Watchdog group: Newly released Clinton emails detail ‘commingling’ of State Dept., Clinton Foundation business

Watchdog group: Newly released Clinton emails detail ‘commingling’ of State Dept., Clinton Foundation business

by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2018 Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton’s unsecure non-state.gov email system contain classified information and “detail collusion between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation,” a government watchdog group said. Ten of the emails obtained by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit contain classified information […]

Swiss bliss: Dilbert cartoonist offers win-win solution for North Korea crisis

Swiss bliss: Dilbert cartoonist offers win-win solution for North Korea crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2018 North Korea, if it chooses “to pivot” can become the “Switzerland of the East,” Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams wrote on his blog. U.S. President Donald Trump “understands the mental game like no president before him,” Adams wrote. “And Kim Jong-Un appears to have a similar toolset. Never have we […]

Wolfowitz skeptical North Korea will remove strategic gains already achieved

Wolfowitz skeptical North Korea will remove strategic gains already achieved

by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2018 Though he “hopes we are entering a new era with North Korea,” Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. deputy defense secretary, said he remains skeptical the Kim Jong-Un regime will follow through with its pledge of denuclearization. Wolfowitz, who served as deputy defense secretary from 2001-2005, also said it will be […]

Report: McConnell’s sister-in-law named to Bank of China board 10 days after Trump election

Report: McConnell’s sister-in-law named to Bank of China board 10 days after Trump election

by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2018 “In a panic” following the election victory of Donald Trump, China appointed the sister-in-law of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to the Bank of China’s board of directors, the author of a new book on the monetizing of political influence said. Angela Chao was named to the Bank […]

Feeding the Swamp: Spike reported in spending on lobbyists by social media giants

Feeding the Swamp: Spike reported in spending on lobbyists by social media giants

by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2018 Facebook spent a record $3.3 million on lobbying the U.S. government in the first quarter of 2018, a report said. “While that’s a lot for Facebook, it’s not far from what its peers spend,” Recode noted in an April 22 report. “Amazon spent slightly more, $3.38 million, last quarter as […]

Report: Kim Jong-Un had several meetings with Pompeo, saw ‘eye-to-eye with him’

Report: Kim Jong-Un had several meetings with Pompeo, saw ‘eye-to-eye with him’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un complimented CIA Director Mike Pompeo for his “guts” during their recent meeting, a report said. Pompeo, whose nomination for secretary of state was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, had a secret meeting with Kim in Pyongyang over Easter weekend. […]

NY Post columnist details signs of Democrat desperation

NY Post columnist details signs of Democrat desperation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2018 The civil lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks and Russia was more an act of desperation than anything else, a New York Post columnist wrote. “It’s not just Hillary Clinton who can’t quit Russia. The whole Democratic Party keeps going back to […]

DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign makes no mention of Russian ‘dossier’

DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign makes no mention of Russian ‘dossier’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 22, 2018 The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC’s) civil RICO lawsuit against the Trump campaign for alleged Russia collusion is 66 pages long. None of the pages references the dossier by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, according to a report by Rowan Scarborough for The Washington Times. The dossier played a key role […]

Iranians hit by ‘perfect currency storm’

Iranians hit by ‘perfect currency storm’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Frud Bezhan and Niusha Boghrati, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian travelers stand in front of a currency exchange in Tehran, hoping to exchange money on April 11. Every day, hundreds head to Tehran’s bustling Ferdowsi street to buy foreign currency, only to find that many exchange offices have shut […]

Trump hits ‘artificially high’ oil prices: ‘OPEC is at it again’

Trump hits ‘artificially high’ oil prices: ‘OPEC is at it again’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2018 As oil prices on April 19 hit their highest levels in years, U.S. President Donald Trump said the “artificially very high” prices “will not be accepted.” The U.S. shale boom largely led to crude prices dropping below $30 per barrel in early 2016. This week, Brent crude neared $75 […]