Trump now owns Venezuela

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldAs military operations go, the US kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro was ...

53-year-old customs broker wants to ‘Make Trade Boring Again,’ saying you won’t believe how complex cheese is these days

After a half-century immersed in the world of trade, customs broker Amy Magnus thought she’d seen it all, navigating mountains of regulations and all sorts of logistical hurdles to import everything ...

Attacker who killed US troops in Syria was a recent recruit to security forces

A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid ...

Tech stocks look shaky, and the market is ‘showing early signs of vulnerability,’ JPMorgan analyst says

Nasdaq 100 futures were flat this morning after the index lost 1% yesterday following Tesla’s Q3 earnings call, which investors did not like. The stock was down 3% after Elon Musk’s company revealed ...

Here are the 4 pillars of Trump’s growing crypto empire—and the key people running the show

It’s no secret that President Trump, once a Bitcoin skeptic, has become a full-blown convert and that he and his family are using crypto to enrich themselves. What far fewer people understand is how ...

Why AI video avatars are serving some of the world’s biggest companies

Constructing an avatar of myself is even weirder than I expected. It’s a choreographed experience that made me feel about as socially awkward as I’ve ever felt while alone. I gave the avatar ...

A bartenders’ guide to the best cocktails in Washington

This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Washington DCWashington is a centre for gossip that does, and doesn’t, matter. Downtown is filled with secrets that journalists, lobbyists and ...

Will recycling ever be profitable? AMP Robotics is using AI to make it so

There’s an old English saying: Where there’s muck, there’s brass. Garbage isn’t sexy, but it can be lucrative, if handled correctly—especially when it comes to retrieving and reusing recyclable ...

These companies are rolling up their sleeves to implement AI

For today’s business leaders, there’s nothing more exhilarating—and daunting—than the potential of AI.The economic gains it promises to unlock are almost unfathomable, so there’s no more urgent task ...

AI is already changing the practice of law, attorneys say

In 2019 a metal cart rolled down the aisle of an Avianca flight from El Salvador to New York and struck Roberto Mata on the knee. Mata retained two personal injury lawyers to sue the airline, ...