by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2018 The United States has condemned Moscow’s opening of the Kerch Strait Bridge between Russia and Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin drove an orange Kamaz truck across the bridge as he opened the road to car traffic on May 15. “In different historical epochs, even under the tsar priests, people […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2018 Thousands of North Carolina teachers on May 16 rallied in downtown Raleigh to press state lawmakers for increased funding for education. The rally forced the closing of many of the state’s schools and left a number of parents scrambling to find childcare, reports said. On May 14, North Carolina […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2018 The FBI appears to have successfully inserted a spy into the Trump campaign, reports say. “When the FBI talks about a source, they talk about someone who is an average citizen who uses their credentials, their job as a way of spying for the agency,” the Wall Street Journal’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2018 Journalist and nonfiction novelist Tom Wolfe, who wrote such classics as “The Right Stuff”, “Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full” passed away on May 14. He was 88. William F. Buckley Jr., writing in National Review, said of Wolfe: “He is probably the most skillful writer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2018 A Russian oligarch who is now a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation spent millions of dollars in an attempt to rescue an American held hostage in Iran at the time Mueller was director of the FBI, a report said. Details of the FBI’s 2009 deal with Russian […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2018 The U.S. Supreme Court on May 14 struck down a 1992 law that barred state-authorized sports gambling. Gaming industry analysts estimated 32 states would likely offer sports betting within five years of the ruling, The Associated Press reported. In a 6-3 ruling, the court struck down the Professional and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2018 Congressional investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election have also uncovered details of how Obama loyalists set out to make the presidential transition a living hell for the incoming Trump administration. Republican investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the Senate Judiciary Committee found “a number […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2018 Webb Simpson won the Players Championship by four strokes on May 13, after dominating the field in his first PGA Tour victory in more than four years. “The Players” at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course is considered a major test of golf with its treacherous par-3 No. 17 “Island Green”. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2018 A Democrat lawmaker has introduced a bill in the California Assembly that would replace either George Washington or Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with International Socialist Workers’ Day. The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, would allow schools to replace Washington Day and Lincoln Day with Presidents’ Day and install an “International […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2018 A movement to protest what it calls “pornographic” sex education, which was launched in Charlotte, North Carolina, spread to 16 cities in four nations and resulted in the Sex Ed Sit Out last month. Regina Young, a Sex Ed Sit Out organizer and parent in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, […]
