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CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden bragged about picking the most diverse Cabinet in history, one that he said “looks like America,” President-elect Donald Trump is looking for TV experience. While Trump’s picks so far mostly lack in racial or gender diversity – there are a handful of

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden bragged about picking the most diverse Cabinet in history, one that he said “looks like America,” President-elect Donald Trump is looking for TV experience. While Trump’s picks so far mostly lack in racial or gender diversity – there are a handful of women

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — It is a very specific and high-profile warning, so you would expect the information behind it to have been quite precise. The US Embassy in Kyiv has not closed since it relocated during the opening months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But on

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Comcast just jump-started a new season of major change across the television industry. And no one quite knows what will happen next. On Wednesday morning, the media giant confirmed that it is spinning off most of its cable channels, including MSNBC and CNBC, into a separate

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO who’s been tapped to run the US Commerce Department, has in recent years become a prominent cheerleader for Tether, the company behind one of the world’s biggest crypto assets. But even by the standards of crypto — an alternative financial

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — All eyes should have been on the sky over a launchpad in Texas on Tuesday as the world’s largest rocket streaked thunderously toward space. But the orbit currently getting the most attention is not in the heavens — it’s the increasingly intimate one back on Earth uniting the

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s been two years since OpenAI bestowed ChatGPT upon the world and set off a kind of gold rush for artificial intelligence. Billions of dollars are pouring into AI-focused and AI-adjacent companies on the promise that the technology is going to accelerate (or possibly obliterate) every

Analysis by Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump is returning to the White House without many of the guardrails of his first term. Many Never-Trump Republicans in Congress have converted or been defeated. Former economic adviser Gary Cohn and other anti-tariff voices are not likely to be welcome in the new Trump

Analysis by Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Donald Trump is poised to enter the White House for the second time. His agenda will include overseeing the development of artificial intelligence, potentially the most powerful technology of our time. The president-elect has promised to “slash excess regulations” and tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk, another critic

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is creating a show of force that will help define his new term as he tries to leverage Matt Gaetz into the attorney general’s office. The president-elect has been calling senators to press them to confirm his pick early next year, CNN reported Monday —

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is creating a show of force that will help define his new term as he tries to leverage Matt Gaetz into the attorney general’s office. The president-elect has been calling senators to press them to confirm his pick early next year, CNN reported Monday — even

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks are unique for many reasons. One thing that makes several of them stand out is that drug use from their recent or distant past is not a major issue, is overshadowed by other issues or is not currently raising a furor in

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