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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump had an apocalyptic warning for a group of farmers in swing state Pennsylvania: If he loses the election, “You won’t have a farm very long.” Trump spoke Monday at an event highlighting his vow to protect rural Americans from the perceived predatory power of China,

Analysis by Juliana Liu and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s economic slowdown isn’t an abstract concept for Zheng Jiewen, 23, who works full time at an ad agency in the southern megacity of Guangzhou. Mainly a print model, Zheng used to rake in 30,000 yuan ($4,230) a month when she began working

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Wars of peace are rarely successful. They are normally of choice: pre-emptively attacking to neutralize a perceived threat. Israel and Hezbollah have been stuck in the tit-for-tat horror of escalation chicken for nearly a year. But over the past week Israel has clearly decided to massively amplify

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — So we finally got a rate cut — and a supersized one at that. After the move was announced Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said officials made that decision to keep the US economy in its current “good shape.” Will that pan out? Only time

Analysis By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut last week has given prospective homebuyers something to celebrate: lower borrowing costs. The half-percentage-point cut took rates off a 23-year high, where they’d been for more than a year, and the central bank signaled that more cuts could be on the way.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White House

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential election continues to be the closest of the century. In fact, it is the closest race for the White House in the past 60 years. Polling since the September 10 debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shows that while the vice president seems to

Analysis by Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike reduces a nine-story apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburb to a large mound of rubble. A man covered in dust flails lifelessly in the arms of a rescuer. A corpse in a body bag is whizzed past parked ambulances on the back of

Analysis by Fareed Zakaria, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the clamor of the campaign season, we are missing what should be a landmark event. The United States has managed to bring inflation down without – so far – triggering a recession. This undeniable soft landing is a rare achievement that the conventional wisdom suggests has only

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The current drama should feel so familiar: ► A deadline looms for a must-pass, stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. ► Former President Donald Trump is encouraging Republicans to embrace a shutdown if they can’t get Democrats to agree to add controversial immigration-related language –

Analysis by Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — Next week, an already very public debate over whether Ukraine should be allowed to use long-range Western-supplied missiles on Russian soil will come under an even brighter international spotlight. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet not only US President Joe Biden, who has signaled he is open

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Does Donald Trump really want his running mate, JD Vance, to have the final debating word this fall? Or does Trump want that opportunity for himself? That’s one of the questions now on the table after Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Trump on Saturday to a second debate hosted by CNN next

Analysis by Richard Roth and Tara John, CNN United Nations (CNN) — It’s time for UNGA 79! Quick explanation: the United Nations General Assembly is an annual world leaders’ summit that has gone on for nearly eight decades since the international body’s founding in San Francisco. It’s a place for long speeches, private country-to-country whisper sessions, and group meetings on everything from regulating

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — A fired-up Vice President Kamala Harris adopted a rapid-response mentality to seize on the key issue of abortion rights this week. Referring to people behind abortion bans as “these hypocrites,” she argued at a hastily arranged campaign event in Atlanta that some US communities now dealing with

Analysis by Ryan Struyk, CNN (CNN) — Almost three decades ago, Richard Hays, a United Methodist minister and the soon-to-be dean of Duke Divinity School, wrote what quickly became the go-to traditionalist Christian argument against same-sex marriage. Now, Hays says he’s changed his mind. In a seismic reversal, one of the most prominent and influential

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The history of DNA-testing startup 23andMe reads like a formula for a screenplay set in turn-of-the-century Silicon Valley: A Yale grad grows tired of hedge fund life and returns to her roots in the Bay Area. Marries the co-founder of Google. Becomes CEO of an ambitious