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Firefighters union boss wins hotly-contested Dem primary in a key Pennsylvania swing district
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One of the nation’s most narrowly divided swing congressional districts chose its Democratic nominee Tuesday evening, as Bob Brooks was projected to win in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.
The contested primary brought Democratic Party divisions front and center, featuring firefighters union boss Bob Brooks — endorsed by both Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure and EMILY’s List-endorsed candidate Carol Obando-Derstine, who is seen as the preferred pick of the district’s last Democratic representative, former Rep. Susan Wild of Allentown.
Brooks received several high-profile endorsements from Shapiro, Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and top state Democrats, including House Majority Leader Matt Bradford of Skippack and Sen. Vincent Hughes of Northwest Philadelphia.
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The skyline of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the state’s third-largest city, is visible from the Tilghman Street Bridge. (Charles Creitz)
Brooks also earned the endorsement of the mayor of the area’s largest city — Allentown, the third-largest city in the commonwealth.
Meanwhile, McClure — the only current local officeholder in the race — did not immediately gain traction against Brooks.
Brooks appeared to weather intraparty controversy after old social media posts expressing more moderate or conservative views resurfaced — including one using an off-color sexual term to describe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for criticizing law enforcement during the BLM era.
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Recent construction on Eighth Street in Allentown revealed an old-style campaign sign for Bill Heydt, the city’s last Republican mayor who served from 1994 to 2002. (Charlie Creitz)
Crosswell was born in nearby Schuylkill County but for many years worked in Washington for the Justice Department. He was one of several prosecutors who resigned in protest of the Trump administration dropping a federal probe into former New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams has since become less critical of the right and has often dinged his successor, Zohran Mamdani, on social media.
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., attends the House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled «Beyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses» in the Rayburn Building on May 7, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The district’s tri-city hub of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton — known locally as «A.B.E.» or «The Valley» — has a blue-collar history that has at times entered the national consciousness through Billy Joel’s famous anthem about Bethlehem Steel and other firms «closing all the factories down,» while the now-blighted SteelStacks often serve as both a backdrop for what once was and a rallying call for politicians pushing what comes next.
That «next» has included a wave of new warehouses and firms dedicated to interstate commerce, along with growth tied to the tech sector.
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Farmland in the northern part of the district is gradually being developed into homes and warehouses — to the chagrin of many longtime residents — as an influx of people from higher-tax New Jersey and New York, along with the area’s changing socioeconomic makeup, brings more liberal and progressive voters into a once «Reagan Democrat»-style region rooted in agriculture and union labor.
The former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces are seen from Pennsylvania Route 412 near Lehigh University’s campus. (Charles Creitz/Fox News Digital)
The district’s current boundaries still reflect that contrast, as the farther north one travels, the more rural, agrarian or forested — and conservative — the area becomes. Wild drew criticism twice for appearing to insult the Trump-supporting swath of Carbon County, the only one of the district’s three counties entirely within the 7th Congressional District to vote for Mackenzie in 2024.
The Republican in the race, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie of Lower Macungie, was a state representative in western Lehigh County for many years before upsetting Wild by one percentage point in 2024.
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Mackenzie has since drawn praise from President Donald Trump and criticism from the left, whose protesters often gather outside his office and spill onto busy Cedar Crest Boulevard in southwest Allentown.
As the House GOP’s narrow majority hangs in the balance, it remains to be seen which side is energized enough to turn out for its candidate in a race the nation will be watching closely.
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Rusia lanzó un nuevo ataque con drones contra varias regiones de Ucrania: al menos dos muertos y 12 heridos
Un ataque del Ejército ruso contra la ciudad ucraniana de Dnipro, en el este del país, y Odesa, al sur, provocó la muerte de dos personas y dejó seis heridos, según informaron este miércoles las autoridades militares regionales.
Moscú continúa con los bombardeos sobre ciudades ucranianas tras más de cuatro años de invasión, aunque el último ataque se produce luego de una serie de enfrentamientos especialmente violentos entre ambos bandos en las últimas semanas.
“Dos personas murieron y seis resultaron heridas en el ataque ruso nocturno contra Dnipro”, informó Oleksandr Ganzha, jefe de la administración militar regional, vía Telegram. Cinco de los heridos fueron hospitalizados, tres de ellos en estado grave, precisó Ganzha.
Como resultado de otro ataque del Kremlin en Odesa, el sector residencial, los almacenes y una infraestructura crítica de la ciudad resultaron dañados. Los equipos de rescate trabajaron simultáneamente en varios puntos para mitigar los daños causados por los ataques.
“En uno de los distritos de la ciudad, un edificio residencial de una sola planta quedó destruido y posteriormente se incendió. Se registró el impacto de un dron contra el piso 18 de un edificio de 24 plantas aún en construcción. También se produjo un incendio de grandes proporciones en un almacén donde se guardaba vajilla”, detalló la Dirección General del Servicio Estatal de Emergencias de Ucrania en la región de Odesa.
Al menos 86 rescatistas y 20 unidades de bomberos y rescate del Servicio Estatal de Emergencias participaron en las labores de sofocación esta madrugada, además de cuatro personas y una unidad de equipo de la Asociación de Bomberos Voluntarios de Ucrania.
