During an hour-long speech in a packed Mother Lode Theatre, Pete Buttigieg made a rousing plea to ban corporate money from Montana politics while repeatedly sidestepping talk of a 2028 presidential run. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. transportation secretary drew cheers from the audience of 1,200 in Butte as he suggested that special interests and corporate spending in campaigns had drowned out the concerns of average voters.

As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of kicking butt and taking names, I’m celebrating that we aren't kicking something else: soccer balls.

The WasteBar food truck hopes the eye-catching deal will change people’s attitude to waste in the Netherlands Using cigarette butts to buy buttery Dutch pancakes? That is the deal one food truck is offering at festivals in the Netherlands as a way to get people thinking about litter. Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic waste in the world, with more than 4.5tn butts produced every year.

The national team at the event will be led by Emad Shakeel Butt