Trump moving very fast on judicial vacancies, but Senate is moving very slow

Trump moving very fast on judicial vacancies, but Senate is moving very slow

by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2017 Since taking office, President Donald Trump has submitted 50 candidates to fill judicial vacancies. The Senate, thus far, has confirmed just seven, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. According to the Judicial Conference of the United States, 149 vacancies currently exist in the federal courts. “The president’s nominating pace is astoundingly […]

Do something: Billionaire dissident reveals Chinese spy invasion at National Press Club

Do something: Billionaire dissident reveals Chinese spy invasion at National Press Club

by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2017 Chinese dissident Guo Wengui told a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington that Beijing is engaged in a major subversion campaign in the United States. He called on the U.S. to “take action”. Guo released a “top secret” document from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that […]

IRGC threatens missile strike on U.S. forces in Mideast as Iran nuclear deal decision nears

IRGC threatens missile strike on U.S. forces in Mideast as Iran nuclear deal decision nears

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has suggested that U.S. military forces in the Middle East could be in danger of an Iranian missile attack if Washington imposes new sanctions against Teheran. Jafari’s comments on October 8 follow several media reports saying that […]

Trump blames Corker for Iran nuclear deal as week of proliferation showdowns loom

Trump blames Corker for Iran nuclear deal as week of proliferation showdowns loom

by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2017 In this corner: Republican Sen. Bob Corker and the New York Times. Opposing those once powerful forces is President Donald Trump and his twitter account. As the world watches how the U.S. president will handle nuclear proliferation crises in Iran and North Korea that he correctly says he inherited […]

South Korea’s pro-North Left can’t believe the leader they backed appears to collude with Trump

South Korea’s pro-North Left can’t believe the leader they backed appears to collude with Trump

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL —South Korea’s outspoken radicals and leftists can hardly hide their dismay. To the consternation of organizers of the candlelight crusade that brought down the government of the conservative Park Geun-Hye, ousted and jailed on a wide range of offenses, their one-time hero, Moon Jae-In, elected president as Park’s […]

‘One more’ chance: U.S. generals say Pakistan-Afghan region has world’s highest jihadist concentration

‘One more’ chance: U.S. generals say Pakistan-Afghan region has world’s highest jihadist concentration

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump will try to work with Pakistan on counter-terrorism “one more time” before taking measures forcing the nation to do more, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told lawmakers on Oct. 3. “We need to try one more time to make this strategy work with them, by, with, […]

Obama official: Backing out of Iran deal would jeopardize U.S. diplomacy with North Korea

Obama official: Backing out of Iran deal would jeopardize U.S. diplomacy with North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal “doesn’t make us tougher with North Korea … it isolates us from the rest of the world,” said an Obama administration official who helped broker the deal. “North Korea will see this as we are unreliable and we don’t have credibility,” Wendy […]

Lawyers for Awans cite evidence of widespread procurement fraud by House Democrats

Lawyers for Awans cite evidence of widespread procurement fraud by House Democrats

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Imran Awan, his brothers and their associates were merely doing what they were “ordered to do” by Democratic members of Congress when the IT aides allegedly falsified records on how the members’ office budgets were spent, according to lawyers for Awan. Awan was arrested in July while trying to […]

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 A ferocious government prosecutor and Obama donor has onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in his sights. Andrew Weissmann, who has been reunited with special counsel Robert Mueller, his old boss at the FBI, “has an operational history of going after the relatively small to snare the big,” Rowan […]

Major think tank abruptly cancels talk by billionaire dissident targeted by Beijing

Major think tank abruptly cancels talk by billionaire dissident targeted by Beijing

by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 A conservative think tank in Washington called off a public meeting with Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after the think tank’s website was targeted in a denial of service cyber attack traced to Shanghai, a report said. The Hudson Institute on Oct. 2 sent an email notice stating the widely-anticipated […]