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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Messages from the archive of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategistWhatsApp to Stephen: The more I think about this the more I think we really should set up a Manchester office.WhatsApp to Stephen: I know I was mocking this No 10 North as Andy Burnham’s WFH play but I think there are opportunities here. There is a cost — we’ll have to get an office (something small for now) and probably a couple of hires. One will have to be a local,…

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As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century England, people rioted against a mandatory smallpox vaccine, claiming that it violated civil rights and was an affront to human bodily integrity. In the United States, organizations dedicated to resisting vaccines have existed since the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League of Brooklyn was established in 1894. Researchers generally refer to people who do not follow the standard advice of health professionals about vaccines, by either refusing or delaying some or all vaccines, as vaccine hesitant. Today, vaccine hesitancy is most famously associated…

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945. The conflict between Iran, the US and Israel has seen 12 countries in the Middle East directly involved in fighting — making it the most widespread war in the region for decades. In east Asia, North Korea is pursuing a rapid military build-up and has renounced the goal of peaceful reunification with the South. Meanwhile, China has stepped up its naval exercises around Taiwan and seems…

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Investing.com — stock is sliding 4.5% in morning trading after the regional lender’s pre-market Q2 2026 earnings report delivered a mixed set of results that left investors focused squarely on the revenue shortfall. Total revenue came in at $196.9 million, up 12% year over year but below the roughly $199.7 million Wall Street had anticipated, while net interest income of $153.6 million fell short of the approximately $156.7 million projection — a notable miss for a metric that analysts had flagged as the key watchpoint heading into the report. On the positive side, diluted EPS of $1.47 edged past the…

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This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Monday and Friday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersAnother day, another tariff. Last week, President Donald Trump created more of the sort of chaos he loves by throwing down the tariff gauntlet again to dozens of nations. Some of it was about trying to make sure forced labour is being taken out of the supply chains of nations sending goods to the US. Some of it was about using antiquated rules…

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Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyberattack committed by rogue OpenAI models continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to defend itself, with guardrails not distinguishing between aggressor and defender. Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open-weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions.In the wake of U.S. lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced…

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