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A woman walks past a billboard featuring an image of the late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamene. Tehran, Iran. Majid Asgaripour/WANA via REUTERS/File Photo
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- President Donald Trump's approval rating sank to the lowest level of his current term, as Americans increasingly soured on his handling of the cost of living and an unpopular war, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
- The US president has suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in his battles with the American media, but the rulings have done little to blunt a broader campaign of pressure and retaliation that extends beyond the press.
- The US State Department said it would produce a limited number of commemorative passports bearing Trump's portrait, the latest example of the administration attaching the president's likeness or name to official property.
- Britain's King Charles told the US Congress that despite an age of uncertainty and conflict in Europe and the Middle East, the UK and the US will always be staunch allies united in defending democracy, at a time of deep divisions between the two long-time allies.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision last month to let the British military board ships of Russia’s so‑called "shadow fleet" has had no clear impact on the number passing through UK waters, a Reuters analysis shows.
- Argentine President Javier Milei, a libertarian who has long cited former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as one of his political role models, has recently sharpened his public tone on the Falkland Islands, a contrast from the moderate approach he has previously adopted as he's sought closer ties with the West.
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USDA rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead |
Farmer Susan Watkins checks her newly planted soybeans after a frost in Sutherland, Virginia. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the US Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
From the Pentagon to the US Department of Education, the Trump administration has vowed to root out policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, from every layer of government.
Normally, soy farmers pick their representatives and the USDA signs off. This time, the USDA rejected at least five of the farmers selected for the United Soybean Board, including four women. It did not give any reason, according to three of the women.
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Brown lava rock from the youngest eruption on Methana is seen extending into the sea. Greece. Razvan-Gabriel Popa/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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For people living in communities in the shadow of a volcano, a long silence may give the impression that the geological beast is not merely sleeping but has gone extinct. But, as research detailing the life history of one in Greece shows, a volcano can slumber for more than 100,000 years before reawakening.
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