Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is an FT contributing editor Sir Keir Starmer imagined himself a domestic policy prime minister. The mission was to revive the economy and refurbish the public realm. Nearly five months after
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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. The south terminal of London’s Gatwick airport has been evacuated following the discovery of a suspected banned item. The British Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit was deployed on Friday morning after the item was found
Ukraine’s Air Force says Russia has used an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in an attack this morning on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The missile was reportedly launched from Russia’s Astrakhan region near the Caspian Sea, part of a wave of missile attacks overnight that killed at least three people and wounded
A popular prescription anxiety drug is being recalled nationwide for a “possibly life-threatening” mistake on the carton. The Pennsylvania-based drug maker Endo announced this week that it is expanding its recall of clonazepam tablets because some cartons bear the incorrect drug strength and wrong drug code. The new recall affects 16 lots of Clonazepam Orally
Three notorious kleptocrats — including a Ukrainian oligarch wanted in the US — were sanctioned by the British government on Thursday in a bid to tackle dirty money flowing through the UK, officials said. Dmytro Firtash, a puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Isabel dos Santos of Angola and Latvia’s Aivars Lembergs — along with some
ChatGPT-creator OpenAI has recently considered developing a web browser that would combine with its chatbot, the Information reported Thursday, and has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features. OpenAI has spoken about the search product with website and app developers such as Conde Nast, Redfin, Eventbrite and Priceline, the report said, citing people who have seen
Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration. It has more than doubled in value this year and is up about 45% in the two weeks since Trump’s sweeping election
Jeff Bezos is pushing back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election. “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The boss of Jaguar has defended its “bold” rebranding after a backlash to a new corporate logo and a promotional video that did not feature cars, saying its message had been lost in “a blaze
Jeff Bezos is pushing back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election. “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X in
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Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration. It has more than doubled in value this year and is up about 45% in the two weeks since Trump’s sweeping election
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close Video Trump nominates Pam Bondi for US attorney general Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier has the latest on the Trump transition team on ‘Special Report.’ President-elect Trump announced Thursday evening that he’s nominating former attorney general of Florida Pam Bondi as the next attorney general of the United States. Trump’s latest Cabinet
Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration. It has more than doubled in value this year and is up about 45% in the two weeks since Trump’s sweeping election
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK business activity slumped to a 13-month low in November, as companies gave a “thumbs down” to policies announced in the Budget, according to a closely watched survey. The S&P Global flash UK PMI composite
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Northvolt’s chief executive has resigned a day after Europe’s big battery hope filed for bankruptcy in the US. Peter Carlsson took responsibility for the dramatic collapse during a town-hall meeting with employees on Friday morning,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Winter is coming and the mood among parts suppliers to Nissan’s car plant in Sunderland is troubled. When I met some last week near the UK’s largest automotive factory, they were grappling with the changes
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israelis across the political divide lashed out at the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a rare display of unity in the politically polarised country. The warrants
As he squeezes his way through the throng that has packed the entrance of Il Pasticcio with polite smiles and softly spoken apologies, I’m struck by how unlikely a figure António Costa cuts as the man the EU will rely on to face off against US president-elect Donald Trump. Yet the Portuguese socialist, child of