Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News town hall at the Greenville Convention Center on February 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Donald Trump is racing to stave off a pair of civil penalties totaling nearly $540 million — without having to first put
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Professional sports-hungry Utah is hoping to entice baseball and hockey to come to Salt Lake City with bills state lawmakers passed last week that authorize bond issuance for stadiums. House Bill 562 allows up to $900 million in financing to cover half the cost of a Major League Baseball stadium within a Fairpark Area Investment
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Shares in Tesla dropped more than 7 per cent on Monday after shipments from the electric-car maker’s China factory hit a 14-month low in February, amid disruption from the lunar new year and a price war. Tesla delivered 60,365 cars from its plant in Shanghai last month, the lowest since December 2022, preliminary figures from
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution Two weeks ago, Republican US senator JD Vance told an audience at the Munich Security Conference that “the time has come for Europe
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Global exports from Kentucky rose 16.6% year-over-year to a record high of $40.2 billion in 2023, as more products made in the Bluegrass State were shipped around the world. Aerospace products and parts led the state’s exports by category in 2023, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division and WISERTrade.
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Attorneys for shareholders who defeated Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package have asked a Delaware state court to award them shares in the electric vehicle maker worth nearly $6bn as payment. In a filing with
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging the ChatGPT-maker’s multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft has compromised the start-up’s original mission of building artificial intelligence systems for the benefit
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A wave of tax cuts that states passed amid COVID-related surpluses may prove a financial problem for the medium and long term, analysts said Thursday. “The examination of states’ post-pandemic fiscal trajectories reveals a concerning trend: revenue growth has decelerated in many states and the implementation of permanent tax cuts could leave some with depleted
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Vladimir Putin has said that western support for Ukraine risks triggering a global war, in his most explicit threat to use nuclear weapons since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
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The Biden administration is expected to announce a $1.5 billion federal loan to repower a shuttered Michigan nuclear plant, marking a first for the U.S. as the administration’s seeks to move the country toward 100% carbon-free power in the coming decades. The Palisades power plant in southwest Michigan, owned now by Holtec International, was decommissioned
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