Stranger than fiction: Key FBI players discussed ‘insurance policy’ against Trump election

Stranger than fiction: Key FBI players discussed ‘insurance policy’ against Trump election

by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2017 A pair of FBI agents working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged text messages in which they appear to discuss how to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president. In an Aug. 15, 2016 text message, FBI agent Peter Strzok writes to FBI lawyer Lisa Page: “I want […]

Turns out the U.S. may not be able to afford Korean War II

Turns out the U.S. may not be able to afford Korean War II

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― A lot of people here, from right to left politically, think war on the Korean peninsula is imminent. Kim Jong-Un, they say, is eager to order a seventh nuclear test as well as test shots of intercontinental ballistic missiles. And would not President Trump love to stage […]

Russia welcomes Tillerson’s offer of talks ‘without pre-conditions’ with North Korea

Russia welcomes Tillerson’s offer of talks ‘without pre-conditions’ with North Korea

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Moscow has welcomed a new U.S. offer of talks with North Korea, with senior Russian officials calling it constructive and the “only correct approach” to tension over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. The Russian remarks on December 13 came after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered […]

Upcoming Winter games in PyeongChang taking place in world’s foremost hot zone

Upcoming Winter games in PyeongChang taking place in world’s foremost hot zone

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The Olympic Games should be entirely about sport, sportsmanship and solidarity. Yet they rarely are. Every four years the athletes of the world, or at least most of them, meet in an exotic locale plagued by political controversy, cost overruns, corruption, and doping concerns. The […]

Trump wants U.S. to return to the moon, then shoot for Mars

Trump wants U.S. to return to the moon, then shoot for Mars

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 Americans will return to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 and in the long-term will use the moon as a way-station for a journey to Mars, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Dec. 11. Surrounded by members of the recently re-established National Space Council (NSC), active […]

Heartbreak at the Huffington Post: ‘Sadly, Trump is winning’

Heartbreak at the Huffington Post: ‘Sadly, Trump is winning’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 Much to the chagrin of his many detractors in the mainstream media, President Donald Trump has pulled off a string of major victories in his first year at the White House, an analyst wrote for Huffington Post. “This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write […]

Reports: White House could order FBI chief to give Congress access to FISA warrant

Reports: White House could order FBI chief to give Congress access to FISA warrant

by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2017 President Donald Trump has the lawful authority to force FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide Congress access to a confidential FISA warrant that gave permission for the surveillance of Trump campaign team members, reports say. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Wray said he could not […]

Attorney for IT worker who took a hammer to Clinton cell phones is Mueller deputy

Attorney for IT worker who took a hammer to Clinton cell phones is Mueller deputy

by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2017 A top attorney on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia also represented the IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server, a report said. Aaron Zebley was an attorney for Justin Cooper, the IT aide who set up the private email […]

Iran calls on Islamic states to sever ties with U.S.; Abbas cancels Pence meeting

Iran calls on Islamic states to sever ties with U.S.; Abbas cancels Pence meeting

by WorldTribune Staff, December 10, 2017 President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and plans to move the U.S. embassy to the city gives Muslim states an opportunity to unite and sever ties with the U.S., the deputy speaker of Iranian parliament said. “The least move the Muslim states can make is […]

Jerusalem: Trump action followed years of rhetoric by Obama, Clinton and Bush

Jerusalem: Trump action followed years of rhetoric by Obama, Clinton and Bush

by WorldTribune Staff, December 10, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 8 noted how his three predecessors in the White House all made promises on Jerusalem, but Trump was the only one to follow through. “I fulfilled my campaign promise – others didn’t!” Trump said in a tweet in which he posted a video […]