by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2018 Lawmakers on two House committees are threatening punitive action against Department of Justice and FBI officials this week. At issue are allegations of anti-Trump bias in the FBI, the agency’s mishandling of the Trump-Russia investigation, and the continued failure by the DOJ and FBI to release subpoenaed documents. Deputy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2018 A limited immunity deal the Department of Justice was considering for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was killed when then-FBI Director James Comey intervened, a report said. The deal, which could have temporarily freed Assange from a London embassy where he has been in exile for years, was derailed by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2018 President Donald Trump on June 25 ripped into late night comedians and noted that his hair, which has been the subject of many a late-night attempted joke, has endured “winds that are 60 miles an hour.” Trump, during a rally in South Carolina, called comedian Jimmy Fallon talentless. Fallon […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler HAMBURG — Witnessing the early stages of the World Cup Football extravaganza offers an amazing sporting experience. Indeed, the enthusiasm is palpable and contagious as the early matches kicked off in a near carnival atmosphere. For a full month, soccer games across Russia will lead to the coveted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 Iraq will undertake a hand recount of all 11 million ballots from last month’s parliamentary elections amid widespread allegations of voter fraud. Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court cleared the way for the recount last week by ruling the parliament’s decision to manually recount votes is constitutional. Judge Medhat al-Mahmoud read […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” “Terminate the Republican Party,” “Expose Republican Fraud,” “Donald […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 In the summer of 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen issued sounded the alarm on global warming. In testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Hansen expressed a “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.” With his testimony, Hansen […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 An activist who once fought for LGBT rights in Israel is in a new battle – to evict thousands of illegal immigrants from her south Tel Aviv neighborhood. According to police statistics, 90 percent of African asylum seekers in Israel live in south Tel Aviv. “What happened with the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 A top aide on Sen. John McCain’s staff recommended that the IRS target conservative non-profit groups until they were financially unable to continue operating, a government watchdog group said. Judicial Watch released internal IRS documents revealing that Henry Kerner, McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 Expanding family detention and separating families was “necessary” in 2014 and still is today, Obama administration Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson said. In a June 24 interview on Fox News Sunday, Johnson was shown pictures of detained children from 2014 and asked by host Chris Wallace […]
