Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Mexican authorities have killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, striking the country’s biggest blow against organised crime in a decade as the US piles pressure on Mexico to act against … 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 writer is the former deputy prime minister of Canada The Supreme Court’s tariffs decision on Friday gives the US and its allies the chance for a reset. “Liberation day” tariffs imposed in … 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 is once again going where no rich country has gone before. Earlier this month, the White House topped off a year of regulatory rollbacks around climate change by repealing the “endangerment … Read more
Iran agreed a secret €500mn arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in its most significant effort to rebuild air defences shattered during last year’s war with Israel. The agreement, signed in Moscow in December, commits Russia to deliver 500 man-portable “Verba” launch units and 2,500 “9M336” missiles over three years, … 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 has significantly increased the number of fighter aircraft at bases in Jordan and Saudi Arabia this month, as it assembles tremendous air power in the Middle East for a potential weeks-long … Read more
Donald Trump’s new 15 per cent global tariff will most greatly benefit countries he has singled out for heavy criticism, including China and Brazil, data analysis shows. An examination of the new regime by independent trade monitoring body Global Trade Alert found that Brazil will enjoy the biggest reduction in average tariff rates — falling … 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 Secret Service has shot and killed a man who breached the secure perimeter around President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump and wife Melania were in Washington at … Read more
This article is an on-site version of the Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters The brain has an estimated processing power of one exaflop — one billion-billion calculations per second — … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. There was a time, about six months ago by my count, when you could join an online meeting at work without having to wonder if it was being recorded or not. It was such … Read more
After a year of acrimony between the US and South Africa, Donald Trump’s ambassador-designate arrived in Pretoria this month: a rightwing activist who in the 1980s opposed Washington working with the African National Congress to end apartheid. Leo Brent Bozell III, the 70-year-old scion of a prominent conservative family, has spent his career campaigning against … Read more