US secretary of state Marco Rubio claimed to a US radio station this week that China could potentially “shut down the Panama Canal” in any conflict. Ahead of a trip to Panama this weekend, he added: ...

Sonja Hutson The US disperses tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid each year. That money has been a key source of American diplomatic power for decades. But with the stroke of a pen, President ...

But they warn that, if that fails, Iran is on a collision course with the west. European powers that opposed Trump’s maximum ...

Mexico’s government has been creating shelters fit for 2,500 people each to take back deportees from the US. Several ...

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets ...

President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis ...

“Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities.” It also ...

Claire Jones Exactly. So Trump said after the meeting on the Truth Social platform that the Fed had done very little to fight inflation, that it was something that he would solve and then criticised ...

President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom will be thwarted by Wall Street’s reluctance to approve another drilling ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

Star presenters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von have monetised the ‘manosphere’ and influenced politics. Will traditional ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has put more than $300bn of potential federal infrastructure funding at risk, US investors said, as they grappled with the scale of his move to unpick Joe ...