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USDA: Weather delay cuts corn crop to smallest in 4 years

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lowered its estimate of this year's corn crop to the lowest in four years, saying wet weather has delayed planting and reduced acres planted and the expected per-acre yield.

The Latest: Companies respond to suit over Grenfell fire

The Latest on a lawsuit filed in the United States over a 2017 London high-rise fire that killed 72 (all times local): 2 p.m. Two of the companies that are being sued by victims of a London high-rise fire that killed 72 have released statements expressing their "deepest sympathies" to those affected.

Is Beyond Meat overcooked?

The price for a share of Beyond Meat almost tripled on the first day of trading in May and that was just a taste of what was to come.

Japan premier hopes to ease US-Iran tensions in Tehran visit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Tehran represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran as the country appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers that America earlier abandoned.