Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jes Staley was named as a trustee of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate up until at least 2015, newly released documents show,…
“Merzoni” isn’t a neologism that easily trips off the tongue, and it hasn’t fully taken hold in the world of European politics. Yet, for months, a pragmatic alliance between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has…
At age 22, Eileen Gu is one of the best freestyle skiers in the world—amassing four Olympic medals to her name. She’s also a student at Stanford University studying international relations, currently on leave for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Games. But…
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok has found a head-scratcher buried in the financial data: For years, the price of gold and real interest rates have been inversely correlated; as interest rates rise, the price of gold goes down. Now, however,…
Attorney General Pam Bondi launched into a passionate defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday as she tried to turn the page from relentless criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, repeatedly shouting at Democrats during a combative…
Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break. By then the man was released…
The U.S. working-age population is headed for a cliff, one that has become much steeper over the past year due, in part, to the Trump administration’s strict immigration policies. The proportion of American adults who are employed or actively looking…
James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in “Dawson’s Creek” and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48. “Our beloved…
As the U.S. shale oil boom matures, Big Oil is doing something it hasn’t done in years: increasing global exploration outside of the Americas. In the most notable recent move, Chevron announced on Feb. 11 its return to Libya, after…
Despite a better-than-expected jobs report Wednesday, there’s a wider, inconvenient fact about life in the 21st century: labor takes home an ever smaller share of the economic pie. The pattern has been accelerating for nearly 50 years, in fact. In…