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Analysis by Auzinea Bacon and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump may find the road to cheaper gas prices is a little rocky. “Frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill,” Trump said at an October rally. Trump has said he wants to lower gas prices — which currently average $3.07 per gallon —

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — “Impoundment” is another word that Americans may need to learn in the vernacular of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. If “recess appointments” are the unlikely and unprecedented way Trump wants to work around the Senate to get his most controversial nominees in charge of Cabinet agencies, “impoundment”

Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Americans have spent the last few years complaining about inflation. But price rises in Russia are eye-watering by comparison – and just one symptom of an economy that is overheating. Butter, some meats, and onions are about 25% more expensive than a year ago, according to official data.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is refusing to back down over his Cabinet picks in the first clash in an epic battle he will wage against Washington when he takes office next year. The coming days will show whether Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — The decision by US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use long-range American missiles in Russia follows a familiar pattern. The White House refuses for months to grant a weapons request from Ukraine, fearing it would be escalatory. Kyiv loudly decries the refusal, and just when

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — “When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold” is a saying used to describe how the massive American economy can affect global businesses, but it also applies to foreign policy in the Trump era. President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral mandate gives him considerable leverage when he

CNN Analysis by Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The bad news keeps coming. Wherever Kyiv looks, Moscow seems to have the advantage. Russia is making gains at key spots along the frontlines of eastern and southeastern Ukraine, while unleashing wave after wave of aerial terror against Ukrainian cities. At the same time, Moscow is preparing

Analysis by Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The bad news keeps coming. Wherever Kyiv looks, Moscow seems to have the advantage. Russia is making gains at key spots along the frontlines of eastern and southeastern Ukraine, while unleashing wave after wave of aerial terror against Ukrainian cities. At the same time, Moscow is preparing to

Analysis by Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor (CNN) — From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in Baku. What they didn’t foresee was the demolition job Azerbaijan’s own leader would do from the inside. In what should be one of

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Every hero’s journey has its downbeat second act — the part where many-headed monsters have to be fought back, where the road gets dark and twisty and teeming with threats — before the sun comes up and suddenly everything is, more or less, back on track.

CNN Analysis by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent (CNN) — Over the past year, the question has been coming in from everywhere – from my patients and family members, from colleagues and passengers I chatted with on airplanes: Is Ozempic right for me? Or any of the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs

Analysis by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent (CNN) — Over the past year, the question has been coming in from everywhere – from my patients and family members, from colleagues and passengers I chatted with on airplanes: Is Ozempic right for me? Or any of the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs that

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Each of Donald Trump’s most provocative Cabinet picks has been a calculated punch in the mouth to experts, elites and bureaucrats in Washington’s government agencies. But his decision to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, “go wild” on health and medicines as health

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Each of Donald Trump’s most provocative Cabinet picks has been a calculated punch in the mouth to experts, elites and bureaucrats in Washington’s government agencies. But his decision to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, “go wild” on health and medicines as

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was rejected by a Senate vote occurred in 1989, when George H.W. Bush nominated

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s important, in any political environment, to triage the things you’re freaking out about. Allow me, as someone whose livelihood depends on chronicling the goings-on of megalomaniacal billionaires, to offer some guidance: Donald Trump asking Elon Musk to oversee a made-up government “department” named after a

Analysis by Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — A brief scuffle broke out in the stands as Israeli soccer fans returned to Europe, but a heavy security presence in Paris ensured there was no repeat of the large-scale violence seen in Amsterdam last week. Thousands of extra security personnel were deployed in the French capital

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s increasingly provocative Cabinet picks have left some Republican senators aghast and Washington in shock. But they really shouldn’t. Because the outrage is the point. The president-elect reached a new level on Wednesday, announcing Florida Republican Matt Gaetz — one of his most zealous agents of disruption,

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s increasingly provocative Cabinet picks have left some Republican senators aghast and Washington in shock. But they really shouldn’t. Because the outrage is the point. The president-elect reached a new level on Wednesday, announcing Florida Republican Matt Gaetz — one of his most zealous agents of

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Several major retailers earned a grade of “F” for failing to protect consumers from toxic chemicals in the products they sell, a new report says. Before you start your holiday shopping, see which stores have removed harmful plastics and replaced them with safer alternatives. Here’s what else you