by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2017 A U.S. aircraft carrier on March 21 deployed helicopter gunships to track two sets of Iranian fast-attack vessels during a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy said. Navy commanders told Reuters the USS George H.W. Bush confronted the Iranian boats after they approached a U.S.-led, five-vessel […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2017 As the world economy grew last year, global carbon dioxide emissions remained flat for a third year in a row, raising questions of whether the UN Paris climate agreement is necessary, a report said. The success of the shale gas industry, or fracking, paved the way as the United […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 A massive U.S. show of force and South Korea’s deployment of the THAAD missile defense system in response to a perpetually belligerent North Korea are raising tensions – and preparations for war – on the Korean Peninsula. The arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group is reportedly part […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 In questioning FBI Director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers, several Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 referenced the so-called “Trump dossier” which has been widely dismissed as a subsidized work of fiction. The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele suggested the Russians had […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 A trio of California Democrats are pushing legislation that would have the state divest from any company participating in the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall. The proposal by Democratic state representatives Phil Ting, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher and Eduardo Garcia would force California to end its pension investments […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 FBI Director James Comey, a man who “is answerable to not a single voter in the land,” launched investigations into both candidates in “the most contentious presidential campaign in recent American history,” a columnist noted on March 21. “For a guy who claims to be above or beneath or […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Like most U.S. pollsters and pundits, the Russians apparently felt Donald Trump had no chance of winning the presidency so set out to undermine Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said on March 20. “Late in the summer they concluded based on the polling that a lot of people […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard notes that U.S. President Donald Trump “can take heart from Ernest Hemingway…” In the last years of his life, Hemingway “was especially fearful of the FBI and the IRS” and believed “he was being wiretapped,” Engelhard, author of Indecent Proposal, wrote for Israel’s Arutz Sheva […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 North Carolina’s economy continues to roll in the aftermath of high-profile boycotts by the NCAA, the NBA, and the Boss over the state’s HB2 transgender bathroom bill. Earlier this month, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest told Texas lawmakers, who are considering a bill similar to HB2, that the economic effect […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 First, Hillary Clinton supporters blamed FBI Director James Comey for her epic fail. Then, they blamed Russian interference in the election. Now, it’s Comey’s failure to inform the public of Russian interference. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, the FBI director confirmed a months-long probe […]
