Electors for the State of Louisiana

Netflix adaptation of sci-fi novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’ sparks anger in China

...“On the other hand, the Tencent version of the adaptation maintains a high level of respect for the original details of the novel, although it does omit certain sensitive scenes,” Ng added....

March 29, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

UK proposes plan to end Israel-Hamas war

...for the establishment of a Palestinian state....

January 27, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthMike Johnson

Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conversion on aid for Ukraine

...It organised a speaking tour for Roman Rubchenko, a Ukrainian basketball star who had played for the US state’s university, to tell voters in Louisiana about the war....

April 24, 2024

Person in the News

Mike Johnson, another House Speaker under attack from his own side

...The first in his family to go to college, he earned a law degree from Louisiana State University....

April 12, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: The main takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union speech

...The US will set up a port on the Gaza coast for large ships carrying humanitarian supplies, the president confirmed in his State of the Union speech last night....

March 8, 2024

Toby Nangle

Singapore has lessons for countries worrying about debt

...The Singaporean state has been rewarded for absorbing market risk in the form of a dividend — worth over three percentage point of GDP — which is often large enough to flip increasingly persistent primary...

March 28, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

US presidential election 2024

Joe Biden set to lay out the choice facing US voters in race for the White House

...The speech is an opportunity for the president to shift perceptions that have pushed down his approval ratings and left him trailing Trump in polls of voters in the swing states that will decide November...

March 7, 2024

LexNatural gas

The worst of the gas glut is over for US drillers Premium

...Three regions produce 61 per cent of the country’s natural gas: Appalachia, the Permian and the Haynesville (mostly east Texas and Louisiana)....

April 8, 2024

Environment

‘Sacrifice zone’: booming US LNG sector leaves its mark on the Gulf

...Dozens other LNG projects have been proposed, most of them for them around the Texas-Louisiana border....

November 27, 2023

Gillian Tett

A rotten system for sovereign debt restructuring needs fixing

...Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code is a case in point. “Yet there is no comparable mechanism for the debts of sovereigns,” they continue....

March 7, 2024

News in-depthUK defence spending

Lack of logistic support for carriers lays bare state of British navy

...HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of the UK’s two state of the art aircraft carriers, is due to steam out of Portsmouth naval base on Sunday to become the naval centrepiece of one of Nato’s biggest military exercises...

February 2, 2024

NBC Universal Inc

NBC cuts ties with former Republican party chair McDaniel after backlash

...She is the granddaughter of the state’s former governor George Romney and niece of Utah senator Mitt Romney....

March 26, 2024

Climate legislation

Republican states step up legal threats to Biden’s climate agenda

...Sixteen red states including Texas, Louisiana and Florida also last month sued the federal government over its decision to freeze approvals for new export terminals for liquefied natural gas along the US...

April 12, 2024

Aveek Bhattacharya

The UK isn’t a nanny state — but for the sake of our health it should be

...With Starmer declaring that he is up for the fight when it comes to accusations he is promoting a nanny state, political commentators have been left trying to figure out where this surge of public health...

February 13, 2024

Correction

Correction: Office for Budget Responsibility

...The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that freezing fuel duty in the long run would cost the Treasury £6.3bn by the end of the decade, not more than £8bn as wrongly state in an article on...

March 19, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley

The easy dream of someone else’s dollars

...Nothing about the restraint of silver dollars from Mexico spared the city of New Orleans or the State of Louisiana from the pain of bank failures....

December 23, 2023

Robert Shrimsley

Mandates are overrated — Keir Starmer just needs the win

...It will have the scope to do the type of things electors expect of Labour governments — be it on the NHS, industrial strategy, workers rights or state intervention....

February 7, 2024

LexWeWork

Who would want to back Adam Neumann’s plan to save WeWork? Premium

...Neumann has plans to regain control of the company. The poor state of the commercial property market does not inspire much hope for a turnaround....

February 15, 2024

UK by-elections

Sunak faces tough by-election after MP Scott Benton quits

...electors by the end of the six-week petition period....

March 25, 2024

Gideon Rachman

Israel, Palestine and the mirage of a two-state solution

...If anyone has a better idea than two states for two peoples, the moment to come forward is now....

December 11, 2023

News updates from January 11: US inflation edges up more than expected, Chesapeake and Southwestern to combine in $7.4bn deal

Chesapeake and Southwestern to combine in $7.4bn deal to create the biggest US gas producer

...Chesapeake and Southwestern operate in proximity in the gas-rich Appalachia in the US north-east and the Haynesville shale basin in the state of Louisiana....

January 11, 2024

Frieze LA 2024

Artist wrongly convicted of murder wins Frieze Impact prize 2024

...This year’s award goes to LA-based Gary Tyler, who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1975 and spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary despite his sentence having been ruled unconstitutional...

February 24, 2024

The Big Read

The Japanese semiconductor deal spooking rivals and investors

...by a state-backed fund....

January 29, 2024

Oil & Gas industry

US energy security role in question as gas exports receive new scrutiny

...They want it to delay approval of Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana, which is next in line for a permit and one of the largest projects along the Gulf coast....

January 17, 2024

UK defence

UK aircraft carrier withdrawn from Nato exercise after propeller issue

...One of the UK’s two state-of-the-art aircraft carriers will not take part in the largest Nato exercise in Europe since the cold war after last-minute checks identified a problem with its propeller....

February 4, 2024

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