A sequence of ‘shocking’ mistakes allowed an armed man to nearly assassinate Donald Trump. Our latest visual investigation looks at the critical questions the US Secret Service will have to answer: ft.com/content/9acf8e…

NEW: How private equity tangled banks in debt. Our visual story tackles GPs, LPs, subscription lines and more, using a network diagram to reveal the layers of leverage worrying regulators. W/ Ortenca Aliaj Sam Learner Irene de la Torre Arenas Kaye Wiggins William Louch ig.ft.com/private-equity/

If you have even a passing interest in “leverage on leverage” (or want to know what that the heck that means) this is an absolute must-read Private equity’s use of Other People’s Money has become increasingly baroque. The FT maps out the dark corners and crevices here 👇🏻

This newsletter is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

In the past year alone, both the men’s and women’s marathon world records have been shattered with the help of the latest footwear innovations. What makes these shoes so fast? on.ft.com/4d0jxJP

Super Shoes showdown at the Paris Olympics! Team Financial Times deconstructed the world record-setting running shoes from Nike and Adidas to analyze what makes them work, speaking to engineers and experts. Our visual story: ig.ft.com/running-shoe/ Sam Joiner Dan Clark Irene de la Torre Arenas

When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it. Exquisite piece of writing by the brilliant Oliver Roeder ft.com/content/0f2dce…

Russian forces have made swift & significant territorial gains in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks—capturing almost double the amount of land liberated by Ukraine in 2023—taking advantage of Kyiv’s shortages & blunders. “Our defences are showing cracks.” on.ft.com/3AnIpg9

NEW: How accounting techniques hide the true surge in Big Tech's emissions and how Amazon Meta + Google are trying to shape a rewrite of emissions reporting rules with Kenza Bryan + Camilla Hodgson on.ft.com/3M9FRF2

NEW: European boats supplying the continent’s shops and restaurants are taking African flags to fish in ways off limits to EU boats Just as local fishermen blame foreign boats for their loss of livelihoods and need to migrate to… the EU W/Aanu Adeoye ig.ft.com/eu-fishing/

New: The EU boats fishing under a veil of secrecy. Alexandra Heal and Aanu Adeoye expose the murkiness surrounding European vessels that register with foreign fleets and exploit local fishing laws. W/ Dan Clark Chris Campbell Caroline Nevitt ig.ft.com/eu-fishing/

Excellent spot by the brilliant Peter Andringa - Harris has spent 10 times as much as Trump on digital ads since becoming the Dem’s candidate, a sign the campaigns are diverging in tactics. Story w/ @arogdc and Sam Learner ft.com/content/691eda…

This weekend's @ftmag cover is a remarkable story I've been wanting to read for more than a decade. It's about the unsolved killing of one of Italy's greatest artists, beautifully written and meticulously reported by Marianna Giusti ft.com/content/c42a46…

NEW: Ten days that turned the tables on Russia. The story of how Ukraine invaded its invader and changed the narrative of the war. By Christopher Miller Anastasia Stognei and the visual storytelling team. ig.ft.com/ukraine-incurs…

Ten days that turned the tables on Russia How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader. My weekend long-read on Kyiv’s Kursk operation, with Anastasia Stognei and Financial Times’s excellent Visual Storytelling Team. ig.ft.com/ukraine-incurs…

Ten days that turned the tables on Russia — and humiliated Putin. Fabulous work by the whole team on this visual examination of Ukraine’s spectacular incursion