as.ft.com/r/6a893f8d-e... Donald Trump made more than $1bn last year in return to presidency

To be fair, I sometimes share your suspicions @nytimes.com

as.ft.com/r/a1e04378-d... US Supreme Court blocks Donald Trump from sacking Fed governor Lisa Cook

The @FT style guide is a thing of beauty... Just two of the updates added to it today:

Venezuela rocked by two huge earthquakes as.ft.com/r/d6bcfaa0-c...

US defence secretary Pete hegseth forces out top army officer in Europe: "Several former top military officers told the FT that Hegseth had created a climate of fear that was affecting the whole military up to the top brass." as.ft.com/r/9fba8fb2-b...

as.ft.com/r/9b98fd6c-4... Venezuela to reveal $240bn debt pile in world’s largest restructuring

So...SpaceX evaporated a lot of wealth and is taking the air out of the market right now?

"The $400bn hit to SpaceX’s market capitalisation on Monday ranks as the second-biggest one-day loss suffered by any company." as.ft.com/r/f63f0c0b-c...

as.ft.com/r/3449070c-2... Alan Greenspan dies aged 100

Keir Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister as.ft.com/r/00f6287a-8...

Things are going to get worse for Russia if it doesn’t accept a ceasefire www.ft.com/content/78d8... UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components

as.ft.com/r/791bbf4c-d... “The contest in Makerfield, a white working-class seat between Manchester and Liverpool, could prove pivotal in British politics, as Burnham showed his party that Labour can still beat Reform in its traditional heartlands.”

Ukrainian drone campaign chokes Moscow's lifeline to Crimea as.ft.com/r/4a6379ac-9...

The JCPOA was working. Tearing it up was a huge mistake.

Early projections on Sunday showed Swiss voters had rejected a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10mn people, delivering a surprise defeat to a rightwing initiative that had appeared neck and neck in opinion polls until just days before the vote ft.trib.al/X3a0hqp

AI is disrupting investment @katie0martin.ft.com as.ft.com/r/960f62f4-d...

"It's a republic, not a democracy" say the people cheering for gladiatorial combat in the capital city in a mixture of patriotic fervor and celebration of the ruler's birthday.

The iranian missile cities the US could not destroy as.ft.com/r/f0f5e89a-b...

"The near-abandonment of content moderation on many social media sites had made it far easier for activists to post inflammatory content, many people involved said." as.ft.com/r/83310da8-5...

Will SpaceX's IPO be an investment supernova? Or more like the Death Star? Great visualisations and insights in this piece by @samjoiner.bsky.social andmy other @FT colleagues on how index investing and looser rules on inclusion will pull many of us into the IPO's orbit as.ft.com/r/5c6c2d8d-a...

Efficiency vs ethics (and equity, too)? Look for a lot of stories like this going forward, as America's powerful AI products offer public officials tradeoffs between saving money and their other values. as.ft.com/r/7a1d4d62-4...

The US and Iran exchanged fire early on Wednesday after the downing of an American helicopter, in the biggest flare-up since the warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in April. Why do the countries hate each other so much? @johnreedwrites.ft.com takes us back to the beginning. #FTExplains #FTEdit

“What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

great thanks JD very helpful *VANCE TO CBS: IRAN DEAL COULD COME IN A WEEK, OR MONTHS

Trump is becoming Jimmy Carter @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/56249641-5...

Think this is first time “That’s so ass” has appeared as a quote in the FT

'He's not even a Knicks fan': Trump booed on return to Madison Square Garden as.ft.com/r/a12c1f9e-3...

Trump tells @edwardluce.bsky.social in a telephone interview that Netanyahu will "have no choice" but to accept a deal with Iran: "He won’t have any choice. I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.” as.ft.com/r/184f41e6-d...

Armenians back pivot from Moscow in Pashinyan election win as.ft.com/r/f5b2abb6-4...

Utterly brilliant. Go BBC 👊

If the Nobel committee won’t give Trump the Peace Prize for ending the most number of wars… maybe they’ll give it to him for ending one war the most number of times.

Read this wonderful @robarmstrong.bsky.social column on my second-favourite of the 7 deadly sins: "Vanity, channelled the right way, helps bring order and joy to social life." as.ft.com/r/7b9a73ac-3...

In Maine, widespread unhappiness with tariffs and the spiralling costs of fuel and machinery are setting the scene for a ferocious political showdown in November’s midterm elections: ft.trib.al/aygJ1I9

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

Excl: UK govt would oppose any attempt from Sunil Bharti Mittal to increase his stake in telecoms giant BT British govt figure cited the need to maintain sovereign control over “critical national infrastructure” Mittal’s Bharti Enterprises conglomerate bought a 24.5% stake in BT in 2024

Alberta to hold vote on referendum to separate from Canada as.ft.com/r/1786c66d-a...

Great visual piece by my colleagues @annanicolaou.bsky.social and Dan Clark analysing President Trump's AI-generated "slopaganda" machine: "This is the Russian playbook with an American accent." as.ft.com/r/cd0afdb3-4...

Poland, Malta, Greece, Bulgaria (in that order)

It’s one of those weeks when I’m reminded the always globally minded title I work for is actually a UK newspaper too

Is Ukraine decoupling/ derisking from the US? "One of Ukraine’s leading weapons manufacturers says it launched two satellites this year and plans “dozens” more in 2027, as the country seeks to lessen its reliance on the US government and western tech companies." @christopherjm.ft.com

Read this piece on Iran's "mosquito fleet" - a key part of Tehran's toolkit in this asymmetric conflct: "They don’t have to hit every ship going through Hormuz, they just have to hit enough to keep the insurance market on edge. It’s the US which has to protect almost every vessel going through.”

Yo momma so old, Labour MPs speculate about her standing down to create a vacancy for Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham has crossed the Trent

„A time-honoured New York ritual is playing out again as millionaires and billionaires threaten to flee the global financial capital where they own luxurious second homes.” as.ft.com/r/f480661b-c...

people are making fun of this but what if he pulled out the most badass speech out of his ass, huh? he looks at the speech on the podium and RIPS it up, and his advisors are like "Mr Starmer what are you DOING" and he's like "something I should have done a LONG TIME AGO" then he gets out a guitar

Good to see the LibDems gradually rebuilding the Kingdom of Wessex one shire at a time under King Ædward of Davey. Just Hamtunscīr, Wiltunscir and the Vale of Teste to conquer before the kingdom is reunited to fight back the Reforme hordes of Mercia and Essex

Waking up this morning to Britain’s new political rainbow… (do rainbows have this much blue in them?)

The media is just a few steps away from tying us to chairs and prying our eyes open to force us to watch podcasts instead of simply listening to them.