A proposed data-centre campus divided neighbours in Prince William County, Virginia. Their dispute set the terms for a national reckoning over American landscapes

A special summer issue of FT Weekend Magazine — it’s playtime!

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured: from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker

At the bottom of the pro-tennis hierarchy, players hustle for money and rankings, ‘like a gladiator fighting for your life’

Will soccer make the nation — and its president — proud to be American?

New York; Washington DC

For one group of dogged roboticists, artificial life that can reproduce itself is the future. The fact it doesn’t yet work only adds to the excitement

[FREE TO READ] The co-founder of America’s biggest predictions market on the ‘wisdom of the crowds’, political polarisation — and the company’s adviser, Donald Trump Jr

Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups

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Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump’s circle

Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US

[FREE TO READ] The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?

In praise of ‘PowerWash Simulator’, part ponderous game, part dreamlike state

‘Remarkably old-school’ method establishes supremacy of 1,045-word grid

Under threat from the Trump administration, the MTA’s high-tech nerve centre is focused on keeping the city moving

A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

The 21-year-old player on the cheating allegations that derailed his career — and his strategy for overcoming his rivals

In windowless labs in Colorado sit the 20 atomic clocks the world sets its watch by. They’re barely keeping up

F​rom Vegas to the black market, gambling companies have taken over sports. Inside a billion-dollar industry that could be on the bubble

[FREE TO READ] Small group of bettors lifts odds of Republican victory to 62 per cent on cryptocurrency-based Polymarket

Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game

When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

How four elk hunters and a ladder could reshape Wyoming’s chequered frontiers

Inside the fight over political betting, which remains a taboo in the US

The illicit trade routes responsible for the worst overdose crisis in US history

The artist uses geophone recordings to celebrate a world that is slipping away