by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2017 North Carolina’s public universities “are retooling” to become more accessible to students from all backgrounds, according to a new strategy, entitled Higher Expectations. The plan, announced by Margaret Spellings, president of the University of North Carolina system, calls for recruiting more students from low-income backgrounds and rural areas. “We can’t have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2017 Special counsel Robert Mueller illegally obtained emails related to President Donald Trump’s transition to the White House, a lawyer from Trump’s transition team said. Mueller’s acquisition of the emails violated attorney-client privilege and the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, lawyer Kory Langhofer said. Mueller and his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 15, 2017 Then-FBI Director James Comey’s original draft statement on Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material was revised to eliminate references to “criminality,” a senator with knowledge of the original statement said. Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter to the FBI on Dec. 14 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 15, 2017 Although the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro has stopped publishing official numbers, at least 1.1 million people have fled Venezuela amid a devastating humanitarian crisis according to officials in neighboring countires. The situation in Venezuela seems to worsen by the day, with severe shortages of food and medicine, runaway […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2017 Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top aide Huma Abedin were allowed to remove electronic and physical records by claiming they were “personal” materials and “unclassified, non-record materials,” according to State Department records obtained by a government watchdog group. The records, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2017 A pair of FBI agents working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged text messages in which they appear to discuss how to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president. In an Aug. 15, 2016 text message, FBI agent Peter Strzok writes to FBI lawyer Lisa Page: “I want […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 13, 2017 Sen. Al Franken, Alabama’s Roy Moore, President Donald Trump are just at the top of a growing list of the male politicians taking heat for alleged sins against women. The sex revolution of the last century has delivered massive blowback in the form of daily and sensational outrages that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 13, 2017 Dallas police and fire departments are finding it difficult to recruit “job-hopping” millennials who want too much, too fast. “We have nights, weekends and holidays – not attractive to millennials who want all days off and to be the chief in six months,” Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 Diplomats have taken a back seat to tough generals in the Trump administration on geopolitics and foreign policy. But straight-talking Amb. to the UN Nikki Haley has emerged as an effective U.S. voice in marshaling an international response to the ultimate nightmare: rogue state nuclear terrorism. North Korean leader […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 Americans will return to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 and in the long-term will use the moon as a way-station for a journey to Mars, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Dec. 11. Surrounded by members of the recently re-established National Space Council (NSC), active […]
