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Biden has a bridge to reelection – but has to rebuild it first

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:45:07 +0000

(CNN) — Donald Trump’s voters get all the attention. But it’s Joe Biden’s who may decide the general election. A historic rematch for the White House between the ex-president and the current president — which few Americans seem to relish — is coming into view given Trump’s early dominance of the Republican primary process. Ever

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Ukraine’s US lifeline is hanging by a thinning thread

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:30:44 +0000

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grim bet that America and the West will tire of his brutal war before he does is looking better by the day. Nearly seven weeks after US President Joe Biden asked US Congress for $60 billion to top up Kyiv’s arms and ammunition lifeline — along with another $14

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US economy on the brink as time runs low to avert debt default

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Mon, 22 May 2023 13:51:24 +0000

Washington (CNN) — America is heading close to the brink of a self-imposed economic disaster with the Republican-led House refusing to pay the country’s debts unless President Joe Biden agrees on cuts to current and future spending and new curbs on social programs. Unless a compromise to raise the government’s borrowing authority is reached within

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ANALYSIS: How Xi and Putin’s new friendship could test the US

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:25:22 +0000

(CNN) — As two autocrats traded tributes over a feast of quail, venison, Siberian white salmon and pomegranate sorbet, China and Russia seemed to conjure the anti-Western compact the US has long feared. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit this week to his friend, President Vladimir Putin, came at a critical moment of Russia’s quagmire

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ANALYSIS: The US now faces simultaneous showdowns with China and Russia

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:26:12 +0000

(CNN) — Fighting one Cold War was bad enough. Waging two at once would be impossible. Two years into Joe Biden’s presidency, the United States now faces simultaneous diplomatic and national security crises with its 20th century superpower rival Moscow and its top 21st century adversary China. The war in Ukraine, about to reach a blood-soaked

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ANALYSIS: Biden’s dramatic warning to China

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:49:54 +0000

(CNN) — President Joe Biden starkly warned he will protect America against Chinese threats to its sovereignty and singled out President Xi Jinping — a striking escalation of a suspected spy balloon showdown during his State of the Union address. Biden called out Beijing on Tuesday before millions of viewers in the US and around the

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ANALYSIS: Putin’s next escalation could be a direct cyberattack on the US

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:19:50 +0000

(CNN) — The most troubling takeaway from US President Joe Biden’s warning that there is “evolving intelligence” that Russia is exploring options for cyberattacks is that US spy agencies have been spot on so far in predicting Vladimir Putin’s moves. It was always possible that the Russian leader could seek to impose direct reprisals on

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ANALYSIS: Vaccine gap stokes super spreader fears ahead of UN’s first post-COVID meeting

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:59:35 +0000

(CNN) — US fears that this week’s annual world leader jamboree at the United Nations could spark a super spreader event will highlight the stark inequality of global access to COVID-19 vaccines — even as developed nations begin offering booster shots. Scores of presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers are set to ignore an American suggestion

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ANALYSIS: How Biden anchored his first 100 days on two simple principles

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:45:43 +0000

(CNN) — The increasingly radical presidency of Joe Biden was built on a straightforward foundation: putting COVID-19 shots in arms and stimulus checks in the bank. “When I took office, I decided that — it was a fairly basic, simple proposition, and that is I got elected to solve problems,” Biden said at his first official news conference in

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ANALYSIS: Trump lashes out in new bid to tarnish an election he lost

Stephen Collinson, CNN — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:06:10 +0000

(CNN) — President Donald Trump flexed the power of his office Tuesday to tarnish America’s free and fair election, sacking the official who declared the vote the most secure in US history, even as more of his false claims of massive fraud were exposed as baseless in court. The revenge firing, the President’s latest assault

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