Sleeping sailors on U.S. destroyer had little time to react after collision near Japan

Sleeping sailors on U.S. destroyer had little time to react after collision near Japan

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 The bodies of seven U.S. sailors were recovered after the USS Fitzgerald sustained significant damage in a collision with a Philippine-flagged merchant ship on Saturday around 2:20 a.m. in the sea off Japan, reports said. The seven sailors didn’t make it out of the berthing area, the Navy said. […]

Swamp justice: A closer look at Mueller’s team

Swamp justice: A closer look at Mueller’s team

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 Special counsel Robert Mueller has loaded his team of lawyers with several heavy hitters. This is cause for consternation from some supporters of President Donald Trump who say this shows Mueller is counting on a home run against the administration. If so Mueller shouldn’t be surprised that heavy hitters […]

Nightmare: The hate-Trump campaign hits the 2-year mark as his star continues to rise

Nightmare: The hate-Trump campaign hits the 2-year mark as his star continues to rise

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 Two years to the day on June 16 Donald and Melania Trump took the escalator down at Trump Tower where Trump announced he was running for president. For two years, the major media and Trump resisters “have used every weapon in their arsenal to destroy him. And they have […]

Helmut Kohl, 87: Architect of German reunification, U.S. friend

Helmut Kohl, 87: Architect of German reunification, U.S. friend

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Thirty years ago this week in 1987, President Ronald Reagan visiting Berlin, made his famous challenge, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.” Alongside the American President stood German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A few years earlier I met Helmut Kohl campaigning in his native Rheinland. Kohl, […]

The weaponization of American politics: A bipartisan disease?

The weaponization of American politics: A bipartisan disease?

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 July 2016: The town hall forum and freedom of expression are as American as apple pie. So is civil disobedience. However violence in political discourse has always been frowned on in a Christian nation that values principled freedom of expression. As British philosopher John Locke wrote,  there could be […]

‘All the news that fits …’: NY Times issues correction on Palin link to Arizona shooting

‘All the news that fits …’: NY Times issues correction on Palin link to Arizona shooting

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 After stating unequivocally that there was a “clear link” between Sarah Palin’s rhetoric and the shooting of Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, The New York Times issued a correction to its June 14 editorial titled “America’s Lethal Politics”. “An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link […]

NC Board of Elections data reveals changes in files from late November to Feb. 13

NC Board of Elections data reveals changes in files from late November to Feb. 13

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 “Systematic weaknesses” that could “be exploited” to the benefit of one candidate over another made North Carolina vulnerable to voter fraud during the 2016 election, a resident of the state said. David W. Goetze is asking for an investigation into possible widespread voter fraud in the state. The retired […]

Report: NC school systems protecting teachers arrested for sex crimes

Report: NC school systems protecting teachers arrested for sex crimes

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 [Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this article cited a report from another publication about Robert Woodard’s previous record that had not been confirmed. That reference has been removed.] Some teachers in North Carolina who have been charged with sex crimes are being shifted to other schools rather than […]

Iran boat beams laser at U.S. helicopter over Strait of Hormuz

Iran boat beams laser at U.S. helicopter over Strait of Hormuz

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 An Iranian missile boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz on June 13 in what the U.S. military called an “unsafe and unprofessional” action. The Iranian vessel also turned its spotlight on two Navy ships that the helicopter was accompanying […]

AOL profile of Scalise shooter raises the question: Was he a hero?

AOL profile of Scalise shooter raises the question: Was he a hero?

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 A ‘Business Insiderprofile on AOL news of James Hodgkinson, who allegedly carried out the attack on Republican members of Congress at a June 14 practice’  for a charity baseball game, paints the picture of a “very mellow” business owner who “stayed up late” talking politics and whose alleged actions […]