by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Aug. 22 that he has asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study the South African land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.” In the tweet, the president made it clear he was reacting to a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy in Afghanistan “is fundamentally working and advancing us towards reconciliation,” the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Aug. 22. Ditching the Obama administration’s timeline for withdrawal and gaining commitments from NATO allies to extend assistance to 2024 were key moves made by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 Five newly uncovered emails which were sent or received on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecure non-state.gov email system contain classified information, a government watchdog group announced on Aug. 16. Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, said the new documents […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 A black man and “loyal southerner” was outraged that a mob of protesters toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. On Aug. 22, two days after protesters knocked down the Silent Sam statue, H.K. Edgerton stood at the scene holding a Confederate flag, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 The death of an investigative journalist who was working on an article on former CIA Director John Brennan was likely a tragic accident, the journalist’s widow said. Michael Hastings, a writer for BuzzFeed, died in a fiery car crash in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 Israel will have to pay a “high price” for peace in the Middle East and the Palestinians will “get something very good” in return for the U.S. moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 21. While not going into detail as to what […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 President Donald Trump “is in the clear” after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on Aug. 21 pleaded guilty to criminal offenses that “don’t exist,” radio host Mark Levin said on Fox News’s “Hannity”. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and false statements to a financial […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 “It appears that Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have all gone to war with President Trump, and are punishing anyone who dares to speak up for him,” columnist Doug Wead wrote for The Federalist on Aug. 17. Wead noted that new membership on his Facebook page “stopped dead,” and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 Congressional investigators are reportedly looking into a meeting between former CIA Director John Brennan and Sen. Harry Reid which took place days before Reid’s letter asking the FBI to investigate alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia was leaked to the media. Brennan, late in the summer of 2016, met […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 What works for communist China appears to be good enough for Facebook, some critics say. Earlier this year, China introduced a “social credit score” in which the communist government decides who in the country of 1.4 billion people is and isn’t trustworthy. Facebook is following Beijing’s lead with a […]
