by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a group of “radical feminists”, has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s guidelines on transgender people’s use of public bathrooms. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on Aug. 18, says that two WoLF’s New Mexico members, identified in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The U.S. State Department said it released $400 million in cash to Iran under a court settlement in January only after it was assured that American prisoners had been freed by Tehran. It was the first public acknowledgement of a link between the cash payment and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 Latino students with conservative leanings are finding life difficult on the allegedly “liberal” bastions that are American college campuses. They have been “cast as traitors” and in some instances threatened for daring to deviate from leftist position deemed socially acceptable. George Washington University student Diego Rebollar told The College […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Aug. 19 visited Louisiana to lend his support to citizens of a state that has been devastated by recent flooding. Meanwhile, the leaders of the same party that savaged President George W. Bush for his response to hurricane Katrina had no plans to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — A vital American ally has gone geopolitically adrift in the wake of Turkey’s failed military coup, and the subsequent crackdown on all forms of domestic political dissent by the strongman ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The bloody coup in which hundreds died, nonetheless served as a tragic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 Russia would never have used Iranian air bases for attacks in Syria before U.S. President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Teheran, When the world was sanctioning Iran, “the Russians kept the regime at arm’s length,” the Jerusalem Post said in an analysis on Aug. 18. Two weeks ago, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 President Barack Obama is set to relinquish the last vestiges of U.S. control of the Internet. Barring “any significant impediment” the Department of Commerce will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lawrence Strickling said on Aug. 16. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded contracts as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The prospect of a missile war between North and South Korea poses a threat to regional stability that previously seemed unimaginable. Images of North and South Korean gunners firing ballistic missiles at one another from redoubts far north and south of the demilitarized zone are edging closer to reality […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 Evidence from the voting booth actually contradicts Democrats’ claims that voter ID laws are forms of voter suppression, particularly minority voters. In 2010, “before North Carolina passed its supposedly evil Jim Crow throwback,” 40.3 percent of blacks in the state voted in that year’s midterms. In 2014, after the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 A Jewish woman who refused to convert to radical Islam managed to escape from Iraq after her husband threatened to sell her as a slave to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The woman was reunited this week with her family in the town of Patish in southern […]
