South Africa vows to pursue Israel genocide case despite Trump pressure
South Africa’s foreign minister has vowed to push ahead with its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice despite an executive order signed by Donald Trump punishing the ...
Elon Musk barred from accessing US Treasury payments data
Elon Musk’s crusade to slash US government spending suffered setbacks on Thursday after a federal judge barred the Treasury ...
Peter Mandelson’s back: the Prince of Darkness returns
All political careers may end in failure, but the UK’s new ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, isn’t done yet ...
What if Donald Trump calls the courts’ bluff?
Trump has only partially complied. On his first day he all but tore up a Supreme Court ruling from the previous week upholding Congress’s ban on TikTok. Both his vice-president JD Vance and his chief ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How far can Doge go?
Marc Filippino Elon Musk is Washington’s new consultant in chief. He’s been tasked with making the government leaner. And this week, his Department of Government Efficiency made headlines by gaining ...
It was a US Treasury triumph at the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz in Washington DC
It’s sometimes hard to tell in advance how tough a given FT Alphaville Pub Quiz will be. Plus, last night’s quizzery in the heart of Washington DC had an added twist — rather than the smörgåsbord of ...
Middle East and Europe condemn Donald Trump’s plans to take over Gaza
US allies across Europe and the Middle East have condemned Donald Trump’s plans for Washington to “take over” Gaza and any ...
Swamp Notes: How far can Doge go?
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, dominated the headlines this week as agency members gained access to sensitive data at the Treasury department. FT Washington reporters Joe ...
China imposes retaliatory tariffs on $14bn worth of US goods
China has imposed retaliatory tariffs on the US, its embassy in Washington said on Sunday — hitting about $14bn worth of goods and dashing hopes that a trade war between the world’s two largest ...
FirstFT: Trump’s Gaza plan triggers global uproar
Trump’s grandiose Middle East playbook: A clear pattern has emerged in the history of the US president’s interventions in the ...
Narendra Modi’s BJP wins in Delhi polls for first time in almost 3 decades
Narendra Modi’s party has claimed victory in state polls in Delhi, regaining control of the capital’s regional government for the first time in almost three decades and buoying the prime minister ...
In Trump’s Washington, Words Become Weaponized
The previous administration’s progressive lexicon has been swept away, replaced by a new official language of a bureaucracy ...