En la región nororiental de Sumy, las autoridades reportaron al menos seis heridos por “ataques masivos con drones enemigos”. El jefe regional, Oleg Grygorov, indicó que Moscú atacó “zonas residenciales” en las comunidades de Konotop y Shostka.
A su vez, En Kharkiv, una joven de 16 años sufrió una reacción de estrés agudo tras un ataque con drones rusos en el distrito de Novobavarsky, de acuerdo con el jefe de la administración militar regional, Oleg Synegubov.
Por otro lado, el Ministerio de Defensa ruso informó que 273 drones ucranianos fueron interceptados y destruidos durante la noche del martes. El alcalde de Moscú, Serguéi Sobianin, comunicó que un dron que se dirigía a Moscú fue destruido por las fuerzas de defensa aérea.
La ONU denunció el martes un repunte de los ataques rusos contra Kiev en las últimas semanas, justo después del alto el fuego de tres días acordado a principios de mayo. El organismo advirtió que, pese a superar ya los cuatro años, “la guerra es cada día más mortífera”.
Durante una sesión del Consejo de Seguridad sobre Ucrania, la directora de la división de Europa, Asia Central y las Américas del Departamento de Asuntos Políticos y de Consolidación de la Paz de la ONU, Kayoko Gotoh, y la directora de la División de Respuesta a las Crisis de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA), Edem Wosornu, informaron sobre la situación.
La reunión se celebró a petición de Kiev, que el 13 de mayo solicitó la convocatoria del órgano tras advertir de la intensificación de los ataques rusos con drones y misiles contra la población civil e infraestructuras críticas, inmediatamente después del alto el fuego pactado entre Ucrania y Rusia del 9 al 11 de mayo por el Día de la Victoria.
Gotoh aseguró que la semana pasada Ucrania enfrentó “uno de los bombardeos aéreos más importantes” desde el inicio de la invasión en 2022. “Entre el 13 y el 14 de mayo, Rusia lanzó más de 1.500 drones y docenas de misiles, atacando a ciudades ucranianas en todo el país”, detalló. Según la directora regional, el mes pasado se consolidó como el más mortífero en casi un año, con 238 civiles muertos y 1.404 heridos.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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Philadelphia’s Chris Rabb, a far-left state lawmaker backed by the «Squad,» won the crowded and at-times-heated Democratic primary contest for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District.
The district — rated the most Democratic in the nation — includes much of Center City, all of North Philadelphia and West Philadelphia, and is one of the few Black-majority districts in the country, with Tuesday night’s results essentially foreshadowing November’s likely outcome.
Rabb, whose district includes Mount Airy and West Oak Lane, celebrated endorsements from progressive figures, including members of the «Squad.»
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The Liberty Bell, saved from the British by Lynnport farmer Frederick Leaser, is displayed in its Philadelphia shrine. (iStock)
State Sen. Sharif Street is the son of former popular yet controversial Mayor John Street, and is endorsed by several officials including his father’s predecessor Ed Rendell.
He is a former chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and appeared to characterize himself as the true Philadelphian in the race.
«People who are from, live and can vote in Philadelphia have supported me,» Street told the Penn Capital-Star. «People who are from outside the city, they’re cozying up to my opponents.»
Besides Rendell, Street had the endorsement of the state party, Mayor Cherelle Parker and other noted Philadelphians.
Street, who is Muslim, made news when he spoke out against a virulent anti-Israel protest in the city earlier this year, telling Fox News Digital at the time he «forcefully condemn[s] the antisemitic rally that took place today in Rittenhouse Square.»
Rep. Gregorio Casar, D-Texas, was one of several lawmakers to endorse Rabb, saying in a joint statement with Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., that Rabb is a «social justice activist [and] an educator who helped unionize 1,500 adjunct professors and a legislator who has taken on Republicans and the billionaire class to create a democracy that works for everyone rather than just the wealthy few.»
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Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb, D-West Oak Lane, is shown. (Joe Lamberti/Getty Images)
Rabb, 56, said in a statement that he also welcomed the endorsement of the left-wing Working Families Party and the Justice Democrats — a group that has supported «Squad» members and other federal candidates of similar ideology.
«Our coalition is people-powered, and our allies are united in our fight to demand a prosperous future for the multiracial working class families and communities who are the heart of Philly and represent our city’s incredible strength and potential,» he said.
Rabb’s political history includes working with the first elected Black Democrat in the Senate, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, in the 1990s. Two Black Republicans had been elected previously in the 1880s from Mississippi.
Rabb was endorsed by Philadelphia City Council Minority Leader Kendra Brooks and Minority Whip Nicolas O’Rourke, both of the WFP. Republicans have just one member on council — longtime Northeast Philadelphia representative Brian O’Neill, whose presence is considered the «third party.»
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Pa. State Sen. Sharif Street speaks during a rally at the Capitol Building against life without parole on Oct. 25, 2017.
Dr. Ala Stanford was recently a Biden administration HHS appointee — as she led the agency’s «Region III» covering Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The pediatric surgeon made news during her tenure for setting up a major 24-hour COVID-19 vaccine site at Temple University’s Liacouras Center at 15th Street and Montgomery Avenue and reportedly making house calls to offer testing.
With no clear Republican challenger, Tuesday night’s winner is expected to sail to victory in November in what is considered the nation’s most Democratic Congressional District.
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