The State Senator

April 2, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Josh Shapiro warns Joe Biden gas stance could hurt election hopes

...“They’re beating the industry like a piñata,” said Camera Bartolotta, a Republican state senator from south-west Pennsylvania, a prolific shale-gas region....

April 7, 2024

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Chinese equities

Beijing’s ‘broker butcher’ sparks state-driven stock rally

...“When it comes to market regulation, the key Chinese characters are ‘strong’ and ‘severe’,” he said, in response to a question from state media....

March 9, 2024

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

US senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek re-election in 2024

...Kyrsten Sinema, one of the state’s senators, said she will not run for re-election this year, adding to the exodus of centrist lawmakers from the upper chamber of Congress....

March 5, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Tim Scott endorses Trump in blow to Nikki Haley

...Trump enjoys the public support of Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s Republican governor, and Lindsey Graham, the state’s other US senator....

January 20, 2024

Joe Lieberman

Joe Lieberman, senator who was Al Gore’s running mate, dies at 82

...Chris Murphy, the state’s current Democratic senator, wrote on X: “Connecticut is shocked by Senator Lieberman’s sudden passing. In an era of political carbon copies, Joe Lieberman was a singularity....

March 28, 2024

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News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies

Joe Lieberman, senator who was Al Gore’s running mate, dead at 82

...“Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life in the public interest,” they said....

March 27, 2024

News updates from March 28: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years; US GDP growth in Q4 revised higher

Joe Lieberman, senator who was Al Gore’s running mate, dies aged 82

...“Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life in the public interest,” they said....

March 27, 2024

News updates from March 5: China targets 5% GDP growth in 2024, Gold and Bitcoin hit record highs

US senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek re-election in 2024

...The Arizona senator’s decision comes after Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, also decided not to seek re-election....

March 5, 2024

News in-depthParaguay

The ex-leader, the bribery claims and the threat to Paraguay’s star economy

...Paraguay’s former president has been accused of orchestrating the expulsion of a prominent senator, as worries rise that the influence of the ex-leader sanctioned by the US for corruption is dragging down...

March 3, 2024

Banking & Savings

Latest National Savings & Investments rates

...Are you getting the best deal on your savings? Check the latest interest rates on National Savings & Investments accounts. See our coverage of the latest savings and investment issues....

April 19, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...Listed below are the polls that are currently used to calculate the polling averages....

April 23, 2024

US government shutdown

US senators reach deal on $1.2tn spending bill to avert government shutdown

...Say what you will, but they’re committed to open borders,” JD Vance, the Ohio senator close to Trump, wrote on X before the deal was reached....

March 23, 2024

Letter

Letter: IRS is right to avoid allure of unworkable tax schemes

...John BreauxFormer US Senator, Washington, DC, US...

February 16, 2024

Trade Secrets

The Manchinations of Senator Joe Premium

...A supposedly fiscally conservative Democratic senator in a coal-mining state that has twice backed Donald Trump by about 40 points in presidential elections, Manchin was persuaded by a carefully constructed...

November 13, 2023

FT Live

Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia

Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability

Robert Menendez

US prosecutors allege senator Bob Menendez took bribes to help Qatar

...He also supported a resolution favouring the Gulf state, a link to which Daibes had sent to the senator using the same encrypted app....

January 2, 2024

PGA Tour Inc.

US senator vows to fight on against Saudi influence over golf

...Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal welcomed a recent agreement for American sports magnates to inject $3bn into the PGA Tour’s commercial operations, and warned of intense scrutiny if the Saudi sovereign...

February 12, 2024

US Election Countdown

Opening salvos in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

...He’s tailoring his messaging to the state’s blue-collar workers by going after the president’s energy policies....

April 23, 2024

Argentine politics

Argentina’s Senate rejects Milei’s deregulation push

...Senators voted 42 to 25 to reject the decree, with four abstentions....

March 14, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....

April 23, 2024

News updates from December 5: Moody’s cuts China’s credit outlook, Germany’s Dax closes at record high

US senator drops months-long hold on military promotions

...US senator Tommy Tuberville has released his months-long hold on military promotions, failing to secure changes in Pentagon abortion policy....

December 5, 2023

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Texas Democrats vie for chance to take out Ted Cruz

...He is trailed by state senator Roland Gutierrez, a more progressive leaning state senator, who has gained prominence as a vocal advocate of gun control since the 2022 Uvalde school shooting....

March 5, 2024

US Election Countdown

The next phase in the US election

...But first, we’ll hear from Biden in his State of the Union address later this evening. More on that below....

March 7, 2024

FT readers respond

FT readers respond: UK ‘pothole crisis’

...In the lead-up to the 1992 US presidential race between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, strategist James Carville famously quipped “It’s the economy, stupid.”...

April 24, 2024

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Progressives do well in Minnesota but Biden still beat Sanders last time

...Minnesota has a history of high turnout and progressive politics, as one might guess of a state where the official moniker of one of the parties is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party....

March 5, 2024

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