by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 A delegation from South Korea’s opposition party visited Washington, D.C. this week to press the Trump administration for the “redeployment” of nuclear weapons in South Korea. “We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea,” Lee Cheol-Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 13 issued an order blocking the sale of a Portland, Oregon-based technology firm to China. Trump’s order stopped the proposed $1.3 billion sale of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. to Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, which the White House described as a “Chinese corporation owned by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 The U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 13 voted to prevent sales of commercial aircraft to Iran. Rep. Peter Roskam, Illinois Republican, said the move was necessary due to Iran’s use of commercial airliners to transport weapons and troops to Syria. Iran has also used commercial flights to smuggle […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 Newly released documents from the State Department obtained by a government watchdog group provides further evidence of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton receiving emails containing classified information through the unsecure, non-state.gov account of Human Abedin. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch included 97 email exchanges with Clinton not previously turned over […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan said he believed just “one member” of the House wanted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a former congressman said. The speaker made the comments at a private dinner earlier this year, Breitbart News reported, citing multiple sources with direct knowledge of the comments, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 A U.S. National Security Council (NSC) member appointed by H.R. McMaster was asked by members of an Israeli delegation to leave a meeting at the White House, a report said. NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism Mustafa Javed Ali was asked by the Israelis to leave the meeting in late August, […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 Since the mid-Twentieth Century, it has fallen to the United States of America to deal with apocalyptic and devastating crises around the world including the World Wars and the Cold War. The emergence on the world stage in 2017 of North Korea — a belligerent communist rogue state […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 A Chinese billionaire who received death threats after exposing corruption in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) leadership has a “strong claim” for asylum in the United States, the businessman’s lawyer said. Guo Wengui, a Chinese real estate magnate now living in New York, announced the decision to seek political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 Marking the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the United States “never asked for this fight” but is “steadfastly committed to seeing it through.” “Maniacs disguised in false religious garb thought, by hurting us, they could scare us that day,” Mattis said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 Sens. Tim Kaine and Elizabeth Warren are among several top-ranking Democrats who accepted campaign donations from the political action committee of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, records show Menendez is facing trial on 12 counts of corruption on allegations that he accepted campaign contributions and free trips from […]
