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A banner of US President Donald Trump outside of the Department of Justice (DOJ) building in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAll states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion.The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel’s prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance…
Men look at a a board with the BOVESPA index at the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3) in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 7, 2025. Nelson Almeida | Afp | Getty ImagesBrazilian stocks are rallying again after a monthslong sell-off from six-year highs reached in April. The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ), which is up more than 12% from last month’s lows, is now 19% higher on the year. It’s ahead of the Nasdaq-100’s 15% year-to-date advance.The rally might be tied to the price of commodities, which are also surging, or an expression of optimism around the country’s upcoming…
The Reform leader has been dogged by questions over his finances after receiving a £5 million sum from Christopher Harborne. Source link
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesNew Jersey has asked the Supreme Court to review a case that could determine whether states or the federal government have oversight of prediction markets.”We’re calling on the Supreme Court to resolve this issue and recognize that Congress did not silently make the sports-betting industry immune from state law,” said Jennifer Davenport, New Jersey’s attorney general in a statement. In the petition, New Jersey is asking the Supreme Court to take up an April ruling from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that all event contracts are a…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Ukrainian officials are weighing a relaxation of Kyiv’s curfew rules as days of deadly, near-continuous Russian attacks on the capital and its surrounding region force a rethink of measures that have governed daily life since the early days of the 2022 full-scale invasion.The government is drawing up plans to “adapt the work of the state, the capital, the economy and critical infrastructure to the new tactics of Russian attacks”, Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said last week. Moscow, he said, “is trying…
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a healthcare affordability event in the Oval Office at the White House on Aug. 31, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz — the central point of contention in the ongoing war against Iran that the U.S. and Israel started — after himself.The proposal via a Truth Social post came less than a week after Trump, who is locked in an intensifying feud with Canada, signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.””Now that we have it…
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has pressed Andy Burnham over UK borrowing and spending at his first Prime Minister’s Questions.Badenoch called on the PM to say where spending would be cut and how he would deal with the UK’s increasing debt, after the cost of borrowing for the UK rose, reaching a new 18-year high on Wednesday.The PM blamed the previous Conservative government saying that the “turbulence on global markets are because of that exposure that they left behind”.Burnham became prime minister in July, having taken over from Sir Keir Starmer just before Parliament’s summer recess, and it was the first…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reprimanded state agencies after a shootout involving two rival security services broke out on the streets of Kyiv.After violence erupted overnight and on Wednesday morning in the sleepy Berezniaky district, Ukraine’s largest spy agency, the SBU, released a first statement claiming that a joint operation with military intelligence, known as the HUR, had foiled a Russian “terrorist attack” targeting “one of the leaders of the Russian opposition”.But four hours later the SBU suggested in a fresh statement that…
President Donald Trump will meet Wednesday with executives from some of the country’s largest airlines, hotel chains and travel companies as the White House looks to build on a summer tourism boost fueled in part by the men’s FIFA World Cup.The meeting will include representatives from American Airlines, Booking Holdings, Caesars Entertainment, Carnival, Hard Rock International, Hilton, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, MGM Resorts International, Raffles & Fairmont and the Venetian, according to a White House official.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman, White House FIFA World Cup task force Executive Director Andrew Giuliani…
The backdrop to his first few days as prime minister with Westminster in full swing has been the increased cost of borrowing – a global trend but one to which the UK is exposed and which looks likely to limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre at the budget come the end of October.Burnham has promised a transformational government but he’s facing many of the same challenges as Sir Keir Starmer, with difficult decisions on defence spending, welfare and social care – to name just a few – hurtling towards him.These are the pressure points his political opponents will seek to…