Trump speaks with leaders of Korea and Japan, calls for urgent meetings

Trump speaks with leaders of Korea and Japan, calls for urgent meetings

by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump called the leaders of South Korea and Japan on March 7 to discuss North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch and suggest urgent high-level discussions in response to Pyongyang’s provocations. The South Korean prime minister’s office said acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn and Trump spoke for about […]

‘Big deal’: Mark Levin goes ballistic over media’s ‘lack of curiosity’ on Obama’s surveillance of Trump

‘Big deal’: Mark Levin goes ballistic over media’s ‘lack of curiosity’ on Obama’s surveillance of Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2017 Radio host Mark Levin tore into the major media for its “lack of curiosity and dishonesty” over the Obama administration’s possible wiretapping of the Trump campaign. Levin took the media to task after he was heavily criticized for highlighting the alleged surveillance of Trump, which he countered was based […]

China punishes S. Korean companies, soaps, tourism as THAAD deployments begin

China punishes S. Korean companies, soaps, tourism as THAAD deployments begin

by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2017 China has launched into major economic retaliation against South Korea for its deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. Beijing, in response to Seoul deploying the THAAD system, has shut down South Korean retail stores in China, has told travel agencies not to sell tourists tickets to the South […]

Supreme Court sends transgender bathroom case back to lower court

Supreme Court sends transgender bathroom case back to lower court

by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2017 The U.S. Supreme Court sent a transgender-rights case back to a lower court on March 6 after the Trump administration rescinded Obama administration guidelines allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity in public schools. The decision to send the case back to the 4th Circuit […]

Assad’s forces take over positions from U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria

Assad’s forces take over positions from U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2017 In a deal said brokered by Russia, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces have taken over frontline positions from a U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria. The Syrian army took over the positions in the city of Manbij, where the U.S.-backed Manbij Military Council had been fighting anti-Assad rebel forces backed […]

Japan on high alert as N. Korean missiles land in its waters; Moscow ‘seriously worried’

Japan on high alert as N. Korean missiles land in its waters;  Moscow ‘seriously worried’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2017 Japan moved to its highest possible military alert level on March 6 after three North Korean missiles landed in the Sea of Japan. In the latest provocation from the Kim Jong-Un regime, three of four missiles fired by Pyongyang landed in Tokyo’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), with one falling […]

Reports: The Obama administration wiretapped Trump, world leaders, journalists, everyone?

Reports: The Obama administration wiretapped Trump, world leaders, journalists, everyone?

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2017 Barack Obama played 333 rounds of golf during his presidency. But wiretapping may have been the activity closest to his heart, reports said. “The Obama administration absolutely loved wiretapping, intercepting confidential transmissions, bugging – well, anyone it could,” The Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl reported on March 6. Team Obama […]

‘Evidence is overwhelming’: Mark Levin says Obama responsible for ‘police state tactics’ against Trump

‘Evidence is overwhelming’: Mark Levin says Obama responsible for ‘police state tactics’ against Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2017 “The evidence is overwhelming” that the Obama administration abused its authority in wiretapping the Trump campaign, Conservative Review editor Mark Levin said. The question is, to what extent did Obama’s team go to in its spying efforts? Levin asked. “The issue isn’t whether the Obama administration spied on the […]

The Hill asks ‘Has Hillary come to terms’ with losing? … No

The Hill asks ‘Has Hillary come to terms’ with losing? … No

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2017 In the days and weeks following her epic defeat in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton went on long walks, took in a Broadway show and went grocery shopping for the first time in months. The twice-defeated candidate was “coming to terms with her new life,” The Hill reported […]

Netanyahu to urge Putin to block permanent foothold for Iran in Syria

Netanyahu to urge Putin to block permanent foothold for Iran in Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will press Russian President Valdimir Putin not to allow Iran to establish a permanent military presence in Syria. Netanyahu, who is traveling to Moscow on March 9 for a meeting with Putin, told his cabinet on March 5 he will seek “specific […]