by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2025 Real World News California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that the state secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from FEMA “to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the Hurst Fire burning in Los Angeles County as extreme fire weather continues in Southern California.” Critics […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2025 Real World News During an October interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said: “I was in [California] farm country with some of the congressmen. We’re driving up a highway and I say, ‘How come all this land is so barren?’ It’s farmland and it looked […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2025 Real World News South Korea President Yoon Suk-Yeol’s approval rating, and that of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) he leads, has surged in the weeks since he declared martial law on Dec. 3. A public opinion poll conducted by the Public Opinion Survey Fair on Jan. 7-9 shows […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2025 Real World News New revelations have emerged daily of the roles played by California state and local government in a historic wildfire disaster in Los Angeles. Meanwhile a report pointed to homeowners nationwide sharing the insurance burden despite living far from impacted wildfire and hurricane zones. One day before […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2025 Real World News With Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the liberals, the United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s petition to block his Friday sentencing in the New York “hush money” lawfare case. The decision which led to the branding […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2025 Real World News Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 9, 2025 Everybody, it seems, is suddenly interested in Greenland. Not just the United States, but Canada, Russia, China all are vying for a foothold on the Arctic island. A fantastically beautiful but often foreboding place locked in ice and isolation, Greenland’s remoteness has been both its […]
FPI / January 10, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For its first satellite launch for 2025, China decided to demonstrate the dual-use nature of its space program, by launching its Shi Jian (Experimental)-25 satellite, ostensibly to test satellite refueling, but which can also perfect satellite interception, capture and destruction skills for the new Aerospace Force […]
FPI / January 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct In the second Trump administration, U.S. troops in South Korea may be expected to focus primarily on defending against the threat from China, rather than North Korea analysts say. Elbridge Colby, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is skeptical that North Korea will give […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 9, 2025 Real World News Six million Californians voted for Donald trump in the 2024 presidential election. He still lost the state by 20 points. As fires devastated the greater Los Angeles area, is the thoroughly Democrat Golden State now reaping what it sowed? Just last month Los Angeles Mayor Karen […]