Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for freeThe stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White HouseDonald Trump has filed a legal complaint against the UK’s ruling Labour party, alleging “illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference” to help Kamala Harris in the US presidential election.…

Deaf since birth, Paul Meyer has used human interpreters and captioners to communicate with colleagues during his almost three-decade career in HR and technical recruiting.But when companies started relying more on video conferencing during the pandemic, he noticed a worrying trend. As meetings moved online, companies started to regularly use…

Ranch hand David Diener is looking forward to election season being over and an end to the deluge of political advertisements that has washed across Montana, a crucial battleground for control of the US Senate.“I am sick to death of hearing them for the past year,” said Diener, a 34-year-old…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Big Tech is going nuclear. In the past week, Amazon agreed with utilities in Washington state to support development of four next-generation “small modular reactors”, with a similar deal in Virginia, and…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Nearly three dozen people were killed in an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday, as Israel pressed on with a punishing offensive in northern Gaza in the wake of…

At 21, Gianluca Rindone got his first job making bodies for Fiat’s Maserati cars alongside his father, a Sicilian who had been lured to Turin’s auto boom in the 1970s. He thought it would be a lifelong career but after three decades Rindone has been furloughed, falling victim to the…

American shoppers continue to power the US economy. Spending at US retailers climbed 0.4% in September from the prior month, according to fresh government data released Thursday. That was much stronger than August’s 0.1% gain and was in line with what economists projected in a FactSet poll. Wall Street cheered…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Blackstone plans to list some of its largest investments, the world’s biggest private capital group said on Thursday, after sluggish asset sales hit its third-quarter profits.Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s president, said the recent…

Fox News anchor Bret Baier is all too keenly aware that Fox’s viewers want him to affirm what they already feel. This week, he is under pressure as he prepares for a high-stakes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris – the Democratic nominee for president’s first-ever formal interview on the right-wing cable network.…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Morgan Stanley’s quarterly profits rose 32 per cent to $3.2bn, boosted by a recovery in investment banking and an uptick in stock trading. The bank’s reported third-quarter net income was up from $2.4bn…