Killing Xi with kindness; Trump gifts bald eagle sculpture; Big Tech stars (not CNN) at state dinner

Killing Xi with kindness; Trump gifts bald eagle sculpture; Big Tech stars (not CNN) at state dinner

by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2026 Non-AI Real World News 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. — Proverbs 25:21-22 If Donald J. Trump had […]

It’s a big secret: Both parties thwarting scrutiny of gain-of-function research, says Rand Paul

It’s a big secret: Both parties thwarting scrutiny of gain-of-function research, says Rand Paul

by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Congressional investigators looking into the federal funding of dangerous gain-of-function research are being stonewalled by both parties, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said. Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has urged lawmakers to utilize spending bills to compel agencies to […]

Welcome to Washington, President Xi, and how are you feeling?

Welcome to Washington, President Xi, and how are you feeling?

by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The state of his health is the last thing the supreme leader of communist China wants the world to evaluate as he arrive in Washington, DC for his high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump. He heads the Chinese Communist Party that is laser focused at […]

Trump to UN: ‘No human right to illegal immigration’; Reminds Iran ‘I’m not running’ in midterms

Trump to UN: ‘No human right to illegal immigration’; Reminds Iran ‘I’m not running’ in midterms

by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump in a relatively brief address at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 22, highlighted his policies on national sovereignty and actual peace-making. “There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we […]

Ukraine strikes on Russian refineries trigger new political issue: U.S. diesel fuel crisis

Ukraine strikes on Russian refineries trigger new political issue: U.S. diesel fuel crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, September 21, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Average diesel prices in the U.S. have topped $6.50 per gallon for the first time in recorded history. That is a big deal for independent truckers because, in the words of the American Ledger e-letter: “That is who moves our stuff.” The continuing disruptions in […]

NASA chief on new space race challenge: China is doing ‘what Soviets never could’

NASA chief on new space race challenge: China is doing ‘what Soviets never could’

Special to WorldTribune, September 20, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, September 15, 2026 By Richard Fisher Oxon Hill, MD — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman said China presents a much more serious threat to the United States than did the Soviet Union in the first space race during the Cold War. […]

President Trump announces Greenland deal giving U.S. ‘permanent’ strategic control

President Trump announces Greenland deal giving U.S. ‘permanent’ strategic control

by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 18 that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that would give the U.S. “permanent control over security and all other needs” in the territory. The move counters the unreported Arctic ambitions of Russia and […]

New records: Crooks displayed increasingly erratic behavior before assassination attempt

New records: Crooks displayed increasingly erratic behavior before assassination attempt

by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, purchased “a chest rig and ceramic plates,” exhibited increasingly unusual behavior, including talking to himself, pacing at night, staying awake for extended periods […]

New disturbing questions surfaced after 25th anniversary of 9/11

New disturbing questions surfaced after 25th anniversary of 9/11

by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News With the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks which killed 2,976 people came new questions into Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the attacks. Newly unclassified FBI/CIA records reveal that two Saudi government employees “may have served as an advance team” for the 9/11 hijackers, […]

Iran proxies in Yemen and Iraq hit Saudis, spiking oil prices; No worries, says Trump

Iran proxies in Yemen and Iraq hit Saudis, spiking oil prices; No worries, says Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Global oil prices surged past $108 per barrel after attacks by Iran-backed terror proxies on energy infrastructure, in particular a key Saudi pipeline. In an update on Monday, the Saudis said the pipeline will be mostly offline for weeks following the drone strikes. For Americans, […]