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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris rules out bilateral talks with Putin on ending war in Ukraine

    Democratic presidential candidate says Kyiv must be involved in any negotiations

    Kamala Harris
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Ukraine’s shifting war aims

    Kyiv is not being given the support it needs to regain the upper hand over Russia

    Ukrainian servicemen operate a tank on a road near the border with Russia
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The false promise of regime change in Iran

    Military intervention is not the way to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic

    James Ferguson illustration of Netanyahu trying to topple a Supreme Leader statue.
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump’s transition chief says appointees must prove ‘loyalty’

    Billionaire investor Howard Lutnick dismisses Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as ‘radioactive’

    Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack in New York
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    How ‘Harris effect’ could help California Democrats flip US House

    The ability of the next president to govern could hinge on a handful of contests in the deep blue state

    Cardboard cut outs of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the window at the Grassroots Democrats Headquarters in Los Angeles.
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump would raise US debt by twice as much as Harris, report finds

    Non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns of heightened risk of ‘an eventual fiscal crisis’

    Donald Trump dances onstage during a campaign rally. A separate photo shows vice-president Kamala Harris exiting Air Force Two
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    US official says ‘dangerous’ disinformation hampers storm recovery

    Trump campaign has attacked Kamala Harris with unproven claims about the Hurricane Helene relief effort

    Bottled water and packages of aid are piled on the ground
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    The best books of the week
    On Freedom — Timothy Snyder’s timely manifesto for our fearful age

    The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US

    A white flag with one horizontal blue stripe hangs on the fence of a single-storey brick-built house in southern Russia. Well-kept flowers are in bloom in front of the fence and the flag
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump holds rally with Musk at site of assassination attempt

    Tesla founder warns crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, that Democrats would take away democracy, free speech and gun rights

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump are seen interacting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Musk is wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap, while Trump is facing away from the camera.
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The swing state battles that will win the US election

    From a ‘blue wall’ to the American desert, these are the places where the 2024 presidential race will be decided

    A montage of the US with photos of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the background and a hand holding a card with 2024 and a tick on it
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Ukraine, Nato membership and the West Germany model Premium content

    Security guarantees will have to underpin any peace deal where Russia retains control of Ukrainian land

    Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, October 3 2024
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz to make ‘significant’ donation to Harris

    Andreessen Horowitz co-founder previously backed Trump but will make personal contribution to Democratic candidate after Biden dropped out

    Ben Horowitz
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    US strikes Houthi targets in Yemen as fears grow of wider Mideast war

    Joe Biden defends Israel’s right to defend itself as it escalates offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon

    Houthi supporters hold posters depicting Hizbollah’s late leader Hassan Nasrallah and wave the flags of the group during a protest in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people in Sana’a, Yemen on October 4, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden

    The US president had hoped to disentangle from the Middle East. But the turbulence in the region could influence the election and define his legacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Washington and ruined buildings
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    War, peace and the American presidency Premium content

    The Middle East has claimed as many US presidential campaigns as it has given birth to

    Projectiles above the Israeli city of Ashdod on October 1, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Q&AThe Big Question
    The Big Question: does age matter in politics? 

    This week, the FT asks readers whether they care about how old leaders are

    Joe Biden and Kemi Badenoch
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

    US officials believe response to Iranian strike will be measured enough to avoid escalation

    US President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington on October 3
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Can Zuckerberg rise above the US political fray?

    Meta chief seeks neutral stance ahead of US election but critics argue he is placating critics such as Trump

    A montage of Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg abd Kamala Harris with a large Meta logo in the background
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Harris’s Wall Street charm offensive begins to pay off

    Vice-president builds ties with finance bosses in attempt to quell support for Trump

    A montage of Kamala Harris with the New York Stock Exchange building in the background
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    US labour disputes
    US dockworkers suspend strike that threatened to cripple ports

    Workers will return under deal to extend contract until January 15 and avert billions in economic damage

    Dockworkers on strike outside the Port of Savannah in Georgia
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Vance ‘crazy’ for refusing to accept 2020 election result, says Republican Senate candidate

    Larry Hogan fears the party’s candidates for Congress could lose because of Trump’s divisive rhetoric

    Larry Hogan
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    Is Kamala Harris having a breakthrough with voters on the economy?

    Also in today’s newsletter, Trump races through Texas oil country in bid to raise cash

    Kamala Harris speaks at a lectern
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris campaigns with Cheney to woo anti-Trump Republican voters

    Liz Cheney will appear with Democratic presidential candidate in swing state of Wisconsin on Thursday

    Kamala Harris  speaks at a campaign event
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why I stopped making election forecasts

    The shocks of recent times have shown the rational voter is a myth

    Illustration showing two contrasting voting booths: one minimalist and grey, the other bright and adorned with American flag colours and stars, with a hand casting a ballot
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