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Analysis by David Goldman, Matt Egan and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary pick stands in stark contrast to some of the more controversial and questionable Cabinet picks he’s announced so far. Scott Bessent won’t freak out Wall Street, the industry he’s set to oversee. Treasury secretary is a serious job

Analysis by Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In the summer of 2018, when former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Beijing, the Chinese economy was riding high. There was even talk it could soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest. Now, with Trump months away from retaking office, what

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — The startling revelation this week that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s journeyed to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump prompted a question that many members of the media are quietly asking: just how worried should journalists be? More specifically, and more practically, what

Analysis by CNN’s Chief International Security Editor Nick Paton Walsh (CNN) — It began with a peace move nobody wanted and ended with an experimental missile strike so rare in war Moscow gave a 30-minute heads-up to Washington. The past seven days have fundamentally changed Ukraine’s long conflict, and at a breakneck pace ahead of

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Marc Rowan, a contender for what is arguably the most important economic job in the US government, is the CEO of Apollo Global Management, a behemoth in private equity, an industry notorious for its cutthroat, profit-at-all-costs standards. The 62-year-old executive’s ascent to Donald Trump’s Cabinet could,

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf and Leinz Vales, CNN (CNN) — When we asked CNN readers for their questions about the incoming Trump 2.0 administration, we got a lot of nervous and scared feedback. People have legitimate worries about President-elect Donald Trump’s promises of mass deportation, how his pledges to cut taxes will affect Social

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — For Donald Trump, every defeat is just the catalyst for his next battle. No sooner had the president-elect suffered his first big reversal since winning reelection – when his scandal-tainted pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, withdrew Thursday after days of steadily worsening scrutiny over alleged sexual misconduct

Analysis by Kara Alaimo, CNN (CNN) — If you’re thinking of marching into your parent-teacher conference with a laundry list of complaints, think twice. It’s often possible to address issues students are having without arguing with your child’s teacher or assigning blame, even when the issues are contentious. After her son’s teacher falsely accused him

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden bragged about picking the most diverse Cabinet in history, one that he said “looks like America,” President-elect Donald Trump is looking for TV experience. While Trump’s picks so far mostly lack in racial or gender diversity – there are a handful of

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden bragged about picking the most diverse Cabinet in history, one that he said “looks like America,” President-elect Donald Trump is looking for TV experience. While Trump’s picks so far mostly lack in racial or gender diversity – there are a handful of women

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — It is a very specific and high-profile warning, so you would expect the information behind it to have been quite precise. The US Embassy in Kyiv has not closed since it relocated during the opening months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But on

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Comcast just jump-started a new season of major change across the television industry. And no one quite knows what will happen next. On Wednesday morning, the media giant confirmed that it is spinning off most of its cable channels, including MSNBC and CNBC, into a separate

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO who’s been tapped to run the US Commerce Department, has in recent years become a prominent cheerleader for Tether, the company behind one of the world’s biggest crypto assets. But even by the standards of crypto — an alternative financial

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — All eyes should have been on the sky over a launchpad in Texas on Tuesday as the world’s largest rocket streaked thunderously toward space. But the orbit currently getting the most attention is not in the heavens — it’s the increasingly intimate one back on Earth uniting the

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s been two years since OpenAI bestowed ChatGPT upon the world and set off a kind of gold rush for artificial intelligence. Billions of dollars are pouring into AI-focused and AI-adjacent companies on the promise that the technology is going to accelerate (or possibly obliterate) every

Analysis by Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump is returning to the White House without many of the guardrails of his first term. Many Never-Trump Republicans in Congress have converted or been defeated. Former economic adviser Gary Cohn and other anti-tariff voices are not likely to be welcome in the new Trump

Analysis by Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Donald Trump is poised to enter the White House for the second time. His agenda will include overseeing the development of artificial intelligence, potentially the most powerful technology of our time. The president-elect has promised to “slash excess regulations” and tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk, another critic

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is creating a show of force that will help define his new term as he tries to leverage Matt Gaetz into the attorney general’s office. The president-elect has been calling senators to press them to confirm his pick early next year, CNN reported Monday —

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is creating a show of force that will help define his new term as he tries to leverage Matt Gaetz into the attorney general’s office. The president-elect has been calling senators to press them to confirm his pick early next year, CNN reported Monday — even

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks are unique for many reasons. One thing that makes several of them stand out is that drug use from their recent or distant past is not a major issue, is overshadowed by other issues or is not currently raising a furor in