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This article was produced in partnership with FloodlightFor decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size of Montana…

Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan coal-fired power plant online has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far, according…

On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Partha Dasgupta Witness (2025)An economist might celebrate a nation achieving record economic growth on one day,…

Reeves accused of ‘rattling the markets’ after income tax U-turn pushes up borrowing costsGood morning. On Monday last week Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, gave a speech…

Global auto manufacturing is pressured by tariffs, reshoring and higher labor costs, with skill shortages pushing factories to find new efficiencies. Industrial robots already dominate welding,…

It is the $1.4tn (£1.1tn) question. How can a loss-making startup such as OpenAI afford such a staggering spending commitment?Answer that positively and it will go…

Home-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThree more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over ‘dishonest’ behaviourThree more members of Reform’s…

Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found.Users of gas have been among the biggest…

Congressional Democrats are introducing a bill that would provide childcare relief to federal workers affected by the shutdown of the federal government, as it drags on…