by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2018 Eight states currently allow teachers to carry guns at school and six others are considering legislation to do so. Texas, Kansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wyoming allow teachers to carry at school while Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Maryland, and Oklahoma are considering allowing school personnel carry weapons, the Wall […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Artillery fire and indiscriminate air strikes pound and batter the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Civilians, mostly children, are being killed and maimed. The Security Council wrings its hands in pleading for a humanitarian respite in a ongoing horror. And the world community politely averts its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2018 The United States on Feb. 26 slammed Russia’s veto of a UN draft resolution that would have condemned Iran for violating an embargo on arms shipments to Houthi rebels in Yemen. “That just validated a lot of what we already thought which is Iran gets a pass for its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 Social media users, already banned on U.S. platforms, compared the Chinese Communist Party’s move to pave the way for President Xi Jinping’s long term reign to the ruling dynasty in North Korea. “Argh, we’re going to become North Korea,” wrote one Weibo user. “We’re following the example of our […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 The FBI under Director James Comey and Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch sought to block the Department of Justice’s investigation into several cases of sexual misconduct against FBI agents, a report said. DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz recently detailed at least 14 instances of improper sexual conduct […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Critics have complained for years of the appearance of cooperation between Iran’s state-controlled television and its hard-line security structures, citing smears against activists and the broadcast of prisoner confessions thought to have been extracted under duress. But lawyers for the family of a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are being egged on and “used as props” by “social justice teachers” pushing for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, WorldTribune.com columnist Michelle Malkin said. “We could not have this discussion of actual, practical school security plans […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called off his tentatively planned visit to the White House after a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump in which Trump refused to yield on his stance that Mexico pay for a proposed border wall. During a 50-minute conversation on Feb. 20, Pena […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2018 The newly released rebuttal memo by Democrats shows the only collusion with Russians in the 2016 presidential campaign was on the part of Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said. The Democrats’ rebuttal memo was released on Feb. 24. Earlier this month, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2018 The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has proposed ending term limits for the offices of president and vice president. In a move that would cement President Xi Jinping’s rule beyond a second five-year term, state-run Xinhua News Agency said that the Central Committee on Feb. 25 […]
