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Analysis by Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN Harayana, India (CNN) — Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops. “I’ve suffered a tremendous loss,” said the third generation farmer, who relies solely on growing the grain to feed his young

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s very complicated legal calendar is coming into view. It currently appears that his criminal trials will occur after a large portion of Republican primary voters have decided whether to make him their nominee for the third consecutive time, but before Election Day. On Monday, a

Opinion by Katharine K. Wilkinson (CNN) — My most beloved neighbor is a rangy octogenarian who’s lived in our Atlanta neighborhood for her entire life. I nicknamed her QN after her Latin name: Quercus nigra. Pronounced “queen,” it feels like bare minimum recognition of her royalty. Imagine QN, if you will, as a dendro-grande-dame —

Opinion by Steven Lubet (CNN) — The best defense former President Donald Trump has against his indictment in Washington for multiple conspiracies to defraud the United States as part of the events of January 6, 2021, hinges on his purportedly sincere belief that he actually won the 2020 election. According to the prosecution, Trump and his co-conspirators attempted to

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Welcome to jobs week. Investors are eagerly anticipating a slew of news about the health of the US labor market over the next few days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics kicks things off on Tuesday with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report for July.

CNN Opinion by Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King (CNN) — Editor’s note: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, along with their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, direct the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit think tank and community action group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. The views expressed here

Opinion by Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King (CNN) — Editor’s note: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, along with their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, direct the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit think tank and community action group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. The views expressed here are

Analysis by Clare Sebastian and Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — “We have no funding restrictions,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of military top brass in December. “The country, the government will provide whatever the army asks for.” Eighteen months into his war in Ukraine, Putin seems to be keeping that promise. But

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Two Trump co-defendants in Georgia who requested speedy trials asked a judge Wednesday to formally separate their cases from the sprawling overall indictment, a move that would undercut Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ attempt to hold one massive trial for all 19 defendants in the election interference

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Americans are about to learn significant new details on the timing and the substance of the trials of Donald Trump, even as the former president and Republican front-runner steps up his effort to alchemize his unprecedented legal peril to boost his White House bid. Two key hearings on

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Americans are about to learn significant new details on the timing and the substance of the trials of Donald Trump, even as the former president and Republican front-runner steps up his effort to alchemize his unprecedented legal peril to boost his White House bid. Two key hearings

Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads at www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. On Saturday, three African Americans were shot to death in Jacksonville, Florida, by a young White

Opinion by Amira Rose Davis (CNN) — Black women athletes have long been hyper-scrutinized: Their bodies, hair, outfits as well as their celebrations, emotions and even their activism are not merely picked apart on social media and in the press, but they sometimes have been disciplined by the very leagues, federations and governing bodies for which they play. Perhaps that is why their

Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — In his 1976 campaign, President Gerald Ford employed a “Rose Garden” strategy, hiding behind the power of the presidency rather than duking it out with Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail. In 2020, as the pandemic raged, “Joe Biden spent months of his presidential campaign safely

CNN Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — In his 1976 campaign, President Gerald Ford employed a “Rose Garden” strategy, hiding behind the power of the presidency rather than duking it out with Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail. In 2020, as the pandemic raged, “Joe Biden spent months of his presidential campaign

Analysis by Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — After a remarkable summer of robust consumer spending and financial-market resilience, the US economy is widely expected to slow in the coming months as the Federal Reserve continues its historic inflation fight. Investors and economists are bullish that consumer spending, the US economy’s main engine, won’t

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Polls show Donald Trump leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his nearest rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, by about 40 points. You might think this would cause the former president’s GOP rivals to attack him in an attempt to eat into that support, which stands at north

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — In Guy Nattiv’s new feature film “Golda,” which arrived in theaters Friday, Helen Mirren plays Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the crisis of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Mirren is not Jewish, and she wears heavy makeup to look like the unglamorous, chain-smoking politician. Accordingly, the movie is inevitably

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The exhausting view of this bizarre week – with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next – is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The exhausting view of this bizarre week – with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next – is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously unbelievable