Canada has pledged to spend $1bn on border security, and has recently deployed newly leased Black Hawk patrol helicopters, extra dogs and 60 drones at the border partly in response to Trump’s demands — as well as concerns about weapons and undocumented migrants arriving from the US.

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets

“Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities.” It also directed federal agencies to put political appointees in charge of ensuring that grants “conform to Administration priorities”.

But they warn that, if that fails, Iran is on a collision course with the west. European powers that opposed Trump’s maximum pressure during his first term have become more angry with Iran’s behaviour, including the continued expansion of its nuclear activity, its arms sales to Russia and its alleged targeting of citizens in the west.

President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis

Key Fed decision: The central bank’s expected decision today is the first following Trump’s return to office, which has been marked by a flurry of executive orders as the US president seeks to impose his agenda on Washington.

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude interceptors if the lasers fail.

President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom will be thwarted by Wall Street’s reluctance to approve another drilling binge, shale bosses have warned.

Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister, according to senior European officials.

Star presenters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von have monetised the ‘manosphere’ and influenced politics. Will traditional media be next?

But investors in the country’s economy have their concerns – and now there’s a new threat on the horizon: US President Donald Trump. The FT’s Mexico and Central America correspondent Christine Murray explains how Sheinbaum will navigate the nation’s economic path forward.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has put more than $300bn of potential federal infrastructure funding at risk, US investors said, as they grappled with the scale of his move to unpick Joe Biden’s climate agenda.