NC lawmaker to challenge tax-exempt status of NCAA

NC lawmaker to challenge tax-exempt status of NCAA

by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2017 The NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) engaged in political and lobbying activity when they canceled events in North Carolina over opposition to House Bill 2 and should be investigated for a possible violation of their tax-exempt status, a lawmaker said. “The NCAA and ACC have allegedly engaged in […]

Iowa high school students called racist for wearing U.S. flag colors to basketball game

Iowa high school students called racist for wearing U.S. flag colors to basketball game

by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2017 A group of students at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa were decried as racists for their actions at a recent basketball game. Their crime? They wore red, white and blue attire to the game against Des Moines North High School, which has players from refugee families, […]

Barack Obama and Richard Nixon: Neither approved the wiretaps of their political enemies

Barack Obama and Richard Nixon: Neither approved the wiretaps of their political enemies

by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 No evidence was ever produced that Richard Nixon approved the Watergate break-in. Likewise President Donald Trump has offered no proof that former President Barack Obama knew of the wiretapping of Trump Tower, media reports say. The Watergate scandal ended in Richard Nixon’s resignation and inspired a generation of adversarial […]

Journalists reporting critically on Feds’ handling of Oregon standoff charged with crimes

Journalists reporting critically on Feds’ handling of Oregon standoff charged with crimes

by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 Several journalists, bloggers and video teams who were critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada and the 2016 confrontation at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are facing criminal charges. Representatives of major media organizations, such as CNN and CBS, that covered […]

South Korean intelligence plot to purchase Peace Prize targeted the international media

South Korean intelligence plot to purchase Peace Prize targeted the international media

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Following is the fifth excerpt from a book by WorldTribune and Geostrategy-Direct columnist Donald Kirk and the Korean author Kim Ki-Sam, “How South Korea’s Kim Dae-Jung bought his Peace Prize and financed Kim Jong-Il’s nuclear program”. While the governments of South Korea and the United States helped suppress publication […]

ACLU to ‘resist Trump’ event: ‘You do the work in the streets, we’ll do the work in the courts’

ACLU to ‘resist Trump’ event: ‘You do the work in the streets, we’ll do the work in the courts’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 In what may be the ACLU’s version of March Madness, the group is coaching anti-Trump protesters on their rights to vocally oppose the president’s policies – and to remain silent when they get arrested. “We will bring all the lawsuits necessary to defend these rights,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony […]

Reports: Intelligence probe of Trump went beyond FISA mandates

Reports: Intelligence probe of Trump went beyond FISA mandates

by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 A second investigation, separate from a FISA warrant issued in October, targeted alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, a national security correspondent said. Citing senior U.S. officials, Sara Carter of Circa News told Fox News host Sean Hannity on March 8 that there were “two instances” of […]

NC senate leader accuses newspaper, Facebook of censoring reader comments

NC senate leader accuses newspaper, Facebook of censoring reader comments

by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate said the Raleigh News & Observer prodded Facebook to censor reader comments on news stories he had posted. “Today The News & Observer had Facebook delete hundreds of your comments on this page – just because they don’t like that we include […]

Profs ‘unsettled’ after gender-swap experiment failed to discredit Trump

Profs ‘unsettled’ after gender-swap experiment failed to discredit Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 Two New York University (NYU) professors who undertook an experiment with the intent of showing the gender bias Hillary Clinton faced in the 2016 election were “unsettled” when the outcome was the opposite of what they expected. Professors Maria Guadalupe and Joe Salvatore and audiences of the gender-swap mock […]

U.S. deploys new troops to Syria in fight to oust ISIS from Raqqa

U.S. deploys new troops to Syria in fight to oust ISIS from Raqqa

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty About 400 additional U.S. forces have been temporarily deployed to Syria with heavy artillery in preparation for a fight to oust the extremist group Islamic State (IS) from its self-declared headquarters in the northern city of Raqqa. U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for […]