Jeff CarlisleMay 1, 2025, 06:51 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Chicago Fire FC is in talks with Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne on a designated player contract, a source confirmed to ESPN, and look to have the inside track to sign the Belgium playmaker […]
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 7 p.m. ET for parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Damaging winds, hail and strong storms are all possible with this system. CLEVELAND – A deadly stretch of severe weather continued for a ninth-straight day on Thursday, with communities along a 1,500-mile swath of the […]
Tom Burgess BBC News, North East and Cumbria Niki Cotson More than 700 people have signed Niki’s petition to have the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust put into special measures A mum who says she has been left in chronic pain a year after giving birth has called for an NHS trust to be […]
India’s human rights body is investigating reports that more than 100 children fell ill from eating a school lunch after a dead snake was found in the food. The cook reportedly still served the lunch despite removing the dead animal from it, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement. The commission said […]
Harry Maguire has welcomed his new Brazilian-inspired nickname after the centre-back’s unexpected trickery on the wing helped put Manchester United on course for a stunning 3-0 win at Athletic Club in the first leg oft their Europa League semifinal. Maguire found himself in unfamiliar territory out on the right wing but looked right at home […]
Social media campaign depicts fictional scenes of officials becoming disillusioned with ruling Chinese Communist Party. The CIA has launched a Chinese-language social media campaign calling on government officials in China to switch sides and leak secrets to the United States. The two videos released on Thursday depict fictional scenes involving Chinese officials who approach the […]
Manuel Caceres, the drum-pounding Spanish football superfan known worldwide as “Manolo el del Bombo”, died on Thursday at the age of 76, silencing the rhythmic heartbeat that had accompanied Spain national team for over four decades. With his trademark oversized Basque beret and red number 12 shirt, Caceres became as much a fixture at Spanish […]
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Reporting fromKarlsruhe, Germany Watch: Moment lynx is released in Newquay A lynx born in a zoo in Cornwall could become the first UK zoo-born cat to be successfully released into the wild. Animals born and raised in zoos are rarely considered for release because they either don’t have the survival […]
Goals from Jadon Sancho and Noni Madueke and a brace from Nicolas Jackson gave Chelsea a comfortable 4-1 win over Swedish side Djurgården on a tricky artificial pitch in the first leg of their Conference League semifinal on Thursday. Sancho opened the scoring in the 12th minute, taking possession just outside the six-yard box before […]
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Joyce Brown’s New York minute lasted longer than most. A onetime secretary, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began camping on a heating grate on Second Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan. […]