by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2018 Russia for years “has looked the other way” as its ally Syria has used chemical weapons on its own citizens, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said at a UN Security Council meeting on Jan. 23. Calling Russia “complicit in the Assad regime’s atrocities,” Haley cited reports […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2018 The sheriff of northern Virginia’s Fairfax County said the county will no longer honor federal immigration officials’ requests on extending the detention of illegal aliens, a report said. Sheriff Stacey A. Kincaid announced on Jan. 23 that her department will continue to share information on people booked into the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2018 A 2005 photograph of then-Sen. Barack Obama and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan could have been disastrous for Obama’s political career if it had been released at the time, the journalist who took the photo said. “I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2018 Rather than fire Robert Mueller, President Donald Trump should use his power to “exercise control” over the special counsel, a former Justice Department official said. “Trump has prevailed, and, indeed, prospered, so far, only because of his larger than life personality,” Peter Ferrara, who served as Associate Deputy Attorney […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2018 Addictive opioids can readily be ordered from China and shipped to America via the United States Postal Service (USPS), lawmakers say. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said that its investigators found through Google searches “hundreds of pages offering to sell” opioids, including highly-addictive fentanyl. The committee’s chariman, Ohio […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2018 Attorneys for legendary drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán said there is no need to keep jurors in his federal trial anonymous and under armed guard. Why? El Chapo has vowed not to have them killed. Special protection “sends the message to each juror that he or she needs […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2018 The leader of a synagogue in Tampa, Florida was one of four Americans killed in a Jan. 20 Taliban attack in Afghanistan, the State Department said. Glenn Selig, the two-term president of Congregation Mekor Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Tampa, was killed during a 13-hour siege by the Taliban […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2018 Twitter’s analytics show that the #ReleaseTheMemo social media campaign went viral because of interested Americans, not Russian troll and bot farms as Democrats had suggested. The #ReleaseTheMemo campaign seeks the release of a four-page report by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that alleges abuses related to the discredited […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2018 Republican lawmakers are demanding explanations from the FBI after newly-released text messages between a pair of anti-Trump FBI agents referenced a “secret society” being formed to derail then President-elect Donald Trump. Also troubling are missing text messages from 5 critical months. “The day after the election … there is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was “a declaration of a new Jewish-Crusader war” and all Muslims have a duty to “liberate” the holy city, a senior Al Qaida leader said in a video released on Jan. 22. “No Muslim has the right […]
