by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2025 Real World News In 2017, Friedrich Merz vowed in an interview with Bild magazine to “halve” the AfD vote. Instead, the AfD vote doubled, hitting 10 million in the Bundestag election in February of this year. According to new polls, the AfD is the most popular party in Germany. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2025 Real World News Missouri residents may soon be able to pay their taxes, and possibly even their groceries, with gold and silver. A bill to make gold and silver legal tender has passed both houses of the state’s General Assembly as an amendment to a sweeping finance-related bill that […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News May 8, 2025 Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago was elected pope by the 133 voting cardinals at the Vatican conclave on Thursday. He is the first American pope and will be called Pope Leo XIV. White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signaling […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2025 Real World News Has President Donald Trump’s effort to reform the Department of Justice been torpedoed by a Republican senator? Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is withholding support for Ed Martin, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Update: Trump on Thursday said he would […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2025 Real World News Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard singled out the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday after the outlet published a report claiming that a new U.S. intelligence effort was focused on Greenland. The move to increase intelligence operations in Greenland, likely tied to President Donald Trump’s longstanding […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked attacks in late […]
FPI / May 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy have funded laboratories at American universities which in their research used Chinese supercomputers that have contributed to the communist nation’s military buildup. L.J. Eads, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, said the obvious: Such practices endangers national security. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2025 Real World News The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 shooting at the Republican team’s practice for the year’s congressional baseball game, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said. In a report released on Tuesday, the committee said the FBI used “false statements” and “manipulated known facts” […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News May 7, 2025 Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin has conceded defeat in his 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race against Democrat incumbent Judge Allison Riggs. After months of lawsuits challenging votes, Griffin conceded on Wednesday, two days after a federal judge ordered the state’s Board of Elections to certify […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump called on the Department of Justice to take all possible actions to secure the release from a Colorado prison of “political prisoner” Tina Peters. Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for what prosecutors said was her […]
