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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has met with his Security Council to discuss Moscow’s relations with Washington — a day before a meeting in Geneva between Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin’s Aug. 22 […]
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 22, 2018 PepsiCo on Aug. 20 bought the Israeli carbonated drink company SodaStream for $3.2 billion. SodaStream had long been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which heavily criticized the company for operating a factory in the West Bank. The BDS backlash led SodaStream to relocate the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Special Counsel Robert Mueller is closing in on President Trump. And if Trump doesn’t fight back — and soon — he will be facing impeachment. The president’s long-time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to tax fraud and campaign finance violations. Moreover, Cohen claimed in court as part […]
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 […]