark side of Silicon Valley came into clear view in 2018, and no one knows how to put the big data genie back into the bottle. The Associated Press noted in a Dec. 24 report that the technology […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump followed through on one of his campaign promises when he announced on Dec. 19 that American troops would withdraw from Syria. In short order Republican senators Lindsay Graham and Bob Corker called the decision a […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2018 A Republican lawmaker said her constituents see the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border up close and personal, and “it is the result of our laws and our lack of a border wall.” “I represent a border state in Congress, […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2018 Some conservatives say they could have a very merry Christmas if the partial government shutdown were made permanent and if special counsel Robert Mueller were sacked. “Open-borders politicians shut down one legitimate government function years ago,” Daniel Flynn wrote […]
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 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 […]
