Here’s some quick, inside baseball: An entertainment website like ours relies on a mix of traffic from search, referrals, and our regular, everyday audience to survive. It used to be that referrals—i.e., Facebook—dominated, so a lot of sites wrote with Facebook in mind (I’m sure you remember the Upworthy-like headlines). Many of those sites also…
French President Emmanuel Macron has named centrist ally Francois Bayrou as prime minister after several days of tense political gridlock. The 73-year-old from the centre-right Democratic Movement, or MoDem, party will replace Michel Barnier, who resigned last week after losing a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament. Of the 577 legislators, 331 from…
Trump-linked officials reportedly considering targeting bank stabilizer and polio vaccine Good morning, US politics blog readers. We have fewer than 40 days to go until Donald Trump is inaugurated president of the United States, and more signs are emerging of how he might follow through on his plans to transform the country. The New York…
For the common man or woman, being born on Christmas Day is typically seen as a slight annoyance as you have to share the fun with everyone around the world on your big day. But for celebrities, it’s likely seen as a cool trait. Nick Cave performs ‘A Rainy Night in Soho’ at the funeral…
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This is WESA Politics, a weekly newsletter by our political reporters providing analysis about Pittsburgh and state politics. If you want it earlier — we’ll deliver it to your inbox on Thursday afternoon — sign up here. Pittsburgh’s mayoral race had to start some time, obviously, but a lot of Democrats wouldn’t have minded putting it…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria. He is meeting on Friday with Turkey’s foreign minister after talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to try to bring Turkey into a consensus to prevent Syria from collapsing into…
The politician waiting in a little nook of the higgledy-piggledy restaurant, a former fisherman’s cottage on the Atlantic coast just north of Cape Town, is known as South Africa’s “Iron Lady”. But the outfit Helen Zille is wearing, a flowery dress and a wide-brimmed sun hat with a chinstrap, makes her look more like Bo…
Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating consequences for the American worker. Barack Obama had a chance to chart a different course,…
CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to pardon US Capitol rioters on Day One, but one month before Inauguration Day it’s not clear who among the hundreds of convicted rioters, defendants awaiting trial and remaining fugitives would receive clemency. Trump advisers are still solidifying their approach to January 6, 2021, pardons, several people…