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    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      Is Gavin Newsom running a ‘shadow campaign’ for US president?

      California governor’s Fox News appearances prompt debate about whether he is a Biden surrogate — or rival

      California governor Gavin Newsom
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      News in-depthUS society
      Cannabis redraws US’s 2024 electoral map

      Republicans and Democrats face an electorate that increasingly favours looser marijuana laws

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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      US inflation
      Falling fuel prices and airfares bring relief ahead of US Thanksgiving

      Turkey and other food costs are also down, while petrol price is lowest since January

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    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
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      The global network behind the fentanyl crisis

      The illicit trade routes responsible for the worst overdose crisis in US history

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
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      FT Magazine
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      The artist uses geophone recordings to celebrate a world that is slipping away

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    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      Biden and Trump leap ahead of presidential rivals in fundraising race

      But donations to both men are lower than comparable figures for Obama, Clinton and Trump in 2020

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      US interest rates
      Fed signals fresh rate rise this year and fewer cuts in 2024

      Two-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2006 after hawkish projections from US central bank

      The Federal Reserve building in Washington
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Visual story
      Can Europe go green without China’s critical minerals?

      The EU’s increasing demand for rare earths is causing problems for policymakers

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      How generative AI really works

      The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

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    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
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    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
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    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
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      Americans are staying right where they are

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      FT montage of young people moving boxes of their possessions, with the lines of a chart falling around them
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
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      Companies around the world are closing in on the dream: a battery-powered aircraft for short trips. Yet the journey to build, certify and fly remains uncertain and competitive

    • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
      US interest rates
      Economists forecast at least two more US rate rises to quell inflation

      Experts polled by the FT say Fed will need to take tougher action than markets expect to cool economy

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    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
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      Fearing a potential conflict in Asia, western companies are looking to move production out of Taiwan. But turning away from the self-ruled island will come at a high price for manufacturers

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
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      Prices are finally coming down but ‘core’ price pressures remain stubbornly high

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
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      We don’t know when. We don’t know who will get there first. But Q-day will happen — and it will change the world as we know it

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Visual story
      ‘India’s century’: can the most populous nation unlock the potential of its youth?

      India could seize its demographic dividend — or squander it

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