by WorldTribune Staff, October 18, 2016 An ISIL-supporting Iraqi refugee living in Houston has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges for plotting to detonate homemade bombs at Houston-area shopping malls. Omar Faraj Saeed al-Hardan, 24, pleaded guilty in a Houston federal court on Oct. 17. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Hardan entered the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2016 A force of 30,000 Iraqi army, Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni tribal fighters launched an offensive on Oct. 17 to retake Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “I announce today the start of the heroic operations to free you from the terror and oppression of Daesh,” Iraqi […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2016 The Oct. 16 firebombing of Republican party headquarters in Orange County, North Carolina and vandalizing of an adjacent building with the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” was “an attack on our democracy,” North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said. “Violence has no place in our society – but […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 Scott Rasmussen, the founder of Rasmussen Reports and co-founder of ESPN, says that he has lost faith in the political process – but not in the United States and its citizens. “America’s best days are still to come,” Rasmussen told an audience of students at The King’s College in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2016 Just one health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, remains in North Carolina. And its rates are rising by about 25 percent. “In no other state will as many people find such limited choice. But what is happening to North Carolinians epitomizes a national checkerboard of ACA haves and have-nots,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 U.S.-Russia relations have deteriorated rapidly in recent days, with President Barack Obama vowing to launch a cyber war against Moscow for its alleged meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Democrats hit the warpath after accusing Russia of hacking the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 Network news broadcasts, watched by an average of 22 to 24 million Americans each night, devoted less than a minute of coverage to the latest WikiLeaks revelations on Oct. 13 compared to 23 minutes on the unsubstantiated allegations of unwanted sexual advances lodged by four women against GOP candidate […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 NBC should release in full its initial interview with Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick, journalist Michael Issikoff said. Isikoff, the reporter who broke the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair, said in an Oct. 13 discussion on sidewire.com that NBC should release the tape of an interview […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has widened what has become huge divide in the country, and even in some households. The escalating tension is even driving some American voters away from normal pastimes like watching NFL games and from there, around the bend. More than half of Americans say […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 Donald Trump is packing huge arenas with tens of thousands of supporters on a daily basis while Hillary Clinton plays to much smaller audiences. Media consumers limited to major outlets would never be aware of this huge discrepancy in attendance, online critics have pointed out. The same is even […]
