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Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — It wasn’t that long ago that candidates vying for the White House tried to win voters over with their plans to reduce the budget deficit, or, better yet, leave the country with no deficit at all. But now, as the dangers of a widening deficit and

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors say New York City Mayor Eric Adams engaged in a “long-running conspiracy,” accepting luxury travel and gifts from foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official. Adams, who’s been indicted on five federal public corruption charges, has denied wrongdoing and says he is being

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Dare I say it but: We may have finally vanquished the vibecession. Hear me out. No one likes being told the economy is good when their own personal financial situation is rocky. So I won’t tell you everything’s great. But there are, for the first time

Analysis by Kara Alaimo, CNN (CNN) — One of the increased dangers kids could face on social media this week comes from an unexpected source: their parents. On National Daughters Day on Wednesday, many parents will share pictures of their children on their social media feeds. Moms and dads may do the same on National

Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN Liverpool, England (CNN) — Three months after a historic election victory, it felt like the downpour at the Labour Party’s conference would never end. Lawmakers and officials in Britain’s new governing party have been trudging through a massive conference center in Liverpool, northwest England since Sunday in sodden suits, a

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The Kelly Ortberg era at Boeing has been marked by something resembling hope — a decidedly faint flicker of optimism that the too-big-to-fail company might get back to making super safe planes and providing good jobs to the tens of thousands of workers needed to build

Analysis by Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — Since French President Emmanuel Macron’s explosive gamble to dissolve parliament before the summer, rumors have swirled over how the newly divided National Assembly would be represented in the administration. Finally, Macron has revealed his cabinet – led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier marking a shift to the right and leaving left-leaning politicians out in

Analysis by Allison Morrow and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — A federal judge sentenced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend to two years in prison, citing her extensive cooperation with prosecutors that led to the conviction of the former face of the cryptocurrency industry in one of the largest financial frauds in US

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump had an apocalyptic warning for a group of farmers in swing state Pennsylvania: If he loses the election, “You won’t have a farm very long.” Trump spoke Monday at an event highlighting his vow to protect rural Americans from the perceived predatory power of China, at

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump had an apocalyptic warning for a group of farmers in swing state Pennsylvania: If he loses the election, “You won’t have a farm very long.” Trump spoke Monday at an event highlighting his vow to protect rural Americans from the perceived predatory power of China,

Analysis by Juliana Liu and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s economic slowdown isn’t an abstract concept for Zheng Jiewen, 23, who works full time at an ad agency in the southern megacity of Guangzhou. Mainly a print model, Zheng used to rake in 30,000 yuan ($4,230) a month when she began working

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Wars of peace are rarely successful. They are normally of choice: pre-emptively attacking to neutralize a perceived threat. Israel and Hezbollah have been stuck in the tit-for-tat horror of escalation chicken for nearly a year. But over the past week Israel has clearly decided to massively amplify

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — So we finally got a rate cut — and a supersized one at that. After the move was announced Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said officials made that decision to keep the US economy in its current “good shape.” Will that pan out? Only time

Analysis By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut last week has given prospective homebuyers something to celebrate: lower borrowing costs. The half-percentage-point cut took rates off a 23-year high, where they’d been for more than a year, and the central bank signaled that more cuts could be on the way.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White House

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential election continues to be the closest of the century. In fact, it is the closest race for the White House in the past 60 years. Polling since the September 10 debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shows that while the vice president seems to

Analysis by Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike reduces a nine-story apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburb to a large mound of rubble. A man covered in dust flails lifelessly in the arms of a rescuer. A corpse in a body bag is whizzed past parked ambulances on the back of