Activist investors give Japan a wake-up call

Keir Starmer has resigned as British prime minister, private equity executives are borrowing against their future share of profits, and former US Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100. Plus, the FT’s Andean correspondent Joe Daniels traveled to a rural part ...  Show more

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be on his way out of Westminster, and the US and Iran held high-stakes talks in Switzerland to officially end the war. Venture capital funds are rushing into defense tech startups on the back of the world’s wars, and the FT’s Claire Jones expl ...  Show more

The economic cost of the government shutdown is mounting, as workers miss paychecks and contracts stall. President Trump’s feud with Colombia is deepening, with threats to cut aid testing a decades-long alliance. And in France, outrage is growing after the Louvre jewel heist, wit ...  Show more

How did it feel to take on then Prime Minister Boris Johnson when Baroness Hale ruled his suspension of Parliament "unlawful"? Why does the Trump administration present such a threat to the international rule of law? The ‘Spider Woman’ has been at the centre of the legal battle f ...  Show more

Is Donald Trump lying about the Epstein birthday letter? Why has he rebranded to The Department of War? Is the US economy finally feeling the real effects of Trump’s tariffs? This week, Anthony Scaramucci is joined by renowned journalist Stephen Sackur to answer all these questio ...  Show more

The Biden administration is set to look more closely at U.S. investments going abroad; Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey) explains why some American businesses and inv ...