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Analysis by Nadeen Ebrahim and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel has yet to agree how to respond to the Iranian attack over the weekend that saw more than 300 projectiles fired at its territory in the first direct military confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the Jewish state. Israel must balance international pressure to

Analysis by Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend has ratcheted up tensions in the oil-rich Middle East yet again, threatening to send fuel prices skyward if the conflict escalates and disrupts global supplies. Iran launched scores of missiles toward Israel late Saturday in retaliation for a suspected

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s Tax Day in the United States. Some Americans are scrambling to get their documents in on time, while others are figuring out how to pay what they owe or enjoying a return of cash from the IRS. Either way, it’s fair to say that filing

Opinion by Daniel R. DePetris (CNN) — The subject of finally concluding America’s counter-ISIS mission in Iraq has been the plot of ongoing deliberations between Washington and Baghdad for the last three years. Monday’s White House meeting between President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani must be the moment that the story is

Opinion by Jeffrey Abramson (CNN) — On Monday, jury selection for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president begins in Manhattan. Former President Donald Trump, who has previously been found liable in civil trials, is now set to face charges that could land him in prison. Trump is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The United States will cross a historic threshold on Monday when for the first time a former president goes on criminal trial in a case laced with fateful significance because Donald Trump could be back in the Oval Office next year. When the presumptive GOP nominee walks into

Opinion by Peter Bergen (CNN) — On the surface, Iran’s Saturday missile and drone attack on Israel was a response to the Israelis’ airstrike on an Iranian consulate building in Damascus two weeks ago that killed at least seven officials, including commanders of the nation’s Revolutionary Guards. Yet it also was an outgrowth of the enmity between

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

Analysis by Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — A decades-long shadow war burst out into the open overnight as Iranian drones and missiles lit up the night sky in Israel and the occupied West Bank. Tehran’s operation was highly choreographed, apparently designed to minimize casualties while maximizing spectacle. This was a complex mission. Over

Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr, CNN (CNN) — “I’m not anyone more / than anyone else. / I did my job, then / looked into / their eyes. / What had I / become?” So reads “Sixth Juror,” one of a cycle of 13 short poems titled “Twelve Chairs” (one poem each for 12 jurors

CNN Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr, CNN (CNN) — “I’m not anyone more / than anyone else. / I did my job, then / looked into / their eyes. / What had I / become?” So reads “Sixth Juror,” one of a cycle of 13 short poems titled “Twelve Chairs” (one poem each for 12

Analysis by Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans haven’t been stashing money into their savings accounts like they used to, according to government statistics. That’s part of the reason why consumer spending has been so robust since the economy ascended from pandemic depths, despite high inflation and elevated interest rates. But when saving slows

Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more than

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — When CNN asked for your questions about former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial – for his role in hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with him – we got a flood of input. Not all of it

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — When CNN asked for your questions about former President Donald Trump’s upcoming first criminal trial – for his role in hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with him – we got a flood of input. Not all

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan for his alleged role in a hush money scheme to silence his alleged mistresses before the 2016 election. It will be historic; no former US president has ever faced criminal prosecution. It will be salacious; the alleged mistresses

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — “Much of the American artistic and cultural work about the Vietnam War, even as it engages in anti-American criticism, places Americans firmly and crudely at the story’s center,” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his 2016 study, “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.” You could expand this dictum to

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy