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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    China accuses US of ‘seriously violating’ trade truce and vows to respond

    Beijing promises to take strong measures to defend its interests

    3 hours ago
    Shipping containers are seen at the Port Jersey Container Terminal, with the Manhattan skyline in the distance, in Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Carbon capture and storage
    Drive to scrub carbon from air stalls as Trump takes aim at renewables

    Decline in carbon capture wells comes as US Energy Department cancels $3.7bn for clean energy grants

    Shell Quest carbon capture and storage facility
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    US budget
    Treasury secretary Bessent insists US will ‘never default’ on its debt

    Trump administration official seeks to assuage growing investor concern over the country’s public finances

    Scott Bessent, US Treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York on May 23
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK trade
    UK to urge Trump administration to implement zero-tariff steel accord

    Meeting between Jonathan Reynolds and Jamieson Greer follows vow by US president to double tariff to 50%

    An employee walks behind a steel ingot at Sheffield Forgemasters in Sheffield
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    ‘Loyalty above all’: conservatives wrestle with the law of Trump

    President’s judicial appointees are having to choose between fealty to the White House and the Constitution

    Leonard Leo and Donald Trump
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    Military briefing: How Iran is preparing for Israeli or US strikes

    Tehran is rebuilding air defences hit by Israel last year as threat of new attacks looms

    A Tehran woman walks past a banner showing Iranian missile launches
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    US rejects Hamas response to new Gaza ceasefire proposal

    Washington’s envoy urges militant group to accept pause in fighting and to release Israeli hostages

  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    US-China relations
    Hegseth warns Chinese military action against Taiwan ‘could be imminent’

    Beijing says US defence secretary is trying to instigate confrontation and stir up the region

    Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, gesturing with his left hand as he addresses the audience
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump tracker: the latest data on US tariffs, trade and economy

    As the president launches a trade war, follow the latest on tariffs and executive orders

    Montage of Donald Trump and a chart
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump says he will double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%

    US president escalates global trade war two days after a court ruled against the legality of his levies

    President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the US Steel-Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania on May 30 2025
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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    Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship

    An illustration of a close-up on a lapel badge of the joint US and EU flags, but with the enamel of each badge cracked
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Chinese students shaken by US visa crackdown look for Plan B

    Prospective scholars think twice about Trump’s America and consider applying to universities elsewhere

    Posters of US universities, including Harvard and Stanford Universities, on display at an overseas education agency in Beijing
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Ivan Krastev
    The court of King Donald

    People are willing to tolerate transparent conflicts of interest but they won’t stand for hypocrisy

    Illustration of Donald Trump and his family members in royal robes
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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    The House of Representatives voted to spend more and cut less. Many Republicans don’t mind

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    US warns Brazilian judge over order to block rightwing video platform user

    Trump administration steps up campaign against Alexandre de Moraes for alleged free speech clampdown

    Alexandre de Moraes
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    Dimon warns US bond market will ‘crack’ under pressure from rising debt

    JPMorgan Chase chief calls on Trump administration to set country on better fiscal path

    Jamie Dimon
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Musk ‘not really leaving’ the US government, says Trump

    President praises his billionaire backer as he steps down from heading the Doge cost-cutting initiative

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the Oval Office
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Trump accuses China of violating US tariff truce

    Washington warns talks with Beijing are ‘stalled’ two weeks after reaching deal that temporarily lowered duties

    Donald Trump during a press conference in the Oval Office
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    US trade
    US goods imports tumble 20% in April as Trump’s tariffs disrupt trade

    President’s sweeping levies have increased cost of foreign goods

    Container trucks driving past stacks of shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Francis Fukuyama
    Why doesn’t government work in the US?

    Most Americans used to think of it as a force for good — not any longer

    Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Geopolitics
    Macron calls for European and Asian ‘coalition’ during US-China tension

    French leader says grouping could help shield international order rather than choosing sides among superpowers

    Emmanuel Macron speaking at an event
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    America’s courts versus Donald Trump

    US judges are a vital restraint on the president’s attempts to rule by decree

    US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    Musk counts the cost of his ‘government efficiency’ blitz

    The billionaire achieved a fraction of the savings he promised while damaging his business brands

    Elon Musk wields a chainsaw at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Gillian Tett
    There’s a ticking time bomb in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

    Investors are fretting about a clause that would penalise foreign holders of US assets

    Illustration of Donald Trump looking especially orange with coins over his eyes
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US appeals court gives temporary reprieve to Trump’s tariffs

    Decision comes less than 24 hours after trade court ruled president’s global levies to be illegal

    An American flag flies over a ship and containers in Los Angeles port
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