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New U.S. Amb. Michelle Steel undeterred by chilly reception in Seoul

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New U.S. Amb. Michelle Steel undeterred by chilly reception in Seoul

Special to WorldTribune, August 10, 2026 Real World News

Geostrategy-Direct, August 4, 2026

New U.S. Amb. to South Korea Michelle Steel was born in Seoul in 1955 to parents who fled the North and has advocated for North Korean human rights, countering Chinese influence, and strengthening the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

U.S. Amb. to South Korea Michelle Steel upon her arrival in Seoul on July 30. / Yonhap

That seemingly appropriate background for her role does not sit well with the leftist regime currently running South Korea.

In response to potential protests at Incheon International Airport, U.S. authorities bolstered security and requested additional protection from South Korean police.

Following the White House announcement, over 400 organizations held a rally outside the U.S. Embassy, issuing a joint statement demanding the withdrawal of Steel's nomination.

The White House and State Department reportedly conveyed concerns to the South Korean government, warning that rejecting a Trump-appointed ambassador could strain bilateral relations. U.S. officials view Steel's principled stance on North Korea and China — emphasizing human rights and deterrence — as misrepresented

GOP civil war rages in August as obstructionist Rinos go on vacation; Mitch dead for 56 days?

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GOP civil war rages in August as obstructionist Rinos go on vacation; Mitch dead for 56 days?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

Never-Trumpers within the Republican party gleefully skipped out of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday for the start of a 37-day vacation, essentially flipping off President Donald Trump and his millions of supporters as they sauntered out, analysts say.

Townhall.com's Matt Vespa summed up the scene:

The Senate won't return from summer recess until Sept. 14. / Wikimedia Commons

"Sen. John Thune and the rest of the panican GOP caucus wanted to go home. They held a really early-morning vote around 5 AM to confirm Todd Blanche as the 88th attorney general of the United States, but then moved to adjourn. There weren't enough senators to kill the August recess. Democrats certainly won't do it, and Thune noted 15 to 20 Republicans who'd rather let Democrats run them over when they retake the chamber at some point, kill the filibuster, and pass their extreme policies as we watch helplessly like infants. Why? Well, that's what these Republicans do: face an open nuclear reactor and think they'll be

Pay-to-play: China influence group targeted dozens of U.S. journalists for positive coverage of CCP

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Pay-to-play: China influence group targeted dozens of U.S. journalists for positive coverage of CCP

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

In a highly structured pay-to-play operation, a Chinese influence group offered American journalists all-expenses-paid trips to China and access to top officials with the goal of the journalists returning to the U.S. with a significantly improved opinion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Better Hong Kong Foundation is the group which said it "sponsored and organized" the trips, Natalie Winters noted in an Aug. 10 substack analysis. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs helped arrange meetings with senior central and local government officials.

Free trips and access to officials enticed dozens of U.S. journalists to indulge in the program. / Xinhua

While the Better Hong Kong Foundation is officially registered as a privately funded, non-profit, and politically non-affiliated organization, analysts note it maintains strong, well-documented ties to the interests and influence networks of the CCP as an active component of Beijing's "United Front" strategy.

Related: Investigation: 26 legacy media journalists took pay-for-play junkets to Communist China,

Federal judge refuses to dismiss charges against Southern Poverty Law Center

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Federal judge refuses to dismiss charges against Southern Poverty Law Center

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News August 9, 2026

The Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) bid to dismiss charges brought against it by the Trump Administration was rejected by a federal judge in Alabama.

U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ruled on Friday that the leftist nonprofit organization did not meet the bar to demonstrate the Justice Department was motivated by animus in bringing the case.

In April of this year, the Justice Department indicted the SPLC on 11 counts, including wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The charges allege the group misled donors by secretly funneling over $3 million to informants in extremist groups between 2014 and 2023.

