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Alex KirklandRodrigo FaezMay 10, 2025, 10:13 AM ETCarlo Ancelotti said Xabi Alonso has “all doors open” as he leaves Bayer Leverkusen, praising the “fantastic job” the man expected to replace him at Real Madrid has done with the Bundesliga side.Alonso confirmed on Friday that he will be leaving Leverkusen at the end of this season after almost three years in charge, with a source telling ESPN the Spanish coach is “close” to becoming Ancelotti’s successor at Madrid.Ancelotti is expected to leave after Madrid’s last LaLiga game of the season, against Real Sociedad the weekend of May 25, although the team…

U.S. President Donald Trump announces the NFL draft will be held in Washington, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 5, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersAs negotiations ramp up for President Donald Trump’s tax agenda, there are key issues to watch, according to policy experts.   The House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees taxes, released a preliminary partial text of its portion of the bill on Friday evening. However, the bill could change significantly before the final vote. The full committee will debate and advance this legislation on Tuesday.With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republican…

ROME (AP) — Koyo Kouoh, the curator of the 2026 Venice Art Biennale, has died at age 58, her home institution in South Africa said in an Instagram post Saturday.The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in South Africa confirmed her passing overnight but gave no cause of death. The Biennale said Saturday it was “deeply saddened and dismayed” to learn of her death.Kouoh was the first African woman tapped to helm the Venice Biennale. Born in Cameroon in 1967, she was tapped to curate the 2026 edition of the Biennale in December. A leading figure in…

Many people tried to predict who the new pope would be, even putting money on it. Few expected him to be an American from Chicago.Bettors poured more than $40 million into the most recent papal conclave, on just two prediction market platforms: over $30 million on Polymarket, according to its website, and over $10.6 million on Kalshi, says a company spokesperson.Going into the conclave, the new Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — had odds of less than 1%, according to Kalshi’s website. Of the over 33,000 conclave trades placed on Kalshi, just 416 trades totaling to nearly…

Chelsea began the second period with intent and twice threatened early on.Taylor Hinds had to produce a perfectly timed block tackle to deny Erin Cuthbert when she prepared to fire at goal from fellow half-time introduction Johanna Rytting Kaneryd’s pass.The lively Baltimore then rasped an effort from the edge of the Liverpool area that was narrowly wide of the right post.The Reds’ response saw a diagonal Höbinger free-kick from the left glanced across the six-yard box by Gemma Bonner towards Ceri Holland, who could not make contact for a potential tap-in.Hinds blocked Beever-Jones’ glanced header from a near-post corner and…

When her daughters have arguments or spats, former first lady Michelle Obama doesn’t want to get involved.Obama used an intentionally hands-off parenting philosophy to teach her daughters Malia and Sasha how to solve their own problems together, she said in an April 30 episode of her podcast “IMO,” which she co-hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson.”I didn’t mediate in between them,” said Obama, 61. “I was like, ‘I love you both, and if I don’t know who was wrong, don’t ask me to get in it.” If she did have to get involved in conflicts, both daughters would end up…

Editor’s Note: “My Happy Place,” a CNN Original Series following celebrities on deeply personal journeys, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. CNN also tapped anchors and correspondents to share their happy places. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta’s is Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan CNN  —  Rodger Bowser has worked in kitchens in London, studied cooking in Ireland and been a private chef on houseboats in France. But when it came time to plant his flag somewhere and build a lasting career in food, he always knew he’d return to Ann Arbor. His decision goes back to Bowser’s formative…

Not every day is a good day for Barbie, if prices for dolls in the U.S. keep rising amid President Donald Trump’s tariff policy announcements.A series of household items including leggings, Barbie dolls power drills and washing machines have increased in price since Trump initially announced a sweeping set of global tariffs on April 2, according to an industry note issued by the Telsey Advisory Group on Tuesday.Between April 16 and April 30, the price of a Target-exclusive Barbie doll increased by nearly 43% to $14.99, up from $10.49, Telsey reported. A Whirlpool washing machine at Lowe’s went up in…

As couples therapists and associate professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, we spend a lot of time thinking about the keys to a long, loving relationship.We’ve also been married nearly 50 years, and you can’t stay together that long without learning to communicate through conflict.When couples come to us for therapy, they often arrive with a laundry list of what the other person could do better and how they ought to show their love. Each person feels like they’re under attack, like they’ve flunked the test of being a good partner. The happiest and most successful couples know how to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government.Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. “The Constitution is clear, and that of course is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the…