by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 A UK woman with a young child was sentenced to five years in prison by Iran’s Revolutionary Court in what her husband said was “a punishment without a crime.” Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 37-year-old from north London and mother of a 2-year-old daughter, was detained while on holiday in Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 Since some retailers decided to allow customers to use the restrooms and changing rooms of their gender identity, several incidents of men “peeping” into and taking photos of women using the facilities have been reported. Most recently, Dallas police said they were looking for a man who used his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A report that revealed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in the 1980s is being called a “smear campaign” by Fatah leaders. A Sept. 7 report by Israel’s Channel 1 television, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR, said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 In defending the 2011 U.S. invasion of Libya during a foreign policy forum broadcast by NBC, Hillary Clinton insisted “we did not lose a single American in that action.” While no Americans died in the actual 26,000 U.S. bombing sorties during the Libya campaign, four Americans died in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A transgender student’s “twerking and grinding” in a high school girls locker room is being cited in a lawsuit filed in federal court by a group of Virginia parents seeking to stop that state’s public schools from opening locker rooms and showers to members of the opposite sex. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 The creators of the first international beauty contest judged by artificial intelligence were likely using the scratching your head emoticon after the robots chose mostly white contestants as the winners. The robot judges of the Beauty.AI contest were “supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry and wrinkles […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Did the IRS, the same federal agency that five years ago targeted conservative groups, allow the Clinton Foundation a pass on compliance requirements? Clinton Foundation officials “skirted or ignored federal laws and regulations” while converting the non-profit from its tax-exempt purpose of building a presidential library in Little Rock, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Americans are lazy. Too lazy to get to know the people of other cultures. Too lazy, even, to do their own recycling. U.S. President Barack Obama called Americans “lazy” multiple times during his visit to Laos this week. “The United States is and can be a great force for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 The NBA has moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo has banned non-essential state travel to North Carolina. The Tar Heel state’s response – big whoop! Despite multiple calls to boycott North Carolina over its House Bill 2 (HB2), the so-called transgender […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 A Tajik national and U.S.-trained sniper has been promoted to minister of war by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Gulmurod Khalimov replaces the red-bearded Tarhan Batirashvili, better known as “Omar the Chechen,” who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in July. The 41-year-old Khalimov underwent U.S. special […]
