KJ Edelman
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KJ Edelman
@kjedelman.ft.com
Newsletter editor & audience journalist @financialtimes.com. Formerly ABC News & The Charlotte Observer.
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Breaking news: Giorgio Armani, the visionary Italian designer and founder of the world’s largest private luxury brand, has died aged 91 on.ft.com/46kDPgd
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...
June 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Big KJ news: Scientists in the US have performed the first personalised gene therapy on a child known as KJ with a life-threatening rare disease www.ft.com/content/a5f5...
Scientists give pioneering gene therapy to infant patient
Child suffering from rare liver disease shows improved health after treatment
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May 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Donald Trump’s executive order on undersea minerals has encouraged mining companies — but critics say it will damage the environment and struggle to make money. www.ft.com/content/a09e...
May 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the new pope to lead the world’s 1.4bn Catholics. www.ft.com/content/0983...
May 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Breaking news: The Federal Reserve has kept US interest rates on hold for the third meeting in a row, as officials highlighted growing concerns that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will trigger a fresh burst of inflation and weaken the jobs market. www.ft.com/content/a62a...
May 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Breaking news: Donald Trump’s 'reciprocal' tariffs convulsed global markets on Thursday, with sectors from banking to tech left reeling from the US president’s bid to remake the global economic order. www.ft.com/content/e740...
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Mark Carney vowed that there would be a 'broad renegotiation' of the trade agreement between Canada and the US, as his country aims to reshape its economy and seek 'reliable' trading partners. www.ft.com/content/6e09...
March 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Trump said Zelenskyy is ‘not winning this’ and cautioned the Ukrainian president that if he didn’t have US military equipment the war would have been over in two weeks.

Follow live updates: www.ft.com/content/c69b...
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A federal judge has barred the US Treasury from handing data from its payments system to outsiders, in an early legal blow to Elon Musk’s crusade to slash government spending. www.ft.com/content/097b...
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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'A confident Democratic Party would ask, “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.' My column. on.ft.com/3WK5gLe
While Democrats sleep
[FREE TO READ] As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond
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February 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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A small Chinese artificial intelligence lab, DeepSeek, stunned the world by revealing the technical recipe for its cutting-edge model, turning its reclusive leader into a national hero.

Find out how the start-up shocked Silicon Valley: on.ft.com/4jvooqi
January 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Breaking news: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal to halt the war in Gaza and free the remaining hostages, raising hopes of an end to the bloodiest round of fighting in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s history www.ft.com/content/e35b...
January 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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FT Exclusive: Internal memos seen by the Financial Times said that Meta would 'suppress detections' based on how much an advertiser spent on the platform, and that some top advertisers would instead be reviewed by humans. www.ft.com/content/9255...
January 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president who later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, was the longest-living president in US history, having celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1. www.ft.com/content/fcb8...
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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The October floods in Valencia were of a magnitude expected only once every 3,000-5,000 years, and claimed the lives of over 200 people.

Political leaders, on the day and over the decades, failed to pay attention to the warning signs — or issue them as the waters surged. www.ft.com/content/6199...
Valencia floods: the scandal of a disaster foretold
Political leaders, on the day and over the decades, failed to heed warnings — or issue them as the waters surged
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December 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Breaking news: The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point but signalled a slower pace of easing next year as it seeks to bring inflation fully under control. www.ft.com/content/500f...
December 18, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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The decision by Fifa marks Saudi Arabia’s most significant achievement to date in its push for a seat at the top table of global sport. www.ft.com/content/fcc6...
December 11, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Of Nato’s 32 members, 23 will reach the existing 2% target this year, up from six in 2018. But seven European members still fail to meet the benchmark agreed a decade ago. www.ft.com/content/c494...
December 12, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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NEW

A short guide to Syria’s long war

Assad’s fall concludes an arc in the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that reshaped the region

How the history of a country at the strategic heart of the Middle East links to today's extraordinary events

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A short guide to Syria’s long war
Assad’s fall concludes the arc of ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that reshaped the region
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December 8, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM