by WorldTribune Staff, July 6, 2018 A millennial New York socialist being touted by high-ranking Democrats as the future of the party displayed overt capitalist leanings in the not-too-distant past. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th District, advocated for tax cuts when she was running a business of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Former House IT aide Imran Awan pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and will not be prosecuted for any crimes on Capitol Hill, an assistant U.S. attorney said on July 3. In a plea agreement reached with the former systems administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller is expanding his investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election by dipping into the Justice Department’s well of resources to hire more prosecutors, a report said. “As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2018 A ballot measure in November will ask North Carolina voters to decide if the state constitution should be amended to require photo ID for in-person voting. Republican lawmakers, who approved the ballot initiative over Democrats’ protests, say the photo ID requirement is necessary to prevent voter fraud and to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2018 Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok has been subpoenaed to testify at a public hearing on Capitol Hill next week. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, issued the subpoena for Strzok to appear at a joint hearing between the Judiciary and Oversight committees on July 10. After rejecting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 A group of U.S. lawmakers are calling on China to release a Christian minister from North Carolina who has been sentenced to seven years in prison in China for allegedly organizing illegal border crossings into Burma. Pastor John Cao, who is of Chinese origin, built 16 schools that serve […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller was granted wide latitude by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to pursue any alleged contact between Russia and the Trump campaign not matter how “stale” it is, a judge said. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, who is presiding over Mueller’s case against former Trump campaign […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2018 The school board in Fairfax County, Virginia last month voted to adopt a new sex-education program which critics say teaches children “they weren’t actually born male or female.” The new “Family Life Education Program” passed by the school board scraps “biological sex” and instead teaches that sex is a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2018 A U.S. citizen who had expressed support for Al Qaida in social media posts was arrested for planning to load a van with explosives and carry out a July 4 terrorist attack in downtown Cleveland, the FBI said. Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, also known as Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, was arrested […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2018 When it came to North Korea, President Donald Trump was willing to meet with its leaders to defuse a potential threat to U.S. national security. But he appears to be viewing another rogue state differently. Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and current personal lawyer to U.S. President […]
