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CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Markwayne Mullin is not ashamed of his challenge to fight a union boss during a Senate hearing Tuesday. Instead, the Oklahoma Republican is defending his behavior and actively suggesting that threats of violence have a special place in American history that should be revived. In

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Markwayne Mullin is not ashamed of his challenge to fight a union boss during a Senate hearing Tuesday. Instead, the Oklahoma Republican is defending his behavior and actively suggesting that threats of violence have a special place in American history that should be revived. In an

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes it feels like Congress is trying to parody itself. As lawmakers stagger toward the Thanksgiving recess after some of the ugliest and most unproductive weeks in years, the place is coming completely unglued. Despite the House passing a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open

Opinion by Stephen Brobeck (CNN) — On October 31, a Kansas City, Missouri, jury ruled that the National Association of Realtors, or NAR, and several residential brokerages engaged in illegal price-fixing and awarded damages to Missouri home sellers that could total more than $5 billion. This decision has made it highly likely that in the future, the industry will no

Analysis by Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Leaders of the world’s top two economies will have plenty to discuss when they meet on Wednesday for the first time in a year. US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are slated to get together in San Francisco on the sidelines of the

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Bonds are heading towards their third consecutive year of losses in what some analysts are calling the worst bear market in history. But optimism this week that inflation is coming under control could be enough to turn things around. What’s happening: US bond yields, which move

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes it feels like Congress is trying to parody itself. As lawmakers stagger toward the Thanksgiving recess after some of the ugliest and most unproductive weeks in years, the place is coming completely unglued. Despite the House passing a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes it feels like Congress is trying to parody itself. As lawmakers stagger toward the Thanksgiving recess after some of the ugliest and most unproductive weeks in years, the place is coming completely unglued. Despite the House passing a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes it feels like Congress is trying to parody itself. As lawmakers stagger toward the Thanksgiving recess after some of the ugliest and most unproductive weeks in years, the place is coming completely unglued. Despite the House passing a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open beyond

Opinion by Stephen I. Vladeck (CNN) — Rules are just empty words if there’s no hope they’ll be followed. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once wrote that “if put to the choice, one might well prefer to live under Soviet substantive law applied in good faith by our common-law procedures than under our substantive law enforced by Soviet procedural

CNN By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — President Joe Biden hopes to walk away from his closely watched summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday having put the US-China relationship on steadier footing after months of tension between the two superpowers. With conflicts raging in the Middle East and

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The current US president, Joe Biden, has spent his first term talking about the need to use American democracy as a counterweight to autocracy in China, among other countries. Biden called out Chinese President Xi Jinping by name in his State of the Union address earlier this

Analysis by Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping arrived in San Fransisco on Tuesday for a highly anticipated summit with US President Joe Biden — where the Chinese leader will likely try to bolster his country’s troubled economy and push back on perceived US efforts to suppress it. That Xi is on his

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — When President Joe Biden meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday, it will mark the first time in exactly one year and one day since the heads of the two nuclear-armed rivals have seen each other in person. Much has happened since that day in Bali, Indonesia, last year. The

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are the couple of the hour. The pop star and the football player are young, gorgeous, at the top of their respective games and seemingly in the throes of an intense new love. They’re also a surprisingly positive relationship model for men and women

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Is this deja vu or something new? The broad outlines of the government spending fight as it stands in November are the same as they were in October. ►A deadline looms. Funding expires after Friday, November 17, and lawmakers do not have a definitive plan to

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is promising a second presidency that would be an aberration in American history. The former and possibly future commander in chief aspires to strongman power if he wins back the White House next year. He believes his authority would be absolute. He wants vengeance against

Opinion by Ganesh Sitaraman (CNN) — If this holiday season is like most others, we can expect flight delays, cancellations, lost baggage and all the miseries that come with flying. Policymakers often try to address these issues with a “passengers’ bill of rights.” But they rarely seem to make a dent in improving the overall travel experience. The reason is

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. Ongoing conflict in Europe and the Middle East, extended

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — On the campaign trail on Saturday, Donald Trump asserted that there was no terrorism in the US when he was the president, a claim that is false in myriad ways. It’s not the first time he has made the claim, which is also linked to Trump’s plans, should