by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 A federal court’s ruling that struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law could lead to massive voter fraud in November, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said. In striking down the 2013 North Carolina law, a panel of three Democratic-appointed judges on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The almost total absence of public mourning for an 85-year-old Christian priest whose throat was slit by Islamicist terrorists while he led prayer in a small church in Normandy, France, is a scandal. Even the French have demonstrated less feeling for this horrendous deed than one would expect […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 The Obama administration airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran just as the Islamic republic was freeing four American hostages, a report said. Wooden pallets stacked with Euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies were transported to Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, the Wall Street Journal reported on Aug. 2, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 Germany’s vice chancellor said the EU “will not be blackmailed” after Turkey threatened to walk away from its agreement to reduce the flow of migrants into Europe. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara would bail on the agreement if it does not receive visa-free travel for Turks in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 Syrian government forces launched a massive counter-attack to reclaim a number of strategic areas in the southwest suburbs of Aleppo on Aug. 2. Backed by heavy Russian air support, Assad-regime forces took back a series of hilltops and villages on the southwest edges of Aleppo that had been seized […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2016 Significant cost-cutting measures and the ability to quickly erect new rigs has enabled Texas shale oil producers to “compete with anything Saudi Arabia has,” a report said. Scott Sheffield, the outgoing chief of Pioneer Natural Resources, told Bloomberg that pre-tax production costs in the massive Permian Basin of West […]
by WorldTribune Staff, Aug. 2, 2016 President Barack Obama used a joint press conference with the prime minister of Singapore and his bully pulpit at the White House today to discredit the man who has promised to take his place. Obama said Donald Trump does not have the judgment or temperament or understanding to be […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2016 Russia continues to tip the scales in its ally Bashar Assad’s favor as Vladimir Putin’s air force has led the way in repelling a rebel offensive in Aleppo, Syria. Russian warplanes pounded the southern edges of Aleppo on Aug. 1, slowing a “last chance” rebel offensive against Assad’s forces, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2016 The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement set a list of characteristically aggressive goals during its Equality Forum summit at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The LGBT movement has four priorities on its list of goals, number one being passage of the Equality Act. The federal legislation sponsored […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2016 For a political party that likes to talk about reigning in Wall Street and “getting money out of politics,” the Democrats sure like Wall Street cash. To say that hedge fund donors, for example, are heavily favoring Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race is a […]
