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 said Iran was negotiating “seriously” with the US over its nuclear programme as the president weighs military options after deploying additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East. “I hope … Read more
A UAE-backed investment vehicle quietly agreed to buy nearly half of World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency startup linked to President Donald Trump, just days before he returned to the White House, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Aryam Investment 1, an Abu Dhabi entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Xi Jinping has called for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency, in some of his clearest comments on his ambitions for China’s currency as Beijing seeks to play a greater role in the … Read more
2025 was an exciting year in the music world, with dynamic new releases from the likes of Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lorde, Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae, and Olivia Dean climbing the charts and starting conversations. But which acts are in contention for hardware on the industry’s biggest night? Here, find everything you need … Read more
Trump picked Kevin Warsh for Fed chair, the first big market change may be the way the Fed talks When Donald Trump says Jerome Powell “got it wrong,” he usually means one thing: rates should have come down faster. Powell, for all the heat he takes, has still been a fairly standard Fed chair. He … Read more
Step Finance, a decentralized finance portfolio tracker on Solana, has disclosed a security breach that led to the compromise of several treasury wallets, triggering a sharp sell-off in its native token. “Earlier today several of our treasury wallets were compromised by a sophisticated actor during APAC hours. This was an attack facilitated through a well … Read more
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has ramped up his social media praise for US president Donald Trump while taking aim at former president Joe Biden, just days after Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, was released from federal custody. Since Bankman-Fried’s February 2025 interview with the New York Sun and March appearance with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia is struggling to reduce its dependence on critical foreign technologies after western sanctions severed Moscow from global supply chains, according to an internal government tally seen by the FT. The assessment, compiled by the … Read more
January was such a long year that it has already brought us five fresh European unicorns: from Belgium to Ukraine, several tech startups raised funding at valuations above the symbolic $1 billion threshold. But before we take a closer look at who joined the club, two caveats. First: This count includes startups that may be … Read more
Catherine O’Hara, a two-time Saturday Night Live host and a (very brief) former cast member, was remembered by NBC’s late-night program tonight, a day after the Emmy winner died at the age of 71. A card in O’Hara’s memory from her time on the show ran just before the curtain call at the end of … Read more