by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 In a series raids on April 18, Hong Kong police arrested 15 pro-democracy activists in what reports said was the biggest crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement since the outbreak of mass protests last year. Among those detained on charges of illegal assembly were Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday issued a series of executive orders aimed at re-opening the state amid the coronavirus crisis. “Because of the efforts by everyone to slow the spread, we’re now beginning to see glimmers that the worst of COVID-19 may soon be behind us,” Abbott said, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 Yes, President Donald Trump’s name will be printed on coronavirus relief checks. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said it was his idea to do so. “The president could have been authorized to sign the checks. That would have slowed things down. We didn’t want to do that. We did put […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 The record clearly shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed the world on the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. Chinese health officials knew the virus was spreading between humans by mid-January. But, on Jan. 14, the WHO stated that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The United States can force China to pay reparations for the damages it inflicted on the world via its negligence in handling the Wuhan coronavirus, a U.S. congressman said. The United Nations International Court of Justice can be used to hold China financially accountable, Rep. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has projected that debt held by the public due to the coronavirus crisis “will exceed the size of the economy by the end of Fiscal Year 2020 and eclipse the prior record set after World War II by 2023.” The budget-focused think […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 President Donald Trump called on Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia to “liberate” amid coronavirus lockdown orders that are getting “carried away.” Trump called out Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who on Friday signed several gun control measures into law, including reinstating the state’s “one-handgun-a-month” rule and legislation that expands gun-purchase […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 Americans are struggling mightily to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. Many wait for days just to file for unemployment on overloaded state websites. Some who filed in March have yet to receive their first weekly check. Others struggling to make ends meet are waiting in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 A journalist lied when he told President Donald Trump at a recent White House press conference he was working out of Taiwan. The journalist actually works for a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a report revealed. The National Pulse exposed Ching-Yi Chang on April 9, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 touted its “strategic partnership” with China at the same time its new director-general traveled to Beijing to cement the organization’s ties with the communist nation. “Director-General leads WHO delegation to the Belt and Road Forum for Health Cooperation” said a WHO press […]
