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Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more than

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — When CNN asked for your questions about former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial – for his role in hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with him – we got a flood of input. Not all of it

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — When CNN asked for your questions about former President Donald Trump’s upcoming first criminal trial – for his role in hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with him – we got a flood of input. Not all

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan for his alleged role in a hush money scheme to silence his alleged mistresses before the 2016 election. It will be historic; no former US president has ever faced criminal prosecution. It will be salacious; the alleged mistresses

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — “Much of the American artistic and cultural work about the Vietnam War, even as it engages in anti-American criticism, places Americans firmly and crudely at the story’s center,” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his 2016 study, “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.” You could expand this dictum to

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy

Opinion by Lawrence Levy (CNN) — From the veterans who surged into new “bedroom communities” after World War II to the growing number of immigrants now diversifying and reviving them, suburbia has served as a symbol of renewal. President Joe Biden knows this fresh-start narrative poignantly: The suburbs are not only where he built a soaring career

Opinion By Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — While many Democrats still consider former President Donald Trump to be about pure chaotic improvisation and impulse, they should consider that his campaign team has put together a very clear roadmap as to how they intend to work different institutions to their advantage. A potentially successful multi-prong strategy with electoral, media, legal, legislative and

Opinion by Bill Carter (CNN) — People can get nostalgic about almost anything. I’m nostalgic about good egg creams, which once were in every place with a soda fountain in my native Brooklyn. Also, I’m nostalgic about every street game we played with a Spalding (“Spal-deen”) high bouncer. Until recently, I had not thought about being nostalgic about

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — For millions of Americans, it’s a moment they can’t forget. On October 3, 1995, people gathered around TVs in living rooms, bars and workplaces to watch the verdict in the trial of O.J. Simpson, who had been charged with the grisly murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — When it comes to building planes, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is all about streamlining costs. An accountant by training, Calhoun has prioritized fiscal discipline over his four years at the helm, tightening the belt to free up cash flow and put the company on better financial

Analysis by Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Energy stocks are back in vogue. The S&P 500

Opinion By Gene Seymour, CNN (CNN) — So now that he is dead, what is there to do with the perpetually troubling, infuriating American conundrum that was Orenthal James Simpson? My guess is that we’ll do the same thing we’ve been doing for all his public life, right up until Thursday, when his family announced his death,

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — A Republican rift is jeopardizing extension of a cornerstone of the US intelligence gathering by which the government hoovers up massive amounts of internet and cellphone data. The trove of data now in jeopardy has vital importance to the US. According to one assessment, it forms the

Opinion by Michael Conway (CNN) — A New York appellate court on Tuesday refused to delay former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial because he objects to the gag order that’s been imposed on him by the trial judge, Juan Merchan. While the appellate decision on the merits of the gag rule won’t come until later this

Opinion by Holly Thomas (CNN) — Few members of the metropolitan liberal elite would admit the 2001 movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” was their favorite film, but if they picked up a battered copy of the 1996 novel, they’d be hard-pressed to put it down. Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell

Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws on reproductive rights in Europe. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party has proposed changing the law – which

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s rarely a good time for prices to rise a lot. Good luck finding someone who will tell you they enjoy it when their hard-earned dollars can’t stretch as far. But, if you’re President Joe Biden, now is a particularly bad time for inflation to reaccelerate.