Tianwen-2 mission launches China’s ambitious dual-use asteroid program

Tianwen-2 mission launches China’s ambitious dual-use asteroid program

FPI / May 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s first asteroid sample return mission on May 29, 2024, is set to begin a much larger program of asteroid exploration-exploitation to assist military-space ambitions. The program would also assist longer range Chinese ambitions to create outposts into the Solar System. On May 29, from the […]

Breaking the silence: Two North Koreans reveal ‘life’ without rights in isolated communist dynasty

Breaking the silence: Two North Koreans reveal ‘life’ without rights in isolated communist dynasty

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 30, 2025 Speaking out to break the information barrier inside the hermetically sealed North Korean dictatorship is in itself nothing new, and usually quickly forgotten. North Korean exiles, friendly governments and humanitarian organizations will periodically raise the oft forsaken banner of human rights only then to be […]

Justice Department sues NC elections board for illegally registering voters

Justice Department sues NC elections board for illegally registering voters

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2025 Real World News The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) for allowing voters to register without proper identification. The lawsuit states that the NCSBE is in violation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), a federal law that established minimum […]

Report: ‘No evidence’ Biden ever spoke about climate executive orders signed by autopen

Report: ‘No evidence’ Biden ever spoke about climate executive orders signed by autopen

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2025 Real World News Joe Biden had no knowledge of at least eight climate-related executive orders that he allegedly signed, according to a new report by an energy watchdog group. In its report, Power the Future, a nonprofit organization founded by energy expert Daniel Turner, revealed “troubling” implications about the […]

Out at DOGE, Elon Musk gets GOP attention with a different announcement

Out at DOGE, Elon Musk gets GOP attention with a different announcement

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2025 Real World News After drawing little interest (and maybe sighs of relief?) from Republicans in Congress for his work in cutting wasteful spending as the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk said, “I think I’ve done enough.” But Musk, who officially departs from government […]

From 4-bedroom house to homeless shelter: Inside one laptop farm for North Korean tech workers

From 4-bedroom house to homeless shelter: Inside one laptop farm for North Korean tech workers

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2025 Real World News At least several dozen cases are known in which everyday Americans are setting up multiple laptops in their homes which are then used by North Koreans with fake identities to obtain remote work with hundreds of U.S. companies, a report said. Christina Chapman, a former waitress […]

Colorado Springs mayor implicated in hate crime hoax that helped get him elected

Colorado Springs mayor implicated in hate crime hoax that helped get him elected

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2025 Real World News A radio host convicted of staging a cross burning to help sway the Colorado Springs mayoral election in favor of Yemi Mobolade has testified that the mayor was in on the hoax, reports say. Mobolade, a left-leaning independent in the traditional Republican city, won the 2023 […]

Trump tariffs reinstated; previous court ruling was seen unlikely to impact president’s levies

Trump tariffs reinstated; previous court ruling was seen unlikely to impact president’s levies

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News May 29, 2025 A federal appeals court on Thursday granted the Trump Administration’s petition to temporarily pause the U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The judgment issued Wednesday night by the U.S. Court of International Trade is “temporarily stayed […]