June 4, 1989: Remembering Tiananmen and the young protesters in Hong Kong

June 4, 1989: Remembering Tiananmen and the young protesters in Hong Kong

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2026 Non-AI Real World News On June 4, 1989, communist Chinese military troops and tanks stormed Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, violently crushing a student-led pro-democracy movement. The armed assault resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries. Lee Faulkner noted in a post to LinkedIn: This is what Hong Kong used to […]

Report: Continued U.S. restrictions on intelligence sharing raises concerns in Seoul

Report: Continued U.S. restrictions on intelligence sharing raises concerns in Seoul

Special to WorldTribune, June 4, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, June 2, 2026 The United States since early April has restricted the sharing of North Korea-related intelligence with South Korea. The U.S. made the move after South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-Young during a parliamentary audit identified “Kusong in North Pyongan Province” as the location […]

Doomed statues stage comeback as nation’s 250th birthday approaches

Doomed statues stage comeback as nation’s 250th birthday approaches

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2026 Non-AI Real World News American historical statues that were torn down during the 2020 Antifa/BLM riots are making a comeback. Some statues have been restored to public view on government orders and the support of residents, while others returned to public view as part of traveling museum exhibits. “The […]

Debbie does racism? Wasserman Schultz now running in district long held by black Democrats

Debbie does racism? Wasserman Schultz now running in district long held by black Democrats

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Looks like DEI goes out the window when your lucrative position is on the line. After redistricting in Florida put her tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives in major jeopardy, Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided she would simply run in another district. Instead […]

Democrats need mail-in ballots to keep Spencer Pratt from runoff

Democrats need mail-in ballots to keep Spencer Pratt from runoff

by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The credibility of California’s election system is in question as voters cast ballots in a gubernatorial primary that may not produce definitive results for days or even weeks. And then there is L.A. As of Wednesday afternoon, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had secured enough […]

Fraud becomes the headline, tainting election day in South Korea

Fraud becomes the headline, tainting election day in South Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Conservatives and independent media have since 2020 alleged that South Korea’s election system is rife with fraud. Legacy media, however, have dismissed such allegations as “conspiracy theories” and non-newsworthy. That was then, this is now. During Wednesday’s voting in local elections, voters at what are […]

Victory Day at Red Square droned into submission this year; Will Putin blink?

Victory Day at Red Square droned into submission this year; Will Putin blink?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 3, 2026 There’s been a subtle but overlooked shift in the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. Despite grueling causalities and losses on both sides in the fighting, the Kremlin leadership has been able to keep the worst effects of the conflict away from key populations in […]

Rubio slams Democrats at House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting

Rubio slams Democrats at House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting

by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confronted by Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday who had complex matters of national security on their mind. One, Ted Lieu of California, showed multiple videos of President Donald Trump that he alleged showed him sleeping […]

‘I wish them all well’: NY Times horrified by ‘exodus of lawyers’ from DOJ; Trump celebrates

‘I wish them all well’: NY Times horrified by ‘exodus of lawyers’ from DOJ; Trump celebrates

by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2026 Non-AI Real World News A number of the Deep State lawyers who prosecuted the Joe Biden-Merrick Garland lawfare scheme against President Donald Trump and his supporters have been fired from the Department of Justice. And The New York Times is outraged. “President Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has […]

Hate on steroids: Is Christianity the only solution for Iran War?

Hate on steroids: Is Christianity the only solution for Iran War?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2026 Non-AI Real World News [The latest developments in Iran and Israel call into question the region’s eye-for-an-eye theological consensus as Christians remain an endangered or marginalized minority in the nations that saw Christianity’s birth. Jesus Christ taught followers to “love your enemies,” Matthew 5:43-44.] Writing for Christianity Today […]