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…
By the time Huda’s family could return home, the pomegranates had fallen off the trees and rotted, the parsley and rocket had withered and the lemongrass was sagging. Two months of displacement had left their garden in disrepair. “When we returned to the house, we didn’t know if it was still standing or not. You…
Kari Lake, pictured at the Republican National Convention in July, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Voice of America. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump says Kari Lake, a local television news anchor-turned-MAGA politician, will lead the federally funded broadcaster Voice of America. If successful, the…
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we examine how some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks are softening their previous stances as they seek…
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — The cold-blooded assassination of a health care CEO has uncorked a torrent of public anger at the health insurance industry. Should the ugliness of that fact make Americans bottle the anger…
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 10: (——EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘ZAPORIZHZHIA … [+] REGIONAL MILITARY ADMINISTRATION / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS——) Emergency services work to rescue civilians trapped under the rubble of a destroyed building after Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on December 10,…