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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has been banned from making disparaging statements about potential witnesses, jurors or prosecutors in his upcoming “hush money” trial, after a judge ruled the former US president’s posts could torpedo the case. The
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New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund has been fully funded for another five years under legislation signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday. The move provides billions of dollars to modernize and maintain the state’s transportation infrastructure. The law also provides additional capital funding to NJ TRANSIT to support local and county projects. “New Jersey sits
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Are we witnessing the return of fascism? Is Donald Trump, to take the most important contemporary example, a fascist? Is France’s Marine Le Pen? Or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán? The answer depends on what one means by “fascism”. But what we are now seeing is not just authoritarianism. It is authoritarianism with fascistic characteristics. We must
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S&P Global Ratings affirmed its A-minus underlying rating and negative outlook for Texas-based IDEA Public Schools, while warning of potential governance risk associated with the state’s appointment of conservators that could lead to a downgrade. Under a settlement agreement announced earlier this month with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), two conservators will oversee and direct
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once again, Donald Trump is defying the establishment. The blank cheque merger phenomenon that swept US capital markets during the pandemic has largely abated. Cash shell companies brought a series of immature businesses to public
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Less than a year after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan following the US’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal, President Joe Biden vowed the country that once harboured Osama bin Laden would “never again . . . become a terrorist safe haven”. Yet a surge in international terrorist threats linked to Afghanistan is raising alarm among governments that the country that
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S&P Global Ratings on Monday raised New Hampshire’s $661.5 million of outstanding general obligation bonds to AA-plus from AA. S&P also raised the state’s $200 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan with the U.S. Department of Transportation. The New Hampshire State House in Concord. S&P Global Ratings on Monday raised New Hampshire’s
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Stadium financing, a cap on local lease revenue bonds, and an effort to preserve the state’s largest coal-fired power plant were some of the measures signed last week by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. The Republican-controlled legislature ended its session March 1, passing a $29.4 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, as
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Not enough is said about the other Donald T. Having led Poland between 2007 and 2014, Donald Tusk can take some credit as his nation approaches western European standards of living. Now in his second stint,
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