by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Former House IT aide Imran Awan pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and will not be prosecuted for any crimes on Capitol Hill, an assistant U.S. attorney said on July 3. In a plea agreement reached with the former systems administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller is expanding his investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election by dipping into the Justice Department’s well of resources to hire more prosecutors, a report said. “As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Facebook initially determined that a portion of the Declaration of Independence posted by a Texas community newspaper in the run-up to the July 4 holiday amounted to hate speech. In the days prior to July 4, the Liberty County Vindicator had posted small portions of the founding document on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2018 A ballot measure in November will ask North Carolina voters to decide if the state constitution should be amended to require photo ID for in-person voting. Republican lawmakers, who approved the ballot initiative over Democrats’ protests, say the photo ID requirement is necessary to prevent voter fraud and to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2018 Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok has been subpoenaed to testify at a public hearing on Capitol Hill next week. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, issued the subpoena for Strzok to appear at a joint hearing between the Judiciary and Oversight committees on July 10. After rejecting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 A group of U.S. lawmakers are calling on China to release a Christian minister from North Carolina who has been sentenced to seven years in prison in China for allegedly organizing illegal border crossings into Burma. Pastor John Cao, who is of Chinese origin, built 16 schools that serve […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 The House Democratic Caucus’s server went “missing” after it became evidence in the House IT scandal investigation connected to Imran Awan, a report said. A secret memo from the top law enforcement official in Congress also said more than “40 House offices may have been victims of IT security […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on July 2 became the fourth Trump administration official to be harassed in public at a restaurant. According to a Facebook post, Kristin Mink, a teacher at the elite private school Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C. where President Barack Obama sent his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 A co-director of the upcoming movie “Roe v. Wade” said it has been filmed in relative secrecy in New Orleans out of consideration for the security of the cast and crew. Several people working on the film quit and two colleges where it was set to film would not […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 Palestinians loyal to Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas rallied in Ramallah on July 2 to protest what they say are attempts by the United States “to impose its plans in the area.” Protesters expressed support for Abbas and the PA leadership’s rejection of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle […]
