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Trump to surrender to New York prosecutors on Tuesday

Defence lawyer says former US president ‘will not be put in handcuffs’ in hush money case

‘Don’t take the bait’: pro-Trump protesters fail to show up in New York

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Explainer. The cases facing Donald Trump

Republican Party US

DeSantis falls in line with Republicans in closing ranks behind Trump

Analysis

Person in the News. Donald Trump: indictment arrives for the ex-president

The FT View. Wheels of justice turn for a former US president

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Top stories

Fed governor Cook yet to decide on need for another rate rise

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Putin’s new doctrine calls US ‘main source’ of threat to Russian security

Foreign policy update accuses Washington of using Ukraine war to weaken ‘peaceful’ nation

Russian tennis players allowed back to compete at Wimbledon

Markets Briefing. Nasdaq records best quarter since 2020 after volatile start to year

Tech-heavy US index gains 17% in first three months of 2023 as investors shed interest rate worries

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Dealmaking at 10-year low in first quarter as bank crisis hits confidence

Media

Fox to face trial in $1.6bn Dominion voting machine defamation case

Judge says ‘crystal clear’ that statements about Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss were false

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Warner Bros Discovery scales back music sale as bids fall short

Spotlight

Chinese politics & policy

‘Dare to fight’: Xi unveils China’s new world order

The Chinese leader has inverted the ‘hide and bide’ doctrine in a bid to shape a global system around Beijing’s interests

We are living through a trillion-dollar rebalancing

Beneath a veil of silence, a hugely dramatic and powerful episode of financial repression is ongoing

News

EY bosses present united front after dispute over stalled break-up plan

Joint statement claims progress on ‘Project Everest’ after planning for the split was halted this month

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US politics & policy

Biden offers olive branch to allies in electric vehicle subsidy dispute

Long-awaited tax credit guidance expands origins for critical battery minerals but not components

Data Points. Why are Americans dying so young?

John Burn-Murdoch

The Big Read. Lex in depth: how safe are America’s regional banks?

After the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and others, the FT has analysed more than 100 institutions to identify those that are the biggest cause for concern

Explainer. How rising interest rates are exposing bank weaknesses

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission USA

US regulator plays for high stakes with Binance lawsuit

CFTC chair sets out probably his ‘most significant case’ yet brought against crypto markets

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Binance hid extensive links to China for several years

Finland’s PM Sanna Marin faces reckoning at home

Prime minister is lauded abroad but cuts a polarising figure in her own country, jeopardising chances of re-election

Finland cleared to join Nato as Turkish parliament backs accession

Artificial intelligence

Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns

Data protection authority becomes first regulator in world to open investigation into Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s chatbot

Multiple red flags are not yet slowing the generative AI train

Mis-steps that brought Virgin Orbit crashing back to earth

Branson vehicle teeters after series of flawed decisions and a failed launch lead to painful denouement

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Virgin Orbit shares plunge after announcing ‘ceased operations’

Colm Kelleher: Irish banking veteran overseeing Credit Suisse takeover

UBS chair pivotal to biggest banking deal since 2008

Boomerang chief executives provide comfort in times of crisis

Japan to restrict semiconductor equipment exports as China chip war intensifies

Tokyo aligns with Washington in move expected to significantly curtail activity by Beijing

China’s YMTC set for chip comeback despite US export controls

Sovereign bonds

Quarter of emerging countries lose effective access to debt markets

Banking turmoil has driven up spreads on sovereign bond yields over US Treasuries to levels that impair ability to raise funds

Lloyd's of London Ltd

Lloyd’s of London battles insurers over ‘state-backed’ cyber attacks

Demand to exclude state-backed attacks from policies stirs controversy

India hunts for spyware that rivals controversial Pegasus system

Opinion

Law versus man: Trump’s courtroom drama begins

New York indictment is an extraordinary moment for the former president — and for American justice

The Top Line. ‘Greedflation’: profit-boosting mark-ups attract an inevitable backlash

Some companies seized on widely reported disruptions to raise prices and increase margins at the expense of consumers

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

Prepare for a multipolar currency world

Foreign companies must tackle China’s three-headed Cerberus

Instant Insight. Von der Leyen’s ‘de-risking’ is a tougher stance on China

Lex. Wall Street bonuses: payouts down, anxiety up

Unhedged. Banks fail, stocks shrug

Enough green platitudes — business wants action

Nathalie Thomas

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US News

Trump indictment thrusts a divided nation into new chapter of chaos

Partisans spar over whether charges are example of justice or political intimidation

Flood of cash into US money market funds could add to banking strains

Biden calls for tougher rules for large regional banks

Interview. US-China decoupling is hurting innovation, World Bank warns

Fed’s Susan Collins signals she expects one more quarter-point rate increase

Lawyers for Leon Black accuser seek to quit sexual assault case

Illumina chief’s pay nearly doubles ahead of clash with Carl Icahn

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Rachman Review. The rise and fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Behind the Money. Inside UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse

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The Weekend Essay. Hamnet reborn: a pandemic bestseller moves from page to stage

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HTSI. The winners (and losers) at the World Alcohol-Free Awards

Chinese artists test censorship’s new red line

Review. The best books of the week

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Highlights

Visual investigation. Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling

An investigation into the Chinese criminal networks helping to prop up the rogue nuclear regime

Dear Jonathan. I am stuck on a consultancy project I don’t like. How do I accelerate a move?

The Henry Mance Interview. Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

Succession is painful but it doesn’t need to be

Margaret Heffernan

Why five days in the office don’t add up

The Big Read. China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress

The Big Read. The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech

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