Michael Sallah
Deputy Managing Editor and Investigations at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Senior Reporter at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter & investigations editor @PittsburghPG. Formerly of @washingtonpost and @miamiherald. Dad. On The Streets. The underdog matters.
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1 month ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Jacob Geanous
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church. “I too address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 people below.
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1 month ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah
The Rev. Rich Mullen was still mourning the death of his brother two years ago when his close friend, then Archbishop Robert Prevost, pulled him aside at the St. Thomas of Villanova Monastery near Philadelphia. For a moment, the two men shut out the commotion around them. “He said, 'I know your brother died, and I prayed for him,’” Father Mullen recalled.
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2 months ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin
The firm that poured millions of dollars into a massive steel factory in the heart of Appalachia had no office, no phone, no website, nor any employees. To nearly everyone, Veroni Alloys LLC, was a mystery. In an elaborate scheme, the company moved the money through a network of more than a dozen bank accounts to finance the purchase of the bustling facility that had employed generations of steelworkers, records show.
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2 months ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin |Jimmy Cloutier
President Donald Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can't compete with cheaper, cleaner alternatives. And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running.
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2 months ago |
post-gazette.com | Mike Wereschagin |Anya Litvak |Michael Sallah
Amanda Lawson’s 45th birthday gift to herself was a new tattoo. Her right forearm now bears a coal miner’s helmet shining a light with the words: “When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”For Ms. Lawson, a black lung benefits counselor in West Virginia, the quote from former President Ronald Reagan represents the battle she has been fighting for the past seven years: helping miners with the disease get critical benefits and protections.
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THE FINAL BATTLE: While the White House launches a public campaign to boost coal production in America, thousands of miners suffering from black lung spend years fighting for benefits to pay their bills -- and to stay alive. "I like just getting my money so I have enough to bury
BROKEN PROMISES - the Trump administration said it's ending protection status for thousands of Afghans in America -- many who helped the US during its occupation in their native country and could now face deadly reprisals by a government still under control of the Taliban.
JORDAN TRAVIS, the heart and soul of @seminole football whose career was cut short by devastating injury, announces his retirement from NFL. A true warrior. https://t.co/tPaClBn1xS via @on3sports
