Left was all a-twitter over anti-Trump Super Bowl commercial

Left was all a-twitter over anti-Trump Super Bowl commercial

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 While Tom Brady was engineering one of the great comebacks in Super Bowl history, the Twitterverse lit up over a commercial by Airbnb that many saw as a shot at President Donald Trump. The ad by Airbnb, an online network and app that helps people list and rent lodging, […]

Reports: Houthi missile hits military base near Saudi capital

Reports: Houthi missile hits military base near Saudi capital

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 A surface-to-surface missile launched by Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit a Saudi military camp near Riyadh on Feb. 5, according to regional news reports. The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not commented on the incident, but a number of local citizens reported on Twitter that the missile hit a military camp in […]

Trump’s travel ban finds wide support in the Middle East

Trump’s travel ban finds wide support in the Middle East

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Middle East countries, which deal with the threat of terrorism on a 24/7 basis, are widely backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations. Mideast governments who are dealing with the consequences of former President Barack Obama’s “fecklessness … want the United States […]

Mattis slams Iran as ‘single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world’

Mattis slams Iran as ‘single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Iran’s “misconduct and misbehavior” must be addressed, U.S. Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis said on Feb. 4, a day after the U.S. slapped a new set of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Mattis, who described Iran as “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world,” was […]

Mideast passengers scramble to enter U.S. after judge overturns travel ban

Mideast passengers scramble to enter U.S. after judge overturns travel ban

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Thousands of travelers from the Mideast are rushing to enter the United States after a Seattle judge lifted President Donald Trump’s travel ban for citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Trump administration has suspended the ban’s enforcement in compliance with the Feb. 3 order […]

Report: U.S. scientists manipulated data to make global warming seem worse

Report: U.S. scientists manipulated data to make global warming seem worse

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) used “unverified” data for a landmark study that claimed the planet was warming much faster than expected, a whistleblower said. NOAA in 2015 made a “blatant attempt to intensify the impact” of global warming to eliminate the “pause” in temperature rise since […]

Jordan hits ISIS targets inside Syria

Jordan hits ISIS targets inside Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Jordan on Feb. 3 carried out airstrikes on Islamic State (ISIS) targets in southern Syria. The Jordanian army confirmed the attacks targeted an arms depot, a facility in which car bombs were being made, and a barracks used to house ISIS jihadists. The attack in southern Syria occurred just […]

Another ban on visas from Muslim majority nations . . . in Kuwait

Another ban on visas from Muslim majority nations . . . in Kuwait

by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Citizens from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been banned from obtaining visas to enter Kuwait. In a move that mirrored U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations, passport holders from those five countries will not be allowed to enter Kuwait and have been told […]

Report: Communist front groups are staging ‘spontaneous’ anti-Trump protests

Report: Communist front groups are staging ‘spontaneous’ anti-Trump protests

by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Anti-Trump demonstrations painted by the major media as “spontaneous” are, in fact, “100 percent contrived, phony exhibitions of street theater” orchestrated in advance by pro-communist organizations, a report said. One such group is the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). Established in 2001 by Ramsey Clark’s International Action […]

N.C. lawmaker mocks newspaper’s report on Women’s March

N.C. lawmaker mocks newspaper’s report on Women’s March

by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 A North Carolina state representative made fun of the Raleigh News & Observer’s decision to run a story about the lawmaker’s Facebook post criticizing the Women’s March on Washington. Rep. Michael Speciale, of New Bern, said the march was a “cruel joke” and the participants were “used by the […]