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Given that fewer Americans are donating and volunteering and that people in the U.S. appear to be losing trust in one another, it may seem like generosity has eroded in the United States.The nation’s political,...

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.UK trading firm XTX Markets has reported record profits of £1.7bn, as turbulent global markets helped drive a sharp rise in...

Year-round warm weather, hitting the links, and kicking back with the grandkids has long been the quintessential American retirement daydream. While that’s still out of reach for many Americans, most still hope and expect to retire comfortably after 40-plus...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Clifford Chance, HSBC’s UK asset management business and McKinsey are among leading City companies to have disclosed a widening UK gender...

Budget hawks in Washington have their eyes trained on April 3, when the White House is scheduled to release its fiscal year 2027 budget request, centering on a significant “historic” defense spending increase to $1.5 trillion. The national debt...

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldDonald Trump has announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 100 per cent on drugs as the president...

In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them.The novelty? It uses artificial intelligence to sort them by composition at...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to soon become a public company in what may be the biggest initial public offering in history. But my new research suggests that investors who buy shares of the company...

Can giving homeless people US$750 a month to use any way they choose help them move into long-term housing?I am the director of the University of Southern California Homelessness Policy Research Institute. My research...

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe US-UK “special relationship” is usually dismissed as a figment of British imagination. The joke goes that the relationship...