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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Not even presidents can reverse time, so there’s only so much Joe Biden can do to defuse one of his top general election liabilities – his advanced age. But Biden, 81, appears to be in far better shape on this question than he was a week ago –

Opinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — President Joe Biden tried to put voters’ concerns about his age to rest last week with a fiery State of the Union address. From his forceful performance to his self-deprecating jokes about his age, he inoculated himself from the narrative, pushed by some on the right, that the 81-year-old

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier Tuesday night. Biden and Trump will win their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump will also win

CNN By Cristopher Ulloa and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — Chilean aviation authorities are on their way to New Zealand to investigate the LATAM Airlines flight that had a mid-air drop Monday, as teams on the ground remove the plane’s flight data recorders for analysis. Several passengers described to CNN the terrifying flight from Australia

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s politics are mostly focused on himself, as opposed to an ideology, but two notable evolutions this week – on Social Security and TikTok – spotlight something new. Both Trump and President Joe Biden will look to sell their policy positions now that their

Opinion by Jonathan I. Lunine (CNN) — How tenuous is our planet’s ability to support life? The answer might come from one of our nearest planetary neighbors. Orbiting spacecraft and rovers deployed on Mars over the past twenty years have found strong evidence for conditions billions of years ago that were very different from the dry, cold

Opinion by Rosa Prince London (CNN) — It was a charming Mother’s Day snap intended to assure an anxious nation that all was well with their beloved royal family. Instead, the statement by Catherine, Princess of Wales that she had ham-fistedly manipulated a photograph showing her posing with her children appears to have sent much of the British public

Analysis by David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — You’d think Boeing’s already miserable 2024 couldn’t get any worse. But on Monday, a 787 Dreamliner plunged suddenly mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers, after a pilot said he temporarily lost control of the aircraft. The pilot was able to recover and land the plane safely, but it’s not

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk is notoriously skeptical of charity, preferring to focus on his for-profit ventures, which he believes will offer more transformative change for the world. As CEO of Tesla, “I’ve done more for the environment than any single human on Earth,” he told the New York

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Suffice to say, this was no perfect call. CNBC on Monday made the curious decision to welcome Donald Trump onto its

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, 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. A key measure of US inflation printed higher than

Opinion by Ekaterina Kotrikadze (CNN) — Russia just wrapped up what officials would have us call an election. But of course, there are no elections in Russia anymore. Instead, this is the reappointment of Vladimir Putin to the highest position in the largest country in the world. In 2003, when Putin was still a young president, I

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — A new glimpse inside Donald Trump’s inner circle shows how the ex-president’s men and women often confront a fateful dilemma under huge personal pressure. Do they owe their loyalty to a rule-breaking boss or the rule of law and a conventional view of the national interest? The latest long-time

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Viktor Orbán is taking his blueprint on dismantling democracy to Mar-a-Lago. The Hungarian prime minister first won power through a democratic election, then proceeded to weaken the institutions of that democracy by eroding the legal system, firing civil servants, politicizing business, attacking the press and intimidating opposition

Opinion by Jose Antonio Vargas (CNN) — In 2017, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi invited me to attend President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress, one of a few undocumented immigrants who were invited by Democratic leaders to the “People’s House.” Then, as now, immigration was central to Trump’s election campaign. And then, as now,

Analysis by Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — The image of a smiling Catherine, Princess of Wales, flanked by her three children, should have put a stop to the explosion of speculation over her health and whereabouts. Instead, it triggered a whole new controversy for Britain’s royal family after multiple global news agencies

CNN Analysis by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The Oscar telecast always juggles three major objectives: Honoring the year’s best films and those who made them; broadly celebrating and promoting the movie-going habit; and putting on a good show, both for the bigwigs in the theater and the folks at home. The second one of

Analysis by Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is widely expected to sail to re-election in a nationwide vote that begins on March 15, securing a fifth term in office and a full third decade as Russia’s paramount leader. With the death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, it’s fair to

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, 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. It’s been a year since the collapse of Silicon