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Home Office to review autism cases in anti-extremism unit

Study into Prevent programme comes after FT investigation exposing prevalence of autism in counter-terror casework

Anti-Islam Saudi immigrant held over Magdeburg attack

Four people killed and more than 200 injured after car ploughs into busy Christmas market

WhatsApp wins legal victory against NSO Group in Pegasus hacking case

Judge finds no merit in arguments made by Israeli spyware manufacturer

4 daily habits of truly happy people

There are steps you can take to achieve happiness independent of life circumstances. Read More

For roughly $30,000, this company gives you a 98% chance of getting into Harvard and the Ivy League

College is already expensive, and Crimson Education believes paying extra for top-notch admissions help is worth it. Read More

Gen Z workers think showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as being on time—but baby boomer bosses have zero tolerance for tardiness, research reveals

No wonder bosses say Gen Z are hard to manage: While 70% of boomers have zero tolerance for any level ...

MicroStrategy’s ‘financial engineering’ powers ascent to Nasdaq 100

Convertible bonds to fund bitcoin purchases have been lapped up by investors, but some fear impact if token falls sharply

From a tartan butler to a guitar concierge, these hotels have some of the best perks for business travelers 

Here are the hotels in Europe that can take business travel to the next level. Read More

Goodbye to Berlin, Europe’s self-effacing capital

The FT’s departing correspondent on the city’s transformation over the past decade

FT Weekend’s Life & Arts quiz of the year

From Swifties to Sondheim, Cardi B to a multimillion-dollar banana: 40 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of 2024

AI’s assault on our intellectual property must be stopped

Writers should not have to shoulder the burden of ‘opting out’ from companies stealing their work

Crypto giant Tether invests $775 million in Trump-friendly video service Rumble

Tether’s move to buy a large stake in Rumble signals its ambitions to expand both its technological and political ambitions. ...

Party City to wind down operations, fire employees, CEO says

Should the company follow through with its plan to file bankruptcy, it would be the second time in less than ...

CFPB sues JPMorgan, Bank of America over alleged Zelle fraud

“Zelle became a gold mine for fraudsters, while often leaving victims to fend for themselves,” the CFPB said. Read More

US Congress to hold new vote to avert government shutdown

House Republicans prepare for another attempt to pass funding bill under pressure from Donald Trump

Merck-AstraZeneca breast cancer drug reduces risk of death by 28% in patients diagnosed early, clinical trial shows

About 87.5% of patients treated with the drug were alive after six years, compared to 83.2% who received a placebo. ...

House speaker vows to avoid government shutdown as Congress eyes new spending bill without Trump’s debt ceiling raise

Republicans, keen to dodge a shutdown, decided to only introduce a one-vote spending package. Read More

Crypto markets crash after epic rally, sending Bitcoin back below $100,000

Disappointment over future of interest rate cuts triggered a selloff. Read More

Sam Altman says OpenAI’s new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI?

The new o3 models did so well on a prominent benchmark that some immediately questioned whether OpenAI, had, in fact, ...

Limit foreign political donations, says UK government’s ethical adviser

Call comes after reports that Elon Musk could make large gift to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

One dead and dozens injured after car drives into German Christmas market

National politician express sympathy after what regional government says was ‘probably an attack’ in Magdeburg

Craig Wright, who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, gets suspended prison sentence for contempt of court

The U.K. High Court ruled Wright violated a court order that required him to stop saying he was Nakamoto and ...

US to remove $10mn bounty for Syria’s Islamist rebel leader

Measure comes after American officials meet Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in Damascus

Liberal Europe must learn some history lessons to survive

Giving up the idea that 1989 marked an epochal victory for its worldview would reveal our current moment more clearly

Saudi Arabia wants to be your next destination

The Gulf nation will host a World Cup and World Expo, part of its bid to make tourism its second ...

Trump is set to inherit a ‘strong’ economy. But his and Musk’s decisions already hint at ‘economic disaster,’ critics say

“I guess Elon Musk is making the decisions now, because Republicans in Congress are incapable of making decisions on their ...

Ukraine’s waiting game for Trump

Kyiv and its European allies believe they have a chance to shape the incoming president’s plan to end the war. ...

Here’s how the Amazon delivery drivers strike will impact holiday deliveries, according to experts

A walkout — especially one that lasts many days — could delay shipments in some metro areas. Read More

Fraud case tied to $100 million NJ deli ends in guilty pleas

“Your Hometown Deli” became infamous when it was highlighted on Wall Street as an example of irrational exuberance in the ...

Former Cigna insurance executive says he quit after witnessing an industry that ‘puts profits over patients’

The former VP for corporate communications at Cigna writes about the ‘crisis of conscience’ he had while working for the ...