The uphill battle to beat Trump

The FT News Briefing presents a special episode from Slate's "What Next" podcast. As wealth disparity continues to grow, politicians in New York and California have suggested raising revenue through taxes aimed at their wealthiest residents. But the proposals have set off an uppe ...  Show more

The blockbuster listings of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to prompt an unprecedented wave of buying and selling, and a court in Ankara has ruled to remove the leadership of Turkey’s biggest opposition party. Plus, we’ll look at why US President Donald Trump is turning up t ...  Show more

It’s almost time to wave goodbye to the summer, but is Rishi Sunak also poised to bid farewell to some of his ministers? The FT’s Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher is joined by columnist Stephen Bush and political editor George Parker to discuss a cabinet shake up. Plus, the FT’s U ...

The FT News Briefing is a rundown of the global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. If you enjoy it, subscribe to the FT News Briefing wherever you get your podcasts, or listen at FT.com/newsbriefing. Western governments ...  Show more

Greg Valliere, Horizon Investments' chief global strategist, discusses James Comey's dismissal and says Trump's agenda is stalled and tax reform is dead for this year. Prior to that, Marvin Barth, Barclays' global head of FX strategy, says the ECB is still on course to change its ...  Show more

Donald Trump employs the novel legal strategy of confessing his crimes on television. Hunter Biden strikes a plea deal with a Trump prosecutor. RFK JR’s anti-vax, anti-wifi candidacy gets a boost from Joe Rogan and Elon’s VC fanboys. And Justice Sam Alito is mad we all found out ...  Show more