by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 Washington, DC insiders are saying Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has avoided meeting the press through most of the 2016 campaign, will attempt to “run out the clock”as scandals surrounding her candidacy continue to mount. The question is whether Clinton can pull off that well-known sports tactic until […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 China is considering the construction of a permanent manned radar station on the moon. The base would feature a radar antenna 50 meters high and special astronauts’ quarters as well, the Chinese government said. Beijing scientists said the radar would be capable of generating 1.4 gigabytes of data per […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 The U.S. continues to base some 5,000 military personnel in the UAE despite that country’s drifting away from the U.S. in the wake of last summer’s nuclear deal with Iran, a Congressional Research Service report said. UAE’s regional policy “is becoming increasingly assertive, in some cases not necessarily acting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it has summoned, detained, and warned some 450 administrators of social-media groups in recent weeks. The announcement on August 23 was carried on a website affiliated with the IRGC’s cyber arm, Gherdab, and said the unspecified number of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2016 Documents relating to the 1993 death of White House aide and Hillary Clinton friend Vince Foster are missing from the National Archives, according to a report. “FBI agents’ reports of interviews documenting that Hillary Clinton’s stinging humiliation of her friend and mentor Vince Foster in front of White House […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in Havana his visit would open a new chapter in the Islamic Republic’s relations with Communist-ruled Cuba. “We will start a new chapter in the bilateral relations with Cuba on the basis of a big (business) delegation accompanying […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders In all the torturous puzzles of the current Mideast chaos, perhaps the greatest unknown is what the Obama Administration thinks it is accomplishing with its Iran policy. Again, in the past few days, we have had evidence that President Barack Obama is moving – this time secretly – […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2016 The U.S. State Department on Aug. 22 said that “it’s not clear” that Russian warplanes have stopped using an Iranian air base to carry out bombing runs in Syria. Iran on Aug. 22 had insisted that Russia’s use of the base was finished “for now.” Teheran also accused Moscow […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2016 Breitbart.com released the following excerpt from Ann Coulter’s new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome (in stores Aug. 23): “Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2016 President Barack Obama’s directive allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with has been blocked by a federal judge in Texas. Judge Reed O’Connor on Aug. 21 ordered a preliminary injunction ruling the Obama administration did not follow federal law when […]