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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signed waivers with three states on Tuesday, allowing them to prohibit participants of the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from buying junk food, like soda and candy, through the social welfare program. Arkansas, Idaho and Utah became the latest states to obtain waivers from the federal government to begin banning junk food within the federally administered, but state-operated, public assistance program that provides food stamps to low-income individuals. The three states have become the latest to obtain waivers from the Trump administration that allow states to restrict…

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said late Tuesday that he would deploy National Guard troops across the state, making him the first governor to do so as protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown spread across the United States.Mr. Abbott, a Republican and a vocal supporter of President Trump’s immigration agenda, said on social media that he would not tolerate violence as protests are planned in San Antonio on Wednesday.The protests that began in Los Angeles last Friday against federal immigration raids have spread to more than a dozen U.S. cities, including Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. While many…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A group of 15 Quebec car dealership coworkers in Trois-Rivières, Que., are now millionaires after winning the $20 million Lotto Max jackpot last week. The life-changing win was celebrated Tuesday when the group was officially awarded their cheque of $1.3 millionA statement from Loto-Québec said the winning ticket was purchased as part of a group play from Marché Express on rue de la Diversité in Les Chenaux.The retailer that sold the ticket will also receive a $200,000 bonus — 1 per cent of the total prize. Get breaking National news For news…

An 11th-hour offer from a defamed MP to partially defer an ousted state Liberal leader’s $2.3 million legal bill in exchange for guaranteed preselection has fallen over.Victorian Liberal Moira Deeming wrote to former opposition leader John Pesutto, his successor Brad Battin and Victorian Liberal president Philip Davis on Sunday with a series of demands to spare Mr Pesutto bankruptcy.Mr Pesutto was ordered to pay $2.3 million in legal costs to Mrs Deeming after the Federal Court found he defamed her by implying she was associated with neo-Nazis who gatecrashed a Melbourne rally she attended in 2023.A bankruptcy notice was served…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Fake NewsOn Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel, who’s based in Los Angeles, mocked the idea that protests against immigration raids have turned the city into “some kind of totalitarian hellscape” — a notion pushed by President Trump (and some cable news outlets) as he sent in Marines and the National Guard.“He wants there to be a war going on here, and he doesn’t care who gets hurt…

“I DON’T WANT WAR” When CNA visited the border area this week, checkpoints remained in place and military vehicles were common travelling on the roads around the area close to Chong Bok, where the deadly skirmish occurred on May 28. Locals in the Thai district of Nam Yuen in Ubon Ratchathani province told CNA that they are scared about the ongoing tensions. “I’m still afraid of bullets and bombs falling in this area,” said Yupin Pansena, a 54-year-old farmer. “I don’t want war. I want the government to negotiate and find a peaceful resolution. I want peace.” Boonsin Phadklang, Commander…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend provided the jury more insight into the rapper’s life outside his music mogul status when she returned to the witness stand Tuesday for cross-examination in his federal trial for sex crimes.Using a pseudonym, “Jane” testified that she broached the subject of rehab for the “Last Night” rapper after allegedly witnessing him “overdoing the partying.” She claimed he would offer her ecstasy before engaging in role play and that Diddy liked to use the words “voyeurism” and “escapism” to describe his fantasies of watching her participate in sexual encounters…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Famed American Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton addressed her recent DUI arrest for the first time Tuesday. Retton was arrested May 17 in West Virginia when police responded to reports of a car traveling “all over the roadway.” In a statement provided to Fox News Digital by Retton’s attorney, Edmund J. Rollo, the gold medalist admitted to driving under the influence and apologized. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” the statement said. “What happened was completely unacceptable. I make no excuses. To my family, friends and my fans: I have let you down,…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI’s generative AI tools. Most of the problems — 92% — were related to ChatGPT, the company’s generative AI chatbot, according to Downdetector.The widespread outage had persisted for about six hours as of around 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to OpenAI, which acknowledged in a statement on its site that it is “experiencing issues.”OpenAI…

The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada.This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin. Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, C3S said. The latest data comes amid mixed momentum on climate action globally, with China and the EU reducing emissions as the Trump administration and technology companies increase…