Jeff CarlisleMay 22, 2025, 04:11 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. In March, after dropping two home games in the Concacaf Nations League to Panama and Canada, the assessment of the U.S. men’s national team was that things couldn’t get much worse. That came nine months […]
May 23, 2025, 05:47 PM ET Scott McTominay proved there’s plenty of life after Manchester United, after ending his first season since leaving Old Trafford with a Serie A title and the league’s MVP award. The Scotland midfielder crowned a sensational debut season in Italy with the crucial opening goal in Napoli’s 2-0 win over […]
Sebastia, occupied West Bank – Israel calls it an archaeological project to highlight Jewish heritage and create a new Israeli national park. Palestinians see it as further evidence of Israel’s plans to annex an ancient town and erase Palestinian history in an area that tells the 5,000-year-old shared story of the peoples who have lived […]
Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Cara Hallinan Cara is stockpiling ahead of the ban and says she is hoping to buy enough disposable vapes to last her through the summer Cara Hallinan says she and many of her friends are feeling very nervous about the looming disposable vape ban. In fact, she says: “I’m […]
President Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Friday en route to New Jersey for the weekend. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has ordered massive cuts to the White House National Security Council, sending […]
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, speaks at a press briefing during President Trump’s first term, in 2019. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP The White House budget office on Friday rejected the conclusion of a nonpartisan congressional watchdog that said the Trump administration is breaking the […]
The imposing Atatürk Olympic Stadium was not the most conventional setting for a miracle. Commissioned in aid of Turkey’s ultimately unsuccessful bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the venue had long seemed destined never to fulfill its potential. But on a scorching Istanbul night on May 25, 2005, the ground played host to one […]
Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images US President Donald Trump has said he is recommending a 50% tariff on all goods from the European Union being imported to the United States. “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!” he wrote in a post on social media on Friday. He said the new tariffs […]
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez May 23, 2025, 05:24 AM ET Carlo Ancelotti will leave Real Madrid after this weekend’s final game of the LaLiga season, the club has confirmed. Ancelotti’s position at Madrid has come under growing pressure, with the club ending the season without a major trophy for the first time since 2021. Earlier […]
East African rights groups condemn Tanzania, saying human right activists ‘abandoned’ at border show signs of torture. A Ugandan human rights activist, arrested in Tanzania after travelling to the country to support an opposition politician at a trial for treason, has been tortured and dumped at the border, according to an NGO. Ugandan rights group […]