"Federal courts are not the proper forum for airing political grievances. For that reason, the doctrine of vindictive prosecution places a heavy burden on the accused, and decades of precedent counsels against its application here. Two things can be true at once: critics are not constitutionally immunized solely because they speak frequently and prosecutorial decisions may be second guessed—if they evince some

WNBA suddenly convenes task force as second former NBA player applies for 2027 draft

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WNBA suddenly convenes task force as second former NBA player applies for 2027 draft

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

According to Article XIII, Section 1 of the WNBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement, "only players who are women are eligible to play" in the women's professional basketball league.

Of course, many of those who run the league's front office and the owners, coaches, and players for the teams are unable to define what a woman is.

Enes Kanter Freedom, left, and Royce White

Is that changing after two former NBA players declared themselves eligible for next year's WNBA draft?

The WNBA's powers that be have formed a task force to perhaps tackle the issue.

Following the debate over the league's trans inclusion policies, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White on Friday declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft.

Freedom, a 6'10", 250-pound center who played 748 regular-season games across 11 NBA seasons for the Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers, and Boston Celtics, announced his intention via social media.

"If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every requirement necessary to compete in the

How Marxist are elected DSA officials? Let us count the ways

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How Marxist are elected DSA officials? Let us count the ways

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

Never go full Marxist?

While in the past it may have abided by that advice, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is no longer shy about having straight up Marxists within its leadership ranks.

And those Marxists are quite clear about what their ideal America looks like: The overthrow of capitalism and a society governed by workers. But, as history has shown time and again, that's not how Marxists actually govern. Rule is strictly limited to state and party bureaucrats who hold all decision-making power.

"With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists," historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson noted in an Aug. 8 op-ed.

As Hanson sees it, Marxist policies have become ingrained in the Democrat Party's platforms.

Declaring capitalism a failure?

"All the socialists now do that — and even Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also started agreeing that 'capitalism as we know it doesn't work either.' Oddly, Newsom himself, a multimillionaire and a beneficiary of arch-capitalist Gordon Getty's largesse,

Fauci ouchy: Suddenly, the cameras and ‘science’ don’t see eye to eye

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Fauci ouchy: Suddenly, the cameras and ‘science’ don’t see eye to eye

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

On July 29, "science" took the Fifth … 111 times.

On Thursday, hours after a Senate committee voted to hold him in contempt of Congress, Dr. Anthony Fauci who identifies as "science" looked quite glum taking out the trash outside his D.C. digs.

Anthony Fauci and wife Christine Grady / X

Science's wife was then spotted making an obscene finger gesture to photographers chronicling science's bad day.

Sen. Rand Paul, who chairs the committee that recommended contempt charges against Anthony Fauci, responded to Fauci's wife Christine Grady's gesture:

"Is that how you plead the Fifth in sign language?"

The New York Post noted that, as Grady flipped off the photographer, "Fauci stared blankly out the window."

Earlier Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 along party lines to hold the former Covid overlord in contempt of Congress.

If convicted of a misdemeanor contempt charge, Fauci could face up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

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New Sunni alliance aims at both Iran and Israel

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New Sunni alliance aims at both Iran and Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan the world's top Sunni Muslim powers, have established a NATO-style collective deterrence model which analysts believe is aimed squarely at Iran and Israel.

The "Mecca Joint Defense Pact" was formalized on Friday as Saudi Arabia braced for expected coordinated drone and missile strikes from Iran-backed Iraqi militias and Yemen's Houthi terrorists.

From left, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign on to the Mecca Joint Defense Pact. / Video Image

"While seen initially as a bulwark against aggression by Shia Iran and its Middle East proxies," the agreement "has major implications for Israel and for NATO, of which Turkey is a key member," David Jones noted in a Sunday analysis for The New York Sun.

The new pact "may not be seen as unwelcome by President Trump, who has been pushing America's allies in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere to take more responsibility for their own defense," Jones noted.

"However the pact also reduces pressure

Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt; 3 state AGs subpoena former Covid czar

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Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt; 3 state AGs subpoena former Covid czar

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News August 6, 2026

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on Thursday to recommend former Covid czar Anthony Fauci be held in contempt of Congress.

