by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 “Would a Democratic House, assuming we get one, really impeach a president for paying hush money to old girlfriends?” columnist Pat Buchanan asked. “Paying girlfriends to keep past indiscretions private is neither a crime nor a campaign violation,” Buchanan wrote on Aug. 23, adding that Donald Trump “could legally […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2018 Saying his “conscience dictates” that the truth be revealed, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States said that Pope Francis knew of and ignored sex abuse allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. “The corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal has put a “real crimp” into Teheran’s economy, said national security adviser John Bolton, and the Islamic Republic may try to retaliate by meddling in the U.S. midterm elections. Iran, Russia, China and North Korea are the four […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 FBI agents are privately voicing frustration that the agency and the Department of Justice have focused almost exclusively on investigations of Trump-Russia collusion while allowing probes on other major issues to die, including Hillary Clinton’s ties to the sale of U.S. uranium rights to a Russian-controlled company. “It seems […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 A dozen of the largest U.S. tech companies sent representatives to a private meeting on Aug. 24 to discuss how to handle warring political digital media strategies ahead of the 2018 midterms. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited the companies, which include Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Aug. 23 said an outside firm would be retained to investigate how university and local police responded to the toppling of the Confederate Silent Sam statue on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. A mob of some 250 protesters toppled the statue […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 A conservative think tank reported that it had its donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard after it was labeled a “hate group” by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The David Horowitz Freedom Center in an email to supporters said the SPLC had convinced Mastercard and […]
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 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, just days after being sworn in, is looking to avert a financial crisis that could see the country turn over many of its strategic assets to China. Khan, a former cricket star, “must choose whether to dial back a Chinese-financed development program or increase […]
