The Globalist Podcast (September 4, 2024): Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro looks to jail the country’s opposition leader Edmundo González. This after the US recognised González as the legitimate winner of July’s presidential election.
Plus: African leaders arrive in Beijing for a key summit. Then: we dive into pop-girl summer and look ahead to autumn’s music trends.
Linda Sun, who worked for both Gov. Kathy Hochul and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was accused of using her position to benefit the Chinese government.
More than 50 people were killed by two high-speed missiles that hit a military academy in the eastern city of Poltava, one of the most lethal Russian strikes in the war.
In strikes and protests, many Israelis are pushing their government to prioritize the release of hostages above the immediate defeat of Hamas. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to change course.
Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posing a quiet but growing threat.
The Globalist Podcast (September 3, 2024): Benjamin Netanyahu faces surging pressure to secure a ceasefire deal, as a reported half million Israelis took to the streets in protest and Joe Biden accused him of not doing enough to bring home the hostages.
Then: Turkey officially joins Brics. Plus: Ukraine Fashion Week kicks off for the first time in two years following Russia’s invasion.
In his first news conference since the bodies of six killed hostages were recovered, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to budge on his conditions for any truce in Gaza.
The president introduced his No. 2, Kamala Harris, at a Labor Day event in Pittsburgh as the Democrats campaigned in crucial Midwestern “blue wall” states.
The people who voted against Donald Trump and for Nikki Haley in the G.O.P. primaries are weighing whether to support Kamala Harris. Either way, they could help sway a close election in swing states.
Hamas leaders spent years developing an underground warfare plan. Records from the battlefield show the group’s preparations, including blast doors to protect against Israeli bombs and soldiers.
The Israeli military said Sunday that Hamas had killed the hostages before they were discovered by Israeli troops on Saturday.
Israel and Hamas agreed to pause the war to permit the vaccination of 640,000 children in Gaza, a daunting effort for health workers.
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
Over dozens of events and more than 70 interviews, Mr. Vance’s performances as Donald Trump’s attack dog have endeared him to his boss, even if America broadly is less enthusiastic.
Monocle on Sunday (September 1, 2024): Emma Nelson, Marta Lorimer and Yossi Mekelberg on the weekend’s biggest talking points.
We also speak to ‘The Foreign Desk’ team at the Globsec Forum in Prague, and Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent Petri Burtsoff joins for a roundup of the latest Nordic news.
Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance.
About a quarter of the residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, have moved away — and more are expected to soon follow.
A constellation of YouTubers, pranksters and streamers who influence young men is helping Mr. Trump win the bro vote.
The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage.
Starting Sunday, the Israeli military and Hamas will observe brief, staggered pauses in fighting to allow 640,000 Gazan children to be vaccinated, U.N. officials said.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s fund-raising has benefited from a surge of interest from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Bob Garrison was determined to rescue his son from the streets. The path was more difficult than he had imagined.
The president will mostly be deployed to the vital swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as the vice president seeks to define a separate political identity.
Chapters: 0:00 WSJ poll 0:40 Harris’s visibility 1:42 Key issues 2:24 Favorability 3:15 What’s next?
While Trump still leads on key issues like the economy and immigration, Harris had 48% support to his 47% in a head-to-head test, claiming an advantage within the survey’s margin of error. WSJ breaks down the major takeaways from the poll.
The Globalist Podcast (August 30, 2024): Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sit down for their first joint TV interview while Donald Trump reposts lewd comments.
Then: we discuss the state of the free press in Hong Kong as editors face sedition charges. Plus: we examine Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II’s unlikely relationship.
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