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U.S.D.A. Approves Soda Ban for Food Stamps in Nebraska

The Trump administration approved a first of its kind waiver for Nebraska, allowing a ban on soda purchases through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, starting next year.

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins at the White House in May.
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Chip Roy, Demanding More Spending Cuts, Reprises Role as Ringleader of G.O.P. Rebels

The Texas Republican is leading the conservative revolt against what his party calls its “big, beautiful bill.” Whether he will dig in or relent could determine the measure’s fate.

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Representative Chip Roy of Texas is negotiating with House Speaker Mike Johnson and White House aides over the contents of what his party has called the “one big, beautiful bill.”
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Trump Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System

The project has been a priority for President Trump since he took office, having promised during the campaign to build a defense system against foreign threats similar to Israel’s Iron Dome.

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President Trump promised during the campaign to build an air defense system similar to Israel’s Iron Dome, that can intercept rockets and missiles.
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Pacific must not become a ‘military zone’ amid rise of China, New Zealand’s deputy PM warns

In an interview with the Guardian, Winston Peters says the world faces the ‘most uncertain time’ in 80 years ahead of talks with Australia's foreign minister

The Pacific must be protected from becoming a military zone amid China’s growing push for influence in the region, New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters has warned ahead of a meeting with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong.

Peters, who is New Zealand’s deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister, told the Guardian that his country has a good relationship with China.

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© Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/The Guardian

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‘Without time, there is no flavour’: a South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

Ki Soon-do’s soy sauce has been served to Donald Trump and gained Unesco heritage protection. It is recognition that is 370 years in the making

In the lush foothills of Damyang county, South Jeolla province, rows of earthenware jars stand under the Korean sky. Inside each clay vessel, a quiet transformation is taking place, one that has been occurring on this land for centuries.

This is the domain of Ki Soon-do, South Korea’s sole grand master of traditional aged soy sauce, where patience isn’t just a virtue but the essential ingredient in her craft.

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© Photograph: The Guardian

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Watchdog urges Scotland to take action after repeatedly missing climate targets

Climate Change Committee says original goal of a 75% emissions cut by 2030 will now be delayed by up to six years

The UK’s climate watchdog has warned that Scotland needs to take “immediate action at pace and scale” to cut its emissions after ministers axed a series of policy pledges.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC), an official advisory body, said ministers in Edinburgh needed to take urgent action to curb emissions from buildings and transport to cut Scotland’s overall emissions to nearly zero by 2045.

Abandoned a target to cut car miles by 20% by 2030.

Dropped a pledge to rapidly decarbonise homes by mandating low-carbon heating systems.

Cut funding for tree planting.

Missed targets to restore degraded peatland.

Ignored calls for a plan to cut meat and dairy consumption, and failed to use their powers to tax air travel more heavily.

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© Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

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Half a billion young people will be obese or overweight by 2030, report finds

Health of adolescents worldwide has reached a ‘tipping point’, authors of Lancet commission analysis warn

Almost half a billion adolescents worldwide will be living with obesity or overweight and 1 billion at risk of preventable ill health by 2030, according to an international report.

While adolescent mortality has declined by more than a quarter over the past two decades, comprehensive analysis of global data calculated that in five years, at least half of the world’s 10- to 24-year-olds will be living in countries where preventable health problems such as HIV/Aids, early pregnancy, depression and poor nutrition pose a “daily threat to their health, wellbeing and life chance”. Young people’s health has reached a “tipping point”, the authors warned.

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© Photograph: Peter Lopeman/Alamy

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Google’s unveils ‘AI Mode’ in the next phase of its journey to change search

Search engine revamp and Gemini 2.5 introduced at conference in latest showing tech giant is all in on AI

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to other websites.

The next phase outlined at Google’s annual developers conference includes releasing a new “AI mode” option in the United States. The company says the feature will make interacting with its search engine more like having a conversation with an expert capable of answering a wide array of questions.

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© Photograph: Camille Cohen/AFP/Getty Images

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