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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How America First will transform the world in 2025

    In different ways, the US, Russia and China have all become revisionist powers that are seeking radical change to the status quo

    US President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Biden rushes to issue cleantech loans in bid to secure legacy

    Industry fears Republican administration could undo $43bn of commitments made by Biden White House

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  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
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    What to expect in 2025

    After the turbulence of 2024, what are the prospects for a peaceful new year?

  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Biden and Democrats seal judicial confirmation push to beat Trump’s tally

    Wave of appointments attempts to balance rightward swing on the federal bench with a diverse range of candidates

    A mobile billboard truck sponsored by Demand Justice demanding that the Senate confirm more federal judges is seen in front of the US Capitol Building on December 12 2024
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    News in-depthCanada
    Could Trump heal Canada’s ailing economy?

    Economists say a jolt from the south could shock the country out of its torpor

    A montage of Donald Trump, a Canadian maple leaf and lines from a chart
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    The migrants who face becoming political pawns again

    Many of those bussed in by the Texas governor have been absorbed by Chicago but could now have their lives upturned again

    Venezuelan migrants as they wait for a ride-share at the 1st District police station in Chicago
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    US financial regulation
    New York vows to ‘fill the gaps’ left by Trump’s regulation rollback

    Head of state’s powerful financial regulator could seek new powers to scrutinise banks and crypto groups

    Adrienne Harris
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Nippon Steel
    Nippon’s bid for US Steel in Biden’s hands after deadlock on panel vetting deal

    President has already voiced opposition to Japanese company’s takeover plan

    Aerial view of the US Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Pennsylvania, with large industrial buildings and smokestacks emitting steam
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Semiconductors
    US launches probe into Chinese semiconductor industry

    Investigation comes just weeks before Biden administration hands over to president-elect Donald Trump

    An employee in protective clothing examines a semiconductor wafer in a clean room at a semiconductor manufacturing enterprise in Fuzhou, China.
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Matt Gaetz
    Matt Gaetz accused of paying for sex and using drugs by US congressional panel

    Explosive report alleges Donald Trump’s former nominee for attorney-general also had sex with an underage girl

    Matt Gaetz
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Eswar Prasad
    The ironies of Trump’s tantrums about the dollar

    His policies would cement the US currency’s dominance while undercutting the institutional framework that is its bedrock

    President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance,
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    InterviewJonathan Kanter
    DoJ’s Kanter does not see a ‘complete U-turn on antitrust’ under Trump

    Top Biden enforcer predicts public demand will keep his successor from completely abandoning his tough approach

    Jonathan Kanter
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Trump names critic of Fed chair Powell to top economic job

    President-elect also taps billionaire Cerberus founder Stephen Feinberg for deputy defence secretary

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Global trade
    Trump and Panama trade blows over control of canal

    President-elect says he would demand vital waterway be ‘returned’ to US if it is not operated to his liking

    Aerial view of a cargo ship traversing the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’

    Swift exit would remove global health body’s main source of funds and damage its ability to tackle emergencies

    Donald Trump with Robert F Kennedy Jr
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    Trump and the power of Mar-a-Lago

    The former property developer well understands how buildings and spaces can be used effectively as propaganda

    An illustration of a white silhouette of Trump’s head wearing a laurel wreath on a classical column, set against an orange background
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    US Senate votes through last-gasp bill to keep government open

    Funding measure gets bipartisan backing after days of bickering on Capitol Hill

    The US Capitol in Washington
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    US to remove $10mn bounty for Syria’s Islamist rebel leader

    Measure comes after American officials meet Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in Damascus

  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
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    Swamp Notes: Listener mailbag, the election and 2025

    FT columnists answer your questions about the US election and a second Donald Trump term.

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Ukraine’s waiting game for Trump

    Kyiv and its European allies believe they have a chance to shape the incoming president’s plan to end the war. But they are divided over what to propose

    People walk between buildings badly damaged by a Russian missile strike i Kyiv
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    ExplainerUS government shutdown
    What happens if the US government shuts down?

    More congressional chaos has sparked fears of another federal funding crisis

    Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance at an American football game in Maryland last weekend
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US foreign policy
    Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told

    US president-elect’s closest foreign policy aides indicate he will continue arming Ukraine while pursuing end to war

    Donald Trump meets Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    News in-depthLuxury goods
    ‘Big man to big man’: how the luxury industry is preparing for Trump

    US is biggest market for sector which exports vast majority of products from France and Italy

    Donald Trump, Bernard Arnault, Louis Vuitton logo and LVMH
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Are ‘national security Republicans’ prepping for a Trump-sized fight? Premium content

    Mitch McConnell has broken cover. Will others soon follow?

    Then-President Donald Trump listened to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speak about legislation for  coronavirus aid in July 2020
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    A fiscal fight is brewing in the court of Donald Trump

    America’s debt pile and the case for tax cuts will be flashpoints inside the new administration

    An elephant’s foot hovers over a tiny red Lego elephant
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