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 Department of Justice has published thousands of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, partially fulfilling a congressional order — signed by Donald Trump — to release the … Read more
Oil prices rose this week after Donald Trump declared a “total blockade” on US-sanctioned tankers heading to and from Venezuela, escalating a stand-off with the country’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro. The US president said in a Thursday interview with NBC that he would not rule out war with Venezuela, and that more oil tankers would … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The British government has ruled out its own attempt to use about £8bn in frozen Russian assets held by UK banks to aid Ukraine after a similar EU proposal collapsed in the early hours … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If fashionability moves in 30-year cycles, then the image of what was “Swinging London” in the 1960s and the capital of “Cool Britannia” in the 1990s ought to be on another upswing. Instead — through … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Waiting times for Eurostar trains at London St Pancras could fall to as little as 15 minutes under a plan by the station owner to revamp the security and departure zones. London St Pancras Highspeed … 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 The US Department of Justice will release “several hundred thousand” documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, after a months-long pressure campaign to force Donald Trump’s administration to publish government files about the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. My favourite Christmas job involved decking a hall with boughs of holly. It was prickly and it wasn’t quite a hall: it was the kitchen showroom on my local high street. But, at 17, it … Read more
Vladimir Putin has said Russia wants its most hardline demands to form the basis for any peace talks with Ukraine and expressed confidence his forces will keep advancing on the battlefield nearly four years into his invasion. Putin’s comments, made in a marathon press conference on Friday, indicated the Russian president is not interested in … Read more
With hedge fund founders peppering the Forbes list of billionaires, top traders getting paid $100mn, and even interns being offered $35k a month, you can maybe see why it’s become a common complaint that hedge funds suck talent away from the rest of the economy. But money, if you believe the hype, is a neutral … Read more
There’s a rich and long tradition of public discourse here in the UK known as “conversations with cabbies”. Taxi drivers, especially London ones, are renowned for their ability to combine blunt opinion with a kind of cosmic rumination. “Whenever I hop into a cab and they say ‘what do you do?’ and I say ‘I’m … Read more