The Coca-Cola Co. is launching a new Coke product this fall made with U.S.-grown cane sugar, Axios' Ben Berkowitz reports.

• The move follows President Trump's statement on social media that the company would use sugar, rather than high fructose corn syrup, in its sodas.

🤷 That surprise "announcement" led to confusion about the company's plans, with farm groups warning a full switch could cost thousands of U.S. jobs.

• Today's statement makes clear Coke will launch a new product, rather than replace corn syrup in its existing line.
• The company hasn't announced specific timing or branding.

U.S. consumers have long been able to get various forms of cane sugar Coke.

• 🇲🇽 "Mexican Coke," made with cane sugar and imported from Mexico, has long been popular in U.S. restaurants and stores, and is sold by Costco.
• ✡️ The company also uses cane sugar in its annual runs of a kosher product often called "Passover Coke."

💬 Ben's thought bubble: Coke's response to Trump may end up as a road map for other companies in similar circumstances.

• Publicly put on the spot by the president in a costly way that would fundamentally change a beloved product, Coke simply pivoted to making more of what it was already making and slapping a new name on it.
• A brief crisis could turn into a marketing and political win.

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The push by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overhaul government health programs is extending to the troubled organ donation system, Axios' Maya Goldman reports.

• Kennedy is latching onto dozens of instances in which organ removal was reportedly started while donors still showed signs of life.

🏥 HHS says it found evidence of systemic patient safety issues at a Kentucky organ procurement organization called Network for Hope.

• 😷 The organization came under fire last year following reports that staff pressured doctors to move forward with removing organs after patients appeared to be regaining consciousness.
• Network for Hope, which serves Kentucky, southwest Ohio and part of West Virginia, told Axios that patient safety is its top priority and that it looks forward to working collaboratively with HHS.

💬 Kennedy said: "The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor's life is treated with the sanctity it deserves."

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1. 📬 The U.S. Postal Service is marking its 250th anniversary with two new stamp releases, including a "meticulously illustrated pane of 20 interconnected stamps" showing a postal worker's day. Go deeper.
2. 🗞️ The Washington Post announced sweeping changes to its "third newsroom," called WP Ventures, that puts the unit under a commercial leader and separates it from its core news brand, Axios' Sara Fischer reports.
3. 📉 Americans' faith in Social Security is waning, even as a growing share see it as a vital government program, new AARP polling finds. Go deeper.
4. 📻 NPR editor-in-chief Edith Chapin announced she's stepping down, days after Congress stripped federal funding for public media. Go deeper.

Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" and Black Sabbath front man, died at 76 today.

• "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning," a family statement says. "He was with his family and surrounded by love."

🎸 Osbourne's death comes just weeks after a farewell charity show during which he was honored by some of heavy metal's other greatest performers, including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.

• 🎤 Unable to walk due to Parkinson's disease, Ozzy performed some of Black Sabbath's greatest hits while seated on a throne adorned with a giant bat — a callback to a 1982 Des Moines concert when he bit the head off a dead bat thrown on stage.

🤘🏻 The show both reflected and cemented Osbourne's status as the godfather of heavy metal, with Sabbath pioneering the genre in the 1970s.

• 📺 Younger fans might better remember him for "The Osbournes," a hit MTV reality show about his family life from the early 2000s.

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