The sky is falling at least on Boeing. A second whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances, just two months after another one allegedly shot himself in the head and the attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 other whistleblowers who want the company to clean up its act.
A federal judge blasted Google for its negligent policy that resulted in the deletion of employee chat records as closing arguments wrapped up Friday in a landmark antitrust case that could result in unprecedented changes to the tech giant’s core business. Justice Department attorneys asked Judge Amit Mehta to sanction Google for failing to preserve
New York wine and liquor stores are struggling as their customers dry out from the boozy days of the pandemic — and a pair of state lawmakers has concocted a potentially controversial remedy for the hangover. At the start of the year, New York state Sen. Michelle Hinchey quietly introduced a bill to allow wine
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of the Turkey programme at the Middle East Institute and author of ‘Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria’ President Joe Biden has repeatedly framed the war
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Who is Xi Jinping’s travel agent? If you are making your first trip to Europe in nearly five years, an itinerary that reads France, Serbia, Hungary seems a little eccentric. But the three stops chosen by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Veteran politician John Swinney is poised to become Scotland’s first minister this week after being appointed leader of the Scottish National party. Swinney, who led the party in the early 2000s, is expected to face
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s military to rehearse the use of so-called tactical nuclear weapons in combat, casting the drills as a response to “threats” from French President Emmanuel Macron. The exercises are the Russian president’s latest salvo in a stand-off with the west over his invasion of Ukraine, during which Putin has repeatedly made
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Citi’s exit from the municipal bond market in December 2023, and UBS’s exit from the negotiated underwriting business in October 2023, have inspired many firms, from Piper Sandler to Huntington National Bank, to scoop up talent from the two organizations, seeing an
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military has told tens of thousands of Palestinians to leave the southern Gazan city of Rafah as Israel’s defence minister warned of an imminent military “operation” as talks to free Israeli hostages appeared
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arab nations have begun to swing behind the idea of a multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza and the occupied West Bank, as they scramble to develop a viable postwar plan for the region. The draft
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shareholders in BP are preparing for the company to scale back its climate targets further after a shift in tone from the oil major’s new chief executive. BP is alone among its peers in committing
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of new homes being built in England could fall to roughly half the official target unless the government steps up financial and policy support for new housing, according to a forecast from Savills.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that
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In Falls County, about 30 minutes’ drive from Waco in the heart of Texas, clean energy company Avangrid is building its largest ever solar project. Due to be completed early next year, the True North solar project will have a capacity of 321 megawatts, equivalent to enough energy to provide power for more than 55,000
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finland has successfully tested its ability to run a war economy and has begun storing military equipment outside its national borders as the Nordic country renowned for its high level of preparedness deals with an
A US crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia, according to senior western officials and Russian financiers. Moscow’s trade volumes with key partners such as Turkey and China have slumped in the first quarter of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ArcelorMittal has warned the UK government that one of its main divisions may be forced to leave the country if an application to redevelop a commercial port in south-east England is approved this week. The
Over the course of 48 agonising hours, Rishi Sunak saw his Conservative party crushed in elections across England and Wales, culminating in Andy Street’s agonisingly narrow defeat as Tory mayor of the West Midlands. The dark outlook was summed up by the ConservativeHome activists’ website which said: “These elections have only confirmed that the Conservatives
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK governments expecting to do badly in local elections like to leak disaster scenarios in advance, in hope they can later claim to have done better than expected. In the event, the results for Rishi
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine will look to mount a new counteroffensive in 2025 after receiving a $61bn infusion of US military aid to help it stop Russia from making additional gains this year, Jake Sullivan, the US