by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 U.S. officials investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion obtained a FISA warrant to wiretap former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, before and after the election, based on the bogus dossier of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, reports say. Fox News’s Ed Henry reported that the warrant was obtained “after the FBI embraced […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 North Carolina is hoping that a new budget initiative with enhanced incentives for businesses will entice Amazon to choose the Tar Heel state as the location for its second headquarters. Earlier this month, Seattle-based Amazon said it would spend $5 billion in construction and hire up to 50,000 high-paying […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 Egypt’s Court of Cassation, in a final ruling issued on Sept. 16, sentenced Mohammed Morsi to 25 years in prison in a case accusing the former president of spying for Qatar. The court reduced Morsi’s sentence from an original 40 years in the case, which centered on the leaking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2017 The United States has a window of opportunity to cast aside its “denial behavior” on North Korea, an analyst said. “Is the naivete and willful blindness that helped begin World War II on September 1, 1939, being repeated in the response of the U.S. and its allies to North […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 A “power vacuum” in both the Democratic and Republican parties has allowed President Donald Trump to work “with whomever he pleases on whatever issues he wants,” and signals the end of the parties as we know them, an analyst wrote. “The partisan political structure in place for so long […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 Imran Awan, the former IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, used a secret server and a file hosting service that congressional staffers are prohibited from using to store massive amounts of Democrats’ data, according to reports. Awan, who is under indictment for bank fraud, conspiracy and making false […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 Tunisian Parliament has voted to allow women in the nation to marry non-Muslim men, overturning a law enacted in 1973. Previously, any non-Muslim man who wished to marry a Tunisian woman was forced to convert to Islam and display a certificate of his conversion to the authorities. He would […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 In the last year, 10 current and former U.S. mayors have been accused of sex crimes ranging from possession of child pornography to physical abuse of victims as young as 4-years-old, according to reports. Earlier this month, Rick Nelson, the mayor of Stillwater, New York, resigned after being arrested […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2017 The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has sent the Trump administration a list of a dozen large Chinese banks with alleged ties to North Korea that are “ripe for sanctions.” “We have not had the resolve to put these sanctions on those major institutions. It’s time to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) has regrouped in Libya and is now “dangerously active” in the country, a report said. ISIS is now exploiting a standoff between the UN-backed government in Tripoli and a rival administration based in Tobruk in the country’s east to stage a comeback, Bloomberg reported on Sept. […]
