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When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January, he will preside over a coveted “unity government” and his party will control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. But a handful of more moderate Republican senators could still block the president-elect legislative agendaand even block the confirmation of some of…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Georgia’s prime minister insisted the president must step down this month and rejected US accusations that his government acted undemocratically in freezing EU accession talks as the South Caucasus republic’s political crisis deepened. Prime Minister Irakli…

It’s not often that a single stock can bring you life-changing wealth, but Bespoke Investment Group has identified a few that will make you want to travel back in time. In a note on Tuesday, Bespoke calculated that a $1,000 investment in the Nvidia shares 20 years ago would be worth about $944,000 now, meaning…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-editor of the newly published magazine ‘Turbulences in the Eastern Mediterranean: geopolitical, security and energy dynamics’ While the world is understandably…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US government lawyers are clamoring for jobs at corporate law firms in anticipation of major cuts to the administrative state under Donald Trump. Hundreds of employees from agencies including the Justice Department, the…

They accommodated you, your mom and dad. If Philip Larkin had written his poetry in the 2020s, he might have removed the expletive from his famous poem to reflect the reality of modern parental financial support. Children of wealthier parents begin their adult lives with enormous financial advantages. The Bank of Mum and Dad (Bomad)…

For the past few years, Syria has been locked in an uncomfortable stalemate, fractured and devastated after more than a decade of civil war, but with frozen front lines and seemingly the worst of the fighting. President Bashar al-Assad’s regime declared a Pyrrhic victory after brutally crushing a rebellion with military support from Russia, Iran…

Elon Musk has stepped up his attacks on the UK since the election of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor government, calling the country a “police state”. But he enjoys a warmer relationship with former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, both of whom have tried to strengthen ties with the world’s richest man, now one…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Remember when cryptocurrency was so tightly and onerously regulated, so unnecessarily scrutinized by the authorities, that the entire market crashed in spectacular fashion as one after another heavily regulated crypto platform fell into…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of candidates taking the CFA exams has been steadily declining as demand for a qualification once considered essential to the profession declines. The latest results available for the CFA Institute, which oversees the tests,…