Anthony Fauci plead the Fifth 111 times at last week's hearing. / Video Image

The vote follows Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times during a committee hearing last week on the pandemic response and the origins of the Covid virus.

The vote by the committee, which is chaired by Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, initiates a process that would result in the Justice Department considering whether to charge him with a crime.

Whether the Justice Department does take up the matter is complicated by Joe Biden'a auto-pen pardon of Fauci for any crimes he might have committed dating back to 2014.

Whether Fauci was covered by the pardon during the hearing and the mix of the pardon while pleading the Fifth Amendment is at the center of the legal debate.

"The decision to fund dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, will likely

Left is losing it over professional female athletes who don’t want men in women’s sports

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Left is losing it over professional female athletes who don’t want men in women’s sports

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

Sophie Cunningham and Aryna Sabalenka play in different professional sports but have one mindset when it comes to men competing in women's sports … they're against it.

Riley Gaines, left, and Sophie Cunningham / X

Cunningham, a shooting guard/small forward for the WNBA's Indiana Fever, is standing by her opinion that it's "common sense" to keep male athletes out of women's sports.

The Left can dish it out but has little tolerance for cognitive dissonance, and "common sense" produces psychotic reactions.

Cunningham told ESPN that she wants to "protect young girls in the locker room" and that "they shouldn't have to go against biological men."

You know you've hit high on the Left's rage meter when a New York Times podcast slams your comments.

Charlotte Wilder and Madeline Hill of "The Sports Gossip Show" were not only triggered by Cunningham, but also former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who was at a recent Fever game to support Cunningham. The two were later photographed together, sending the trans movement scurrying for their

Documents: 600,000 voter records hacked in Maricopa County, Arizona before 2020 election

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Documents: 600,000 voter records hacked in Maricopa County, Arizona before 2020 election

by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

A hacker extracted more than 600,000 voting records from Maricopa County, Arizona prior to the 2020 election, newly declassified documents show.

The suspect used a PowerShell script to exploit a vulnerability on Maricopa County's voter registration record servers and stored the hacked data at his home. The suspect, who confessed to the hacking operation, destroyed the files before an FBI raid, the documents show.

According to the documents, the suspect "first discovered a vulnerability" on the Maricopa County recorder's office website "after entering his own voter registration information." The suspect "noticed his voter ID appeared in the URL." He continued by testing the "vulnerability by entering several seven-digit numbers into the URL path resulting in access to different … registration information."

The suspect ran the PowerShell script "up until around November 2, 2020," when the county "fixed their firewall." The suspect admitted that "he probably would have continued the activity" if the issue hadn't been fixed.

"[The suspect] knew Maricopa County was aware of his activity because his script provided an error message and

‘Sense of Congress’ prioritizes ‘favorable’ balance of power in Pacific over Iran War

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‘Sense of Congress’ prioritizes ‘favorable’ balance of power in Pacific over Iran War

Special to WorldTribune, August 6, 2026 Real World News

Geostrategy-Direct, August 4, 2026

Although the U.S. conflict with Iran dealt a blow to China, it has not yet ended, and a growing shortage of missiles and anti-missile interceptors has raised concerns in the House of Representatives about the impact on the Pacific Theater.

The U.S. Navy last month announced a $17 million contract to produce a new laser gun called SONGBOW that was spurred in part by the Iran conflict. / Video Image

President Donald Trump reportedly held off on intense military strikes on Iran due to concerns the escalation could lead to unacceptable shortfalls in key weapons systems.

Defense legislators want the U.S. Department of War to produce reports to Congress on the impact of weapons shortages on requirements to deter China.

A section has been added to the pending fiscal 2027 defense policy bill requiring the Pentagon to produce regular reports on the effects of "unplanned global taskings" on the readiness, operations and deterrence in the Pacific.

During the Iran war, more than 1,200 Patriot interceptors, costing more than

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