Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Israel continued to pound Lebanon with a fierce wave of air strikes overnight, as Israeli forces stepped up their air campaign against Hizbollah, hitting what they said were targets linked to the…

Top aides to Kamala Harris are heading into the final month of the 2024 presidential race still wrestling with how much distance she can credibly claim from Joe Biden as she looks for more ways to weave in breaks with him on the campaign trail. But she keeps getting pulled back to…

Attitudes about the obligation to provide care for an aging parent in failing health vary. In some families, there is an unspoken expectation that it is the daughter’s job to provide this care, despite the fact that there is no legal obligation for any particular person to do so. Rarely…

A federal judge on Wednesday set back Republican efforts to thwart President Biden’s student loan bailout, allowing the government to proceed with his debt cancellation plan weeks before the November election.  U.S. District Judge Randal Hall of Augusta removed Georgia from a lawsuit brought by seven Republican-led states against the…

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke directly to Elon Musk Friday on the billionaire’s X platform, part of an effort to counter false conspiracies about federal disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Helene that Musk spread on X, where his follower count stands over 200 million.”No one is shutting down the…

When Todd Graves and Craig Silvey came up with the idea for a restaurant in southern Louisiana that only sold chicken fingers, they probably didn’t expect to get the lowest grade in a startup-pitching assignment for Silvey’s LSU undergraduate business class — or to get rejected for bank loans when…

The deal reached Thursday evening that ended a strike by 50,000 port workers has a lot of winners and few if any losers. The deal only covers wages, not other contract provisions. But the union agreed to return to work Friday after a three-day stoppage while those other details, including…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Israel continued to bombard Beirut’s suburbs overnight and struck a mosque in southern Lebanon as its forces battled Hizbollah fighters on the ground in the border region. Israeli warplanes also launched a…

Donald Trump is returning Saturday to the Pennsylvania venue where he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in July, holding a high-profile rally in what his allies are billing as a key moment as the 2024 race for the White House enters its final month. The former president described this weekend’s trip to…