Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Europe is “dreaming” if it believes it can defend itself without US backing, Nato’s secretary-general has warned, pushing back against calls in some EU capitals to prepare for a future without Washington’s protection. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Trading 212, one of Europe’s largest investment platforms, sold cryptocurrency-linked products to UK retail investors without permission from the financial watchdog. Traders in the UK have been able to purchase crypto exchange traded notes (ETNs) since … Read more
Sightings of David Miliband, now head of the International Rescue Committee, at Westminster on Monday were a reminder to ambitious Labour politicians of the perils of dithering and missing a political moment. In 2008 the then-foreign secretary was urged by colleagues to run against a weakened Gordon Brown but refused to move; the party crown … Read more
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Treasury department said it was cancelling its contracts with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, as punishment for the leaking of President Donald Trump’s tax returns and the confidential filings of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former heavyweights from the Conservative Party’s moderate wing have launched a new movement to try to drag the party back towards the centre and counter Nigel Farage’s “incredibly damaging” Reform UK. Launched in London on … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world As governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem launched an anti-drug campaign with the tagline: “Meth: We’re on it.” Noem’s message control has not obviously sharpened as Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary. On Saturday, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump is deploying his border tsar to Minnesota amid a growing backlash against his administration’s immigration crackdown after federal agents shot and killed a second person in Minneapolis over the weekend. Trump … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Suella Braverman, the former Conservative home secretary, has defected to Reform UK, becoming the latest high-profile Tory to jump to Nigel Farage’s insurgent populist party. “I believe that a better Britain is possible and because … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nvidia has agreed to invest $2bn into cloud computing provider CoreWeave, in a bid to accelerate the rollout of AI data centres. The two companies said on Monday that they would build more specialised data … Read more