FBI interviews reveal IRS delayed Tea Party applications until after 2012 campaign

FBI interviews reveal IRS delayed Tea Party applications until after 2012 campaign

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2016 Employees at the IRS’s Cincinnati office said that the agency “deliberately” delayed processing Tea Party tax exemption applications until after the 2012 presidential election, Judicial Watch reported on Aug. 1. According to 105 pages of newly obtained FBI “302” documents, interviews with numerous Cincinnati IRS employees in mid-2013 show […]

Supreme Court rules Virginia school can block transgender teen from using boys’ bathroom

Supreme Court rules Virginia school can block transgender teen from using boys’ bathroom

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2016 The U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 3 ruled that a Virginia school board can block a transgender teen from using the boys bathroom when the school year starts in September. The high court, in a 5-3 decision, put on hold a lower court ruling that ordered the Gloucester County […]

Turkish lawyer files criminal conspiracy complaint against top U.S. military leaders

Turkish lawyer files criminal conspiracy complaint against top U.S. military leaders

by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 A Turkish lawyer has accused top U.S. military officials of conspiring with Turkish coup plotters at Incirlik air base. The lawyer on Aug. 2 filed a criminal complaint against Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander for […]

Israeli ‘smart fence’ firm says business is booming; Trump’s wall? No problem

Israeli ‘smart fence’ firm says business is booming; Trump’s wall? No problem

by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has vowed that a wall will be put up at the U.S. southern border and that Mexico will pay for it. And, now, an Israeli firm says it will build Trump’s wall. Magal Security Systems Ltd. said it is ready, willing and able to […]

Trump, N.C. conservatives call voter ID ruling a green light for voter fraud

Trump, N.C. conservatives call voter ID ruling a green light for voter fraud

by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 A federal court’s ruling that struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law could lead to massive voter fraud in November, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said. In striking down the 2013 North Carolina law, a panel of three Democratic-appointed judges on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said […]

Report: White House shipped $400 million in unmarked plane to Iran on day American hostages left

Report: White House shipped $400 million in unmarked plane to Iran on day American hostages left

by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 The Obama administration airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran just as the Islamic republic was freeing four American hostages, a report said. Wooden pallets stacked with Euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies were transported to Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, the Wall Street Journal reported on Aug. 2, […]

Report: Texas shale can ‘compete with anything Saudi Arabia has’

Report: Texas shale can ‘compete with anything Saudi Arabia has’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2016 Significant cost-cutting measures and the ability to quickly erect new rigs has enabled Texas shale oil producers to “compete with anything Saudi Arabia has,” a report said. Scott Sheffield, the outgoing chief of Pioneer Natural Resources, told Bloomberg that pre-tax production costs in the massive Permian Basin of West […]

Dump Trump now: Obama says Trump is ‘unfit’ and that GOP’s McCain and Ryan agree

Dump Trump now: Obama says Trump is ‘unfit’ and that GOP’s McCain and Ryan agree

by WorldTribune Staff, Aug. 2, 2016 President Barack Obama used a joint press conference with the prime minister of Singapore and his bully pulpit at the White House today to discredit the man who has promised to take his place. Obama said Donald Trump does not have the judgment or temperament or understanding to be […]

LGBT lobby sets priorities after convention, address lack of diversity in own leadership

LGBT lobby sets priorities after convention, address lack of diversity in own leadership

by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2016 The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement set a list of characteristically aggressive goals during its Equality Forum summit at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The LGBT movement has four priorities on its list of goals, number one being passage of the Equality Act. The federal legislation sponsored […]

Hedge fund donations favor Clinton, $123M to $19K for Trump

Hedge fund donations favor Clinton, $123M to $19K for Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2016 For a political party that likes to talk about reigning in Wall Street and “getting money out of politics,” the Democrats sure like Wall Street cash. To say that hedge fund donors, for example, are heavily favoring Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race is a […]