Gerrymandered America
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana vs Callais puts US democracy in question
Russian missiles in deadly strike were built with western parts, says Ukraine
Images of debris from attack on Kyiv apartment block that killed at least 24 suggest Kh-101 missile was used
Boeing shares slide as Trump’s China summit deals disappoint
US president says Beijing will expand agriculture and oil purchases
BoE’s Pill votes for a free return path back to earth
Although admits the crew might perish
Labour’s faultlines are back with a vengeance
The past few weeks have exposed the cracks that Starmer has spent two years trying to paper over
Trump undecided on Taiwan arms sale after summit with Xi
US president raises doubts about $14bn weapons package for Taipei after two days of meetings in China
FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 793
Britain’s padel boom attracts converts — and cowboys
Planning restrictions have served as a brake on faster growth for the sport
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
FT Weekend Quiz: en brochette, Ben Solo and Slow Horses
The best books of the week
From the building of America to Weimar Germany and life in the Georgian era. Plus Erica Wagner’s Brooklyn Bridge novel, Tahmina Anam’s Bangladeshi fable — and Suzi Feay’s pick of poetry
Trump’s disclosure shows hundreds of millions of dollars in US securities traded in first quarter
Transactions relating to companies including Nvidia, Palantir, Paramount and Boeing listed in disclosures
W1A creator John Morton’s debut play Eclipse is a quiet triumph
A pair of siblings care for their dying father in this precise and devastating work at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre
‘It all flows from Trump’: Brendan Carr, US broadcast media watchdog
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission on making the agency more ‘aggressive’, his fight with Disney — and playing golf with the president
Is the only way really down for stocks?
Market concentration means the majority of equities have room to rise
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunite in imaginatively eerie Met opera debut
In ‘El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego’, Gabriela Lena Frank vividly blends Mexican mythology with magical realism
The dawn of 24/7 solar power
Falling battery costs drive the economics of round-the-clock renewables
WallStreetBets versus the SEC
‘If quarterly reporting is crushing American capitalism, American capitalism is hiding it well’
A first look at the reopened Benton End garden
The Suffolk garden of painter Cedric Morris was a plantsman’s paradise and a heady crucible for artistic luminaries. After four decades, it has been coaxed back to life in the horticultural event of the year
Word Circle Number 109
Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa — a seance at the asylum
In this richly evocative and affecting history, a narrator becomes obsessed by the long-dead inmates of an Irish mental hospital
Mini Crossword Number 109
Binary Puzzle Number 109
The folk singer whose voice was stolen by AI — and how she fought back
After a fake album was released in her name, Emily Portman has returned with an intensely human new release