The white puff of cotton blooms cover Missouri's Bootheel at harvest, filling both tiny planter boxes outside a Super 8 motel's front door and nearby thousand-acre spreads. "Thank goodness they're able to do it," a radio deejay reminds listeners as farmers take their ...

Electricite de France SA could potentially recover some euro1.2 billion after it won a European Union court challenge Tuesday that said EU regulators were wrong to order the company to repay tax relief to the French government. The ruling from the EU's general ...

Many of the millions of unemployed workers and dependents who received federal subsidies to help pay for health care coverage have lost those subsidies and are joining the ranks of the uninsured. According to a report by the health care advocacy group Families USA, the subsidies --which were started last March ...

LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - A draft G20 commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies in the "medium-term," pushed by U.S. President Barack Obama, could be a step to help a new U.N. climate deal in December. The Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh planned to agree on Friday to phase out subsidies on oil, gas and coal, and so curb ...