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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...

From the mid-2000s through the late 2010s, San Francisco was a magnet for young graduates driven largely by Web 2.0 and the mobile tech boom. It was a cool city that boasted high-paying jobs and promised a breezy West...

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The world’s biggest energy traders struggled to capitalise on the market turbulence in the early days of the Iran war, as they...

With SpaceX filing for an initial public offering, the tone in markets is unmistakably bullish. Analysts are already calling it “one of the year’s most-anticipated market debuts” and “one of the largest IPOs ever.”Unlike the outdated IPO framework of...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has confidentially filed to go public, firing the starting gun on what is expected to be...