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Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Westminster, the beating heart of British politics, is very worried about how safe the UK government’s most important secrets are. Over the weekend, Matt Hancock, now the country’s former health secretary, was forced to resign after images of him kissing a female adviser were published in a newspaper. It isn’t

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — two pillars of the post-Civil War effort to ensure equality for all Americans — would never have become law. Every Democrat in Congress at

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Former President Donald Trump is facing a wall of accountability and truth as new revelations and investigations expose his abuses of power, delusional lies about the election and business conduct to ever greater scrutiny. Just consider what has taken place over the last several days: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on

Opinion by David A. Andelman Last week, Russian forces spied the British destroyer HMS Defender on routine patrol in the Black Sea. Specifically, a part of the Black Sea that’s very sensitive to Russia: inside the territorial waters of Crimea. That’s what Putin calls Russian territory, and much of the world still thinks belongs to

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Now you tell us. He suspected it was all “bullsh*t” all along, says Bill Barr, the former attorney general, clearly trying to rehabilitate his image for the history books by distancing himself from the false notion of voter fraud pushed by former President Donald Trump. The problem for Barr

Analysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows that his base is all for it. Texas Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of Abbott’s border wall effort: 89% support it and only 8% are opposed,

Opinion by Kent Sepkowitz Weeks after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine for adolescents, the United States hit a crucial milestone: More than half of the US population age 12 and older is now fully vaccinated.. While this was a remarkable accomplishment, it was actually the easy part. The next challenge

Opinion by Sonia Pruitt Congress is now in recess, and only has a “framework” for a police reform bill from the Senate. Since early March, there have been negotiations but no decisive action on the Justice in Policing Act (JPA) that bears George Floyd’s name. Floyd died at the knee of Derek Chauvin on May

Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph The man best known for popularizing the term “Black power” always answered the phone with the words, “ready for revolution.” Stokely Carmichael answered the phone this way to acknowledge his role in sacred efforts to build a new society in America and around the world. He defined revolution as transforming

Opinion by Elie Honig William Barr’s image rehabilitation tour has begun. Don’t buy it. Despite Barr’s belated, post-election resistance to former President Donald Trump’s delusional claims of massive voter fraud — which Barr eagerly amplifies in self-aggrandizing fashion in a new interview he granted to The Atlantic — make no mistake: Barr bears as much

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN’s Pamela Brown that he has read the classified version of the US intelligence report on the series of UFO sightings by Navy pilots and others, and that he feels that we may not be alone in this galaxy.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that President Biden is a “man of honor” and “I do take the president at his word.”

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN That Joe Biden’s cherished bipartisan infrastructure plan was nearly destroyed by a few of his own ill-chosen words highlights both the fragility of the deal and his own hopes for a productive domestic presidency. Biden’s extraordinary weekend effort to walk back his own remark on Thursday, interpreted as a threat

Analysis by Stephen Collinson A new generation of US cold warriors just got some powerful validation. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about China in a New York Times interview in Paris, he offered one of the most revealing insights yet into the Biden administration’s foreign policy. Blinken said that France and the US

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan was on the scene at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wellington, Ohio, where he spoke with diehard supporters who remain convinced that Trump won the 2020 election (he didn’t) and claim that Democrats and the FBI are to blame for the Capitol insurrection (they aren’t).

Opinion by Dean Obeidallah It must have been a dream come true for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican got a standing ovation as one of former President Donald Trump’s opening acts on Saturday night at the kick-off of his “revenge” tour in Wellington, Ohio. Yet Greene’s reception from the crowd of rabid Trump

Analysis by Stephen Collinson “China lied and Americans died.” With those words, Elise Stefanik, the number three Republican in the House of Representatives, showed her party’s plan to put the origins of the pandemic at the center of next year’s midterm elections. Republicans are calling on Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to hold

Opinion by Neelu Tummala “I’m sorry I’m late Dr. Tummala,” a patient tells me at the start of a recent clinic appointment. Smiling with what I hope is a look of understanding, I brush off her apology. I have come to know this patient over many years and am well aware that she is apologizing

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Friday evening the US intelligence community released something remarkable: An unclassified report to Congress of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) aka UFOs. Which is a big deal! Especially when you consider that, for decades, the American government totally denied the existence of flying objects that they simply could not

By Richard Galant, CNN In 2008, Brian Sicknick reached out to Sandra Garza on a dating site. She responded quickly and when they decided to date, “he made an odd request,” Garza recalled: Could they meet for breakfast? It “was his favorite meal of the day, particularly blueberry pancakes …” “Brian was very quiet, shy