by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2017 DirecTV, in an unprecedented move, will give refunds to some subscribers to its NFL Sunday Ticket who seek to cancel their viewing packages over NFL players’ national anthem protests. The Wall Street Journal reported that it spoke with DirecTV customer service representatives and customers who received refunds and Bloomberg […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 24 issued a full travel ban on nationals from North Korea. Pyongyang “does not cooperate with the United States government in any respect,” the order said. “Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Southern California should have its nuclear attack response plans in place, the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center said in a bulletin issued last month. The bulletin, dated Aug. 16, was issued after North Korea’s July test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some analysts said could reach the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 The power of three firms – Google, Facebook and Amazon – has grown larger than “any other monopolies we’ve dealt with in the past century,” raising major concerns on all sides of the political spectrum. Google rules about 90 percent of the Internet search market in the United States […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Roger Stone’s opening statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Sept. 26: Good morning Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking Member, Committee members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and staff. My name is Roger J. Stone, Jr., and with me today are my counsel, Grant […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 When the FBI stormed into the Virginia home of Paul Manafort in a pre-dawn raid, The New York times reacted by applauding it, Rush Limbaugh said. “The New York Times is cheering this,” Limbaugh noted in his Sept. 19 radio broadcast. “Listen to the headline: ‘With a Picked Lock […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 As Russia looks to take on a larger role in the North Korean nuclear standoff, the North’s official in charge of U.S. affairs traveled to Moscow on Sept. 25. Choe Son-Hui, director-general of the North American department at the North Korean Foreign Ministry planned to hold talks with Oleg […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 The Watergate perpetrators sought to conceal their actions from the law, but the U.S. government’s blatant intrusion into the 2016 presidential campaign, before and after the election, was conducted by its own law enforcement and intelligence agencies. “Richard Nixon’s henchmen wore surgical gloves to avoid leaving clues for law […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have won a fourth term in the Sept. 24 elections, but the anti-immigrant party AfD stole the spotlight. Not only did the AfD enter the German parliament for the first time, it won enough seats to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag after […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 In the people’s war with the D.C. “Swamp,” the “Swamp” is still winning – but Congress “is making progress,” said Rep. Dave Brat. “There are good reasons voters in both parties felt they needed to turn to ‘outsider’ candidates last November: the insiders in the swamp weren’t listening,” Brat […]
