Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — East Asian countries continue to be global leaders in economic growth despite ongoing trade tensions between the USA and China. Nonetheless, even among those dynamic Asian states, growth has tempered from 5.7 percent in 2018 to 5.2 percent in 2019 amid an international downshift. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 In a memo from his campaign this week, Joe Biden warned the media that reporting on the allegations against his son Hunter Biden, a central figure in the impeachment case against President Donald Trump, would make them “enablers of misinformation.” While he was vice president, and the Obama administration’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 As Democrats who hold the majority in the state’s legislature continue to chip away at their Second Amendment rights and focus spending on urban areas near Washington, D.C., rural Virginia counties may be looking to leave for West Virginia, a columnist wrote. “West Virginia lawmakers are scrambling to let […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is demanding detailed information on payments the Pentagon’s secretive Office of Net Assessment (ONA) made to an FBI informant who spied on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sen. Chuck Grassley, in a Jan. 22 letter the ONA Director James Baker, requested information […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 The Democrats’ lead impeachment manager has become a unifying force — for Republicans. “The more we hear from Adam Schiff, the more the GOP is getting unified against this partisan charade!” Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, tweeted on Wednesday. Paul, who has been a staunch defender of President Donald […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 As he continues to defy a court order to disclose his financial information as part of a child support fight, Hunter Biden is renting a $3.8 million designer home in Hollywood Hills, a tony hillside neighborhood of Los Angeles, for $12,000 per month, a report said. Biden has been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2020 The freshly minted Phase 1 of the U.S.-China trade deal will not stop the U.S. government from pursuing criminal cases against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, officials say. Huawei is the subject of criminal cases in New York and Washington state. “The Huawei prosecution in New York, it’s a sanctions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2020 The most read columnist for the Denver Post no longer has a job at the newspaper after he wrote that there are only two sexes. Jon Caldara said he was fired after he criticized an Associated Press directive saying that sex and gender are not binary and, later, a […]
FPI / January 22, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Still reeling from the loss of terror kingpin Qasem Soleimani, Iran suffered another major humiliation when its so-called elite aerospace forces mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane. The twin setbacks, from which the Islamic Republic may never fully recover, could be seen in the nation’s media. Soon after […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2020 If he were elected president, Joe Biden says he would not deport illegal immigrants who are arrested for drunk driving. Immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” Biden […]
