by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2018 A new report details the extent to which Facebook goes to collect users’ data. Ars Technica reported that Facebook’s Android app collects data on users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform without the users’ permission. And, the report said, Facebook has been doing it for years. According […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2018 Seven missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels were intercepted by Saudi forces on March 25. Houthi jihadists in Yemen fired three missiles at Riyadh and four others at the southern cities of Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran. The Saudi-led coalition said it used Patriot missile batteries to target the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2018 Switzerland has a high rate of gun ownership, a murder rate near zero, and no mass shootings. The country of 8.3 million people has about 2 million privately owned guns. In 2016, there were 47 homicides with firearms, according to a report by Business Insider. There has not been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2018 Citigroup is now requiring its business partners to ban the sale of firearms to any customers under the age of 21 and to those who have not passed a background check. In becoming the first major U.S. bank to impose the restrictions, Citigroup said the new policy applies to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2018 A legal organization has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the San Diego Unified School District over an “anti-Islamophobia” curricula being taught by a group which critics say supports the Muslim Brotherhood terror organization. The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) filed the suit on behalf of parents […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 The Trump administration’s foreign policy successes have been accomplished “because” of President Donald Trump, “not in spite of him,” as many of his mainstream media critics claim, an analyst wrote. And, now, with John Bolton as his new national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo nominated as secretary of state, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 A businessman and close confidante of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to purchase Turkey’s largest media group, which includes CNN-Turk, a report said. The Demiroren Group of magnate Erdogan Demiroren will buy Dogan Media Group for around $1 billion (810 million euros), AFP reported. Along with CNN-Turk, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 The city council in Elizabeth City, North Carolina has voted to reject placing a 25-ton monument in a local park to honor Soviet World War II aviators who had trained in the area as part of a secret project. The Russian Defense Ministry had pledged to pay for the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 According to the March for Our Lives website “School safety is not a political issue.” But many of the thousands who took part in the march in Washington, D.C., on March 24 “carried signs revealing their anti-gun, anti-Trump, and pro-left wing agenda,” Penny Starr reported for Breitbart News. Signs […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper provided misleading testimony to Congress regarding information he allegedly leaked to CNN on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the House Intelligence Committee said. The committee’s final report, which it approved on March 22, found no evidence of Russian collusion […]
