President Joe Biden is holding up a shipment of 3,500 guided bombs to Israel after U.S.-backed negotiations for a ceasefire and an exchange of captives with Gaza broke down. It’s the most significant exercise of U.S. leverage over Israel in a long timeand comes after Biden spent months resisting the idea of any limits on
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Is the U.S. toast? Reports of America’s death have been greatly exaggerated for decades. But every human endeavor does, eventually, come to an end. Now RAND, the granddaddy of think tanks, has a report out that takes for granted the decline of the United States and asks if it can be returned to its former
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Standard Digital Weekend Print + Standard Digital wasnow 89 € per month Billed Quarterly at 265 €. Complete digital access plus the FT newspaper delivered Monday-Saturday. What’s included Global news & analysis Expert opinion FT App on Android & iOS FT Edit app FirstFT: the day’s biggest stories 20+ curated newsletters Follow topics & set
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Standard Digital Weekend Print + Standard Digital wasnow 89 € per month Billed Quarterly at 265 €. Complete digital access plus the FT newspaper delivered Monday-Saturday. What’s included Global news & analysis Expert opinion FT App on Android & iOS FT Edit app FirstFT: the day’s biggest stories 20+ curated newsletters Follow topics & set
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Standard Digital Weekend Print + Standard Digital wasnow 89 € per month Billed Quarterly at 265 €. Complete digital access plus the FT newspaper delivered Monday-Saturday. What’s included Global news & analysis Expert opinion FT App on Android & iOS FT Edit app FirstFT: the day’s biggest stories 20+ curated newsletters Follow topics & set
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s former autocratic president, sold a London mansion for £34.7mn to a property investment firm founded by an ex-Deutsche Bank executive.  Forty-one Upper Grosvenor Street, a large Edwardian townhouse located
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Rishi Sunak wants to put Britain’s defence industry on a “war footing”. The UK prime minister’s pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP in response to the war in Ukraine and other threats is welcome news for companies like BAE Systems and the legion of other organisations that make up Europe’s
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Among west Texas oilmen, the lesser prairie-chicken is a subject that quickly raises hackles.  The unusual-looking animal famed for its elaborate mating dance roams the scrubland of the vast Permian Basin — the epicentre of US oil production — and was listed as endangered last year. Its new status now restricts where, when and how
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Municipal triple-A yield curves were little changed Wednesday as the primary market demanded investor attention and were well received. U.S. Treasuries were weaker, and equities ended mixed. Several large new-issues priced led by $1.018 billion of the University of Chicago revenue bonds from the Illinois Finance Authority (Aa2/AA-/AA+/), with yields bumped seven to 15 basis
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The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by the state’s Democratic leaders that would block a sweeping anti-tax measure from November’s ballot. The initiative, called the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (TPA), would amend the California constitutional rules governing how the state and local governments can impose taxes, fees and
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