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Opinion by Eric Klein and Jeremi Suri (CNN) — Whether or not former President Donald Trump is convicted for the recent charges of conspiracy and obstruction filed in Washington, DC, there will be Americans who condemn the verdict. That is not unprecedented or unexpected. Trump has rejected the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith as politically motivated and has

Opinion by Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers (CNN) — Jurors have decided that the man convicted in the mass shooting five years ago at the Pittsburgh synagogue I lead should be put to death. The decision, marks the final chapter of an emotional, months-long trial, that should bring closure to members of my congregation and two

Opinion by Michael Gerhardt (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal troubles got dramatically worse Tuesday, when he was indicted on criminal charges by a federal grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump has now been

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Fitch Ratings downgraded US long-term debt late on Tuesday from AAA to AA+, citing this spring’s debt ceiling standoff as a major reason. That’s a huge blow to the US. The global financial system relies on the promise that the US government will always pay back

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — “The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump” instantly became one of the most consequential documents in American history. Tuesday’s 45-page indictment took the country to an unprecedented, profound and even tragic place. For the first time, America is set to put on trial a former president

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — It’s come full circle. Donald Trump’s dangerous lies about the 2020 election, which saturated right-wing media after the presidential contest and led to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, have finally put the disgraced former president in serious legal jeopardy. With the indictment of Trump on

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — American women have a problem with booze. A new study from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that alcohol-related deaths are rising generally, but are rising more quickly among women than among men. According to this research, from 2018 to 2020, women saw a 14.7% increase in alcohol-related

CNN Analysis by Ronald Brownstein (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal jeopardy is raising a stark political question: can anything break the sustained electoral stalemate that has left the country divided almost exactly in half between the Republican and Democratic coalitions? Trump was indicted for a third time on Tuesday and is facing

Opinion by Reverend Dr. Russell J. Levenson, Jr. (CNN) — There’s a tragic scene in Thomas Hardy’s classic work “Far from the Madding Crowd,” and we see something very much like it being played out, right before our eyes, by the leadership of the Republican Party. In the novel, sheep farmer Gabriel Oak has faced

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — US markets just wrapped up a winning July, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both notching their fifth positive month in a row. But August is here, and that often means trouble for markets. The last time the S&P 500 was on a winning streak this

Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Less than two years ago, Britain was championing itself as a global leader in the fight against the climate crisis. At the pivotal COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson rallied world leaders to find agreement on a historic resolution acknowledging the role of fossil

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal jeopardy is raising a stark political question: can anything break the sustained electoral stalemate that has left the country divided almost exactly in half between the Republican and Democratic coalitions? Trump was indicted for a third time on Tuesday and is facing a

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Chariton, Iowa (CNN) — It was not the kind of place you’d typically find Donald Trump – and that was the point. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit the reset button in a cramped basement under a neighborhood grill in the tiny southern Iowa town of Chariton last week. Under a

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The Fox News audience remains firmly in Donald Trump’s corner. The notion that viewers of the right-wing channel support the disgraced former president is not very surprising, but the sheer extent to which the network’s viewership continues to stand strongly behind the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former president might jolt

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s fortunes seem to be moving in opposing directions. He is burning cash on an expanding, multipronged legal war with fronts in courtrooms up and down the East Coast: New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC. Trials are already scheduled for March in

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s fortunes seem to be moving in opposing directions. He is burning cash on an expanding, multipronged legal war with fronts in courtrooms up and down the East Coast: New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC. Trials are already scheduled for March in Manhattan