by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2020 Communist China, which has a long track record of violating laws of the sea, now has a seat on a tribunal which settles international disputes on the sea. Duan Jielong was selected by the United Nations to serve a nine-year term as a judge to the International Tribunal for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2020 An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Aug. 24 directs federal agencies to move their offices to Opportunity Zones to spur investment in some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, a report said. There are more than 8,800 low-income communities that have been designated Opportunity Zones by Trump’s […]
FPI / August 28, 2020 President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the conclusion of Thursday’s Republican National Convention: Friends, delegates, and distinguished guests: I stand before you tonight honored by your support; proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four years; and brimming with confidence in the bright future we […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2020 Joe Biden is “politically vulnerable” on the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump “should prosecute that case,” Karl Rove noted in an Aug. 26 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. In delivering a takedown of Biden’s assertion he would have handled the pandemic better than Trump, Rove noted that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2020 A lawyer who assisted Nick Sandmann in suing CNN and The Washington Post is helping to fund the legal defense for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged in the Kenosha, Wisconsin fatal shootings. A legal team from the #FightBack Foundation said it will be part of Rittenhouse’s defense team. #FightBack […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The Republican and Democratic Party conventions convey opposite views of America. One is a land of opportunity, abundance, interracial partnerships and historical achievements; the other is of a country on its knees, broken by racism and misogyny—and with an economy brought to the brink of collapse by a menacing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2020 The last three months of violent rioting will “look relatively mild” with a Joe Biden administration in the White House, a former National Security Council (NSC) official told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. The 2020 election will determine whether “we have civilization or not,” Michael Anton, author of “The Stakes: […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2020 According to a July study in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), non-covid deaths from causes such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes have increased during the pandemic while emergency room visits for those conditions were down. The JAMA study found huge increases in excess deaths […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2020 The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that its civil rights division has requested data from the governors of states who issued coronavirus orders which “may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.” The DOJ requested the data from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2020 A Minnesota Democrat, terrified by the violence that has gripped her state, called in to C-SPAN during Wednesday’s Republican National Convention to say that she saw “hope” in what was being conveyed at the RNC, a marked difference from what she saw at last week’s Democrat convention. “This convention […]