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  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Haley fights on as polls point to big Trump win in South Carolina

    Republican candidate also lashes out at ‘unstable and unhinged’ former president

    Nikki Haley speaks from a podium
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US warns Israel against offensive into Rafah in draft UN resolution

    Text seen by Financial Times also calls for ‘temporary ceasefire’ in Gaza

    Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    Trump rallies for donations as Biden’s campaign racks up record cash pile

    Ex-president hit by $350mn in penalties in fraud case, fuelling flurry of fundraising emails to Maga crowd

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump

    He is obsessed with money but his record suggests he doesn’t always drive a hard bargain

    Donald Trump, then the US president, talks with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron at the G20 in 2017
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Biden unveils record $130mn campaign war chest after January haul

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  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Israel’s ‘don’t reward them’ argument misses a moment of opportunity

    It is time for Biden to deploy his political capital with Israelis to give Arab diplomacy a chance

    Joe Biden with Benjamin Netanyahu during the US president’s visit to Tel Aviv in October
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Who (or what) comes after Biden? Premium content

    Americans want to be told the truth about the overconcentration of political and economic power and how it will be addressed

    President Joe Biden is reflected in a car window as he arrives at Pittsburgh International Airport on his way to East Palestine, Ohio
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Seize frozen Russian assets before US election, says Estonian PM

    Kaja Kallas highlights European concern at how a Trump presidency could affect west’s Moscow and Ukraine policy

    Kaja Kallas
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Europe must ask: what if Biden wins in November?

    Traditional allies of the US are pondering a response to Trump 2.0 but they need a plan for a Democratic election victory as well

  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    How to stop talking past each other

    In politics and in life, we need to acknowledge more often that the other side might have a point

    Ben Hickey illustration of two speeche bubbles  overlapping
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli cabinet rejects international calls for Palestinian state

    Unanimous vote highlights barrier towards peace deal as Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ over Hamas

    Israeli protesters at a border crossing with Egypt
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Mike Studeman
    The US needs a better strategic narrative or it will cede influence to China

    Department of Defense experts complain it is easier to drop a bomb than get approval to launch ‘information fire’

    Montage image of a dragon and an eagle representing China and the US
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden pins blame for Russian battlefield victory on Congress inaction

    Ukraine outgunned in Avdiivka as stalled US talks on $60bn aid package for Kyiv leave it short of munitions

    Months of fierce fighting have almost destroyed the city of Avdiivka
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    US Inflation Reduction Act
    Georgia governor says Biden subsidies are hurting state’s booming economy

    Brian Kemp claims landmark Inflation Reduction Act has fanned inflation

  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Alexander Gabuev
    Nato has no choice but to strengthen its bulwarks against Putin

    An ageing Russian ruler surrounded by sycophants may embark on even more reckless moves in coming years

    Vladimir Putin visits a military plant of Uralvagonzavod research and production corporation in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia, this month
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Nato chief warns Europe cannot deter Russia without US help

    Military alliance is growing increasingly concerned about possibility of a second Trump presidency

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  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s legal woes come to a head in his hometown of New York

    A weighty judgment and impending criminal trial pile pressure on former president as his campaign swings into high gear

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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    Israel’s Rafah offensive: a tipping point for US support?

    A heavy-handed operation in the city could be a decisive blow to the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Jerusalem

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    It’s not just Trump vs Biden, stupid Premium content

    It is virtually a given that there will be at least one, and probably several, other names on the ballot

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The security risks that haunt the world

    American power remains crucial for international stability

    Two Ukrainian soldiers seen from behind standing next to their artillery unit as it fires, filling the sky with flames
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the US wants to show Europe that it still cares about its security Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Euroclear thrown into the spotlight

    A member of the German armed forces near the venue for the Munich Security Conference in Munich
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Nato
    Why Nato members are sounding the alarm on Russia’s aggressive posture

    Western defence figures warn of Moscow’s capabilities and heightened threat beyond Ukraine

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, visiting Uralvagonzavod’s tank factory in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, Russia on February 15 2024
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Progressives beware: high turnout now favours the right

    A key electoral headwind has changed direction in recent years

    Montage of images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden with blue and red graph lines behind them
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump Georgia prosecutor hits back at misconduct claims during hearing

    District attorney Fani Willis clashes with lawyers seeking to disqualify her from former US president’s criminal case

    Fanni Willis testifies at the Fulton County court house in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    US intelligence
    White House discloses ‘troubling’ anti-satellite advance by Russia

    Kremlin said to be developing space-based system but no ‘immediate threat’ posed

    John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson
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