Washington tangos with another government shutdown
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration’s financial regulator is preparing to change five decades of corporate reporting practice, and the US government is once again on the brink of a shutdown. Plus, Denmark is closing its airspace to drones after a series of incursions, and drive-throughs are the latest craze sweeping the coffee world.
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Let the market decide how often companies report
Trump to meet lawmakers with government shutdown days away
Denmark bans civil drones for a week after sightings over military bases
The rise of drive-through US coffee chains with a need for speed
Why Japan is sprucing up its shabby offices
Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Ethan Plotkin, Victoria Craig, Katya Kumkova, Sonja Hutson, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Alexander Higgins and Peter Barber. The FT’s acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:29.2 | UK. |
| 0:33.5 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, September 29th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:41.0 | Negotiations to prevent a U.S. government shutdown are coming down to the wire, |
| 0:45.2 | and Denmark is temporarily banning drones after airspace violations it says it hasn't seen since World War II. |
| 0:53.3 | Plus, Americans have a need for speed, |
| 0:56.0 | even when it comes to our morning coffee fix. |
| 0:58.9 | You've got these drive-through outfits |
| 1:00.9 | that in many cases have no chairs at all. |
| 1:03.8 | You are not welcome to sit there, |
| 1:05.4 | and they're growing by leaps and bounds. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Victoria Craig, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:10.8 | Music and bounce. I'm Victoria Craig, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:24.5 | Wall Street's top watchdog is fast-tracking President Trump's plan to end mandatory quarterly earnings reports for U.S. companies. Writing for the Financial Times |
| 1:28.3 | today, Paul Atkins, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said the government |
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