by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 Syria has “evolved” its chemical weapons arsenal and is developing new ways to use the weapons, U.S. officials say. Reports from Arab news outlets on Feb. 5 said a chemical weapons attack, believed to be chlorine gas, killed 20 people in a town in Idlib province. The forces of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 A new policy for Delaware schools drafted by Gov. John Carney would allow children in grades K-12 to select the race or gender with which they identify – without the consent of their parents, according to recent reports. The policy would even allow students “access to the hormone blockers […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 The NFL sacked a Super Bowl ad by a Bitcoin company that featured an actor portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The ad says: “North Korea’s top hacker has been totally unable to steal AML BitCoin for two days and Kim is mad.” The actor, who bears a striking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 A trail of “fingerprints” from the classified memo released on Feb. 2 by the House Intelligence Committee likely “leads to the Obama presidency,” Rep. Steve King said. During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace on April 10, 2016, then-President Barack Obama said: “I guarantee that there is no political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 President Donald Trump in an early morning tweet on Feb. 2 lashed out at a “politicized” FBI after the fabled agency publicly advised against releasing a classified memo said to question how it conducted its investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. Trump tweeted: “The top Leadership […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 2 was slated to meet with a group of defectors from North Korea, just days after the emotionally-stirring appearance of defector Ji Seong-Ho at the State of the Union address. The president is expected to meet with eight defectors in the Oval Office, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2018 Democrats called it the Trump Shutdown – the White House said it was the Schumer Shutdown. More Americans agree with the White House. According to a new poll by Zogby Analytics, congressional Democrats are more to blame for the recent government shutdown than the White House or Republicans. A […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from 85 federal, state and local agencies, carried out a statewide crackdown on human trafficking last week that resulted in 510 arrests. The operation also rescued 56 female trafficking victims, KTLA TV reported. During a Jan. 30 news conference, L.A. County Sheriff […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 Facebook’s advertising revenues increased by 49 percent in 2017 even though the number of users and the time spent by users on the site decreased. The trend shifts followed changes to the “algorithms” governing content distribution and impacting the bottom lines of competing news organizations, reports say. Meanwhile the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 In what a former CIA station chief in Moscow called a “highly unusual” occurrence, the leaders of Russia’s three top intelligence agencies were all in Washington, D.C. in recent days. Only one of the three recent visits by the spy chiefs was confirmed by Russia. Sergei Naryshkin, head of […]