
'The Handmaid's Tale' latest season sheds light on Janine
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The new season of "The Handmaid's Tale" will reveal a lot more about Janine.
Before being forced to become a handmaid inside Gilead, Janine, played by Madeline Brewer, was a waitress with a son named Caleb. "I used to be kind of pretty before they turned me into a freak, so everyone can see what happens when you're bad," Janine says in a voiceover in a trailer about her character's journey. "From then on I tried so hard to be good, but then I realized that breaking the rules was the only way forward."
Elon Musk has claimed the Department of Government Efficiency is “the most transparent organization in government ever.” But Merici Vinton, a federal worker who recently left her job at the government information technology office weeks after it was taken over by DOGE, told CNN in an interview she witnessed a “highly secretive” effort operating by “a different set of rules.”

Democrats continued a trend of strong overperformance in off-cycle elections on Tuesday, making double-digit gains on the margin over their 2024 showing in both Florida congressional districts and statewide in Wisconsin. That trend has emerged at least in part because Democrats’ base is increasingly more likely to vote in such elections, but a CNN analysis shows that Tuesday’s results may reflect more than just a deeply engaged base.