Survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by wide margin

Survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by wide margin

Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. military personnel prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin, according to a 2016 election survey by Military Times. Trump garnered 54 percent compared to Clinton’s 25 percent in a survey of 951 active-duty service members. More than one in five troops said they’d rather not vote […]

Drudge: Beijing scrambles fighters as U.S. warship challenges maritime claims

Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 10, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Russia to test unstoppable ‘Satan 2’ missile… Mystery mission: Air Force space plane year in orbit… Say goodbye to OPEC, powerful Putin pal predicts… 1 Dead, 3 Injured in Munich Knife Attack… ‘Allahu akbar’… Saudi carries out 92nd execution of year… U.S. warship challenges China’s […]

Star of ISIL execution video killed by U.S. airstrike

Star of ISIL execution video killed by U.S. airstrike

Special to WorldTribune.com A senior leader for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) who had appeared in several of the terror group’s execution videos was killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Iraq on May 6, the Pentagon said. Abu Wahib, a top ISIL leader in Iraq’s Anbar province, and three other ISIL jihadists […]

Brazil soccer star: Anyone with plans to attend Olympics should stay at home

Brazil soccer star: Anyone with plans to attend Olympics should stay at home

Special to WorldTribune.com Fans who are set to attend the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro should re-think their plans, a top Brazilian soccer star said. The situation in Brazil is too dangerous for tourists, according to soccer star Rivaldo, who posted a warning on his Instagram account, alluding to the case of a 17-year-old […]

Austrian chancellor steps down amid tensions over migrant crisis

Austrian chancellor steps down amid tensions over migrant crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann resigned on May 9 amid the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe and a lack of support within his own Social Democrat party. “This country needs a chancellor who has the party’s full support,” Faymann said in a statement. Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, of coalition partner People’s Party, was […]

Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values

Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values

Special to WorldTribune.com Facebook systematically blacklisted news articles cast conservative politicians and conservative values in a positive light, former workers for the social media giant admitted. News stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section were suppressed. A former “news curator” on the “trending” section, said workers prevented stories […]

Inside the Obama ‘echo chamber’: Ben Rhodes admits public was misled about Iran talks

Inside the Obama ‘echo chamber’: Ben Rhodes admits public was misled about Iran talks

Special to WorldTribune.com The White House misled the American public on nuclear negotiations with Iran by “creating an echo chamber” in the press that “validated” everything they were given, a top adviser to President Barack Obama said. Ben Rhodes, in an interview with The New York Times, admitted that the dealings behind the accord struck […]

North Carolina governor sues Justice Department over HB2

North Carolina governor sues Justice Department over HB2

Special to WorldTribune.com Gov. Pat McCrory answered a May 9 deadline from the federal government by announcing that North Carolina will sue the Justice Department over its challenge to the state’s law mandating people use the public restroom of their birth gender, not gender identity. Last week, Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil […]