by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 Sens. Marco Rubio and John Cornyn have written a letter calling on the Trump administration to ban the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s products in the U.S. energy infrastructure. Congress has already blocked the use of Huawei products in U.S. telecommunications equipment “due the company’s links to China’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk HANOI ― The slogan, “Hanoi, City for Peace,” would have seemed unimaginable when I was a correspondent in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War nearly half a century ago. This capital of what we then called “North” Vietnam was the heart of a desperate surge southward that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 1, 2019 The U.S. electric grid is an easy target for nuclear and solar attacks, panelists at a recent Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Operations Committee roundtable discussion said. “We are still incredibly vulnerable,” committee chair Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said during the Feb. 27 discussion on protecting the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un collapsed after Kim had demanded sanctions relief in return for shutting down some, but not all, of the North’s nuclear sites. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 Longtime Clinton agent Lanny Davis “choreographed” the Feb. 27 House Oversight Committee hearing featuring Michael Cohen, who is the “patsy” of a cabal which seeks to remove President Donald Trump from office, Rep. Jim Jordan said during the hearing. Jordan, Ohio Republican and ranking member of the committee, noted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 Pakistan has an opportunity to build relations with a willing Israel to counter India, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. He warned about the danger of war between the two nuclear-armed powers. “There is a need to break the alliance between India and Israel, and Pakistan could do it […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 The Democrat-led House on Feb. 27 passed legislation requiring universal background checks and outlawing private gun sales. H.R. 8, or the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, passed by a vote of 240-190. Eight Republicans joined 232 Democrats in voting in favor of the bill. Just two Democrats voted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 A U.S. Attorney blasted “sanctuary city” policies in the case of an illegal immigrant who raped a 5-year-old girl after Philadelphia ignored an ICE detainer and released him. After being deported to his native Honduras in 2009, Juan Ramon-Vasquez was found back in the United States in 2014 by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 The United States is ready to help North Korea reach its economic potential, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 27 as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 While President Donald Trump was focused on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. corporate media put the spotlight on Washington, where a man who had lied to Congress was again testifying to Congress. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s […]
