Trump doubles down on big foreign policy bets in end-of-the-year flurry

President Donald Trump is spending the end of the year trying to cash in huge foreign policy bets on which thousands of lives ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Breaking down U.S. strikes on ISIS in Nigeria and the complicated conflict there

President Trump said that he delayed U.S. military strikes in Nigeria until Christmas Day to deliver a message to groups he ...
New York Post

Why Paramount Skydance is tapping Middle Eastern investors in hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Why does Paramount Skydance need the Persian Gulf to finance its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery? It’s a niggling question that hasn’t gone away for Paramount Skydance owners David and Larry Ellison, ...
CNN

Ukraine’s gloves are off in its energy war with Russia. How much can it increase the pressure?

Ukraine said Thursday its long-range drones had struck a major offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea this week, in a previously undisclosed mission that signals a new expansion of its target list ...
CNN

As Trump states Ukraine is losing the war with Russia, officials say the battlefield situation hasn’t changed significantly

Following President Donald Trump’s claim that Ukraine is “losing” the war against Russia’s ongoing invasion and that Moscow now has the “upper hand,” multiple officials told CNN there are no new US or ...
CNN

Trump blames Maduro for migrants, but a war in Venezuela could create millions of refugees

When President Donald Trump has been asked about the reason he’s pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and threatening military action against the country, he consistently blames ...
CNN

The ‘war on drugs’ felt over. Donald Trump restarted it

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...
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War and Peace by Donald Trump

But the event was laden with ironies. For starters, vicious fighting is still raging between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and Congolese soldiers. On top of that, how many peace treaty signings have a warm ...
CNN

Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, sources say

Netflix has submitted the highest bid to date for Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets, according to people familiar with the secretive bidding process. Netflix’s most recent offer, ...
CNN

Did the US commit a war crime in the Caribbean? Here’s what we know

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The US military has killed scores of people — 83 and counting — in unprecedented ...
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Fewer than 10 of these porpoises are left. Can the species be saved?

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
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After ‘progress’ in talks to end Ukraine war, US diplomacy faces Kremlin test

Inside the Witkoff Group’s exclusive Shell Bay private members club in South Florida, the delegations from Washington and Kyiv faced each other for “tough but very constructive” negotiations over ...