Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldIn 2002, researchers looked at American social trends and found an “emerging Democratic majority”. The party has lost as many presidential elections since then as it has won. In 2019,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Western and Arab diplomats have condemned comments by Israel’s far-right finance minister suggesting that the country will look to annex the occupied West Bank next year in the wake of Donald Trump’s…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldBitcoin hit a fresh record, the US dollar rose to a four-month high and Tesla shares jumped, as investors raised bets on the big winners from Donald Trump’s US presidential…

Struck by cancer in his early 30s, Cláudio found solace in a pastime that has hooked millions of his fellow Brazilians: online gambling.Punts on football results were “just a bit of fun” at first, but following his diagnosis a few years ago the wagers grew bigger. As his losses racked…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Paraguay’s conservative president Santiago Peña faces pressure from investors and diplomats to veto a contentious law backed by allies of the country’s most powerful man, who helped propel Peña himself to power.The…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Five people were taken to hospital and 62 detained in Amsterdam after what authorities called an outburst of antisemitic violence towards fans of a Tel Aviv football club following clashes with pro-Palestinian…

Voting has begun in the US presidential election after Kamala Harris and Donald Trump raced across key battleground states in the final hours of what polls suggest is one of the closest contests in modern history.Polls opened at 6am on Tuesday morning in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New York,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Quincy Jones, the US musician, media mogul and producer of some of the world’s top-selling albums including Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Bad and Off the Wall, has died aged 91.His publicist, Arnold Robinson,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Indian conglomerate Adani Group has begun to curb electricity supplies to Bangladesh and threatened to completely shut down power exports as the new government in Dhaka struggles with a backlog of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Kemi Badenoch has been elected the new Conservative leader, with a vow to reset the party’s thinking and politics after its catastrophic election defeat this summer.The former business secretary won 57 per…