by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2017 Can the Republic hold? “We may be richer and healthier and safer in the aggregate than our predecessors. But the parade of ugliness we face bears more than a passing resemblance to theirs,” Matthew Continetti, Editor in Chief of the Washington Free Beacon, wrote in a Nov. 17 column […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The aftershock of the great Pohang earthquake in South Korea has been dramatic, intense, and controversial. That’s a reference to the abrupt cancellation of the greatest event in the lives of thousands of Korean high school students, namely the examination that all of them have to take, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2017 The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) remains all Democrats after the group on Nov. 16 denied membership to Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo. “I think it was pre-cooked,” said Curbelo, who represents a Latino-heavy district in Miami that is a top target for Democrats in 2018. Some CHC members were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should resign amid allegations that at least two members of Congress, who still hold their seats, committed sexual harassment, radio host Mark Levin said. “Not to be provocative or controversial, but if this sexual harassment has been going on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s whirlwind trip to East Asia was fraught with both promise and peril; the promise of expanding commercial alliances and reinforcing military alliances, and the peril of confronting North Korea’s ominous nuclear threat. In Seoul, South Korea’s bustling and free capital, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2017 Within the next 20 years, life will be found somewhere amid the 3,500 exoplanets that have been discovered, a NASA researcher said. “I think that in 20 years we will have found one candidate that might be it,” said Tony del Genio of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2017 A government watchdog group announced it has filed a lawsuit against Kentucky over the state’s failure to reasonably maintain its voter registration lists. Judicial Watch alleges in the lawsuit that 48 Kentucky counties have more registered voters than citizens over the age of 18. “Kentucky has perhaps the dirtiest […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2017 Why are Yale students known as Elis? That question in the year 2017 can certainly be taken as rhetorical, but for history’s sake they are called Elis after the college’s namesake, Elihu Yale, a straight, white, wealthy male who profited greatly from trading slaves. Earlier this month, the head […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A new report says opium production in Afghanistan increased by 87 percent to a “record level” of 9,000 tons this year, compared with 2016 levels. That’s according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released on Nov. 15 by the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics and the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2017 Three employees at Voice of America (VOA) said the government radio broadcaster is seeking their dismissals for insubordination following their interview with Chinese dissident Guo Wengui. The three workers, Sasha Gong, Fred Wang, and Robert Li, were notified in letters Nov. 3 that VOA planned to fire them allegedly […]
