Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.French authorities think far-left groups could have been behind a mass sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail lines on the day of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, as France remained on guard…

Donald Trump has agreed to sit for a victim interview with the FBI, which is investigating this month’s attempted assassination, an agency official said Monday. Victim interviews are a routine part of criminal investigations, but are voluntary. “The interview of the former president will be consistent with any other victim…

An increasingly popular way to avoid probate and other estate planning issues is the transfer on death or payable on death account. There can be more to these accounts, which I’ll refer to as TODs, than many people realize. Most financial institutions now have a specific form that is completed…

Sellers are pricing their homes at record-high prices, but buyers aren’t biting. High interest rates and high listing prices are keeping buyers away. This does mean that the buyers who are still looking have some wiggle room they haven’t had in the last few years. Pending home sales fell by…

Meredith Swanson has been nannying in New York City for more than a decade — but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that the job helped her go viral on TikTok. On July 1, the 33-year-old posted a 90-second clip on her account @meredithgswanson walking people through a day in…

Marvel is back on top.”Deadpool & Wolverine” shattered box office records this weekend, tallying $205 million in domestic ticket sales during its opening, the highest debut of 2024 and of an R-rated film ever.The film outpaced analysts’ expectations, which called for an opening haul between $160 million and $180 million.”The…

Inflation looks vastly different between these two beachside metropolises. The pace of home construction has been a deciding factor for both regions. The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater region in Florida recently saw the lowest inflation rate among 23 metropolitan areas across the country — 1.8% in the 12 months that ended in…

Thesis iShares Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ:IBB) is a fund created by BlackRock, Inc (BLK). The fund accounts for 214 holdings, and aims to mimic the performance of the NYSE Biotechnology Index. During 2020 and 2021, biotechnology companies experienced what in my opinion was an overly optimistic bullish cycle, given that during…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has officially endorsed reformist politician Masoud Pezeshkian as the country’s next president.Khamenei’s endorsement at a ceremony attended by high-ranking officials, politicians and diplomats on Sunday allows…

Former President Donald Trump has revived his four-year-old false claim about how he and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz handled the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Walz is among the Democrats whom sources say Vice President Kamala Harris is considering as a potential…