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Jeff CarlisleJun 3, 2025, 06:16 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.Real Salt Lake and United States midfielder Diego Luna said that the broken nose he sustained in a friendly against Costa Rica in January was a “life-changing” event for him.While the injury cut short Luna’s contribution that night, the assist he served up to Brian White in that match, as well as the sight of blood streaming down his face after taking an elbow to the nose sent a message to U.S manager Mauricio Pochettino that he had the desire to make an…

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 9, 2025. NYSEThe S&P 500 rose slightly on Wednesday, but gains were kept in check after private sector hiring hit its lowest level in more than two years, raising concerns trade policy uncertainty could be weighing on the U.S. economy.The broad market index advanced 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite was higher by 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, hovered around the flatline.A report from payrolls processing firm ADP showed that payrolls increased only 37,000 for the month, less than the downwardly revised 60,000 in April and below the consensus…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The family of the Egyptian national charged with attempted murder after an antisemitic Molotov cocktail attack in Boulder, Colorado, has been taken into ICE custody, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The suspected attacker, Mohamed Soliman, has a wife and five children, all of whom are now facing expedited removal from the US, the White House said in a post on X. The six family members are being held in Florence, Colorado. As of late Tuesday, a law enforcement source said immigration officials planned to transfer the detained family members to an immigration detention facility…

ZURICH — The laws on taking a penalty kick were clarified Tuesday after Julián Álvarez’s accidental double touch helped to eliminate Atlético Madrid from the Champions League.The new interpretation will take effect in UEFA-organized games Wednesday when Germany plays Portugal in a Nations League semifinal in Munich, the European soccer body said.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe update published by FIFA-backed rules panel IFAB means the kind of penalty Átletico forward Álvarez had disallowed after scoring in a shootout against Real Madrid in March should now be retaken.Álvarez slipped and kicked the ball against his standing left foot in the shootout in the…

Fran Kirby has announced her retirement from international football – only two days before the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 squad will be confirmed on Thursday.The 31-year-old Brighton midfielder was omitted from Sarina Wiegman’s matchday squad for Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat in Spain, and told her team-mates she was retiring with immediate effect after the game. Wiegman told her she was unlikely to make the Euro 2025 squad unless one of her team-mates got injured before Thursday’s deadline – which Kirby said made her realise she had “outstayed her welcome” on the international stage.She ends her Lionesses career with 77 caps and 19…

Spain’s Clàudia Pina came off the bench and scored twice as the reigning Nations League champions came back from a goal down to beat England 2-1 on Tuesday and claim victory in Group 3, booking their spot in the last four of this year’s competition.With Germany and France having already secured victory in Groups 1 and 2 respectively, world champions Spain and European champions England met to decide their group. Sweden took on Denmark in a winner-takes-all clash in Stockholm that kicked off half an hour later.”We have finished top of a group which also included England, a top team,…

Fans of the Star Wars prequel series Andor have taken to social media this week to draw comparisons between Israel’s war on Gaza and the show’s narratives of occupation, resistance, and authoritarian violence. Set as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the Andor series traces the formation of the Rebel Alliance and Cassian Andor’s role within it, focusing on the rise of resistance against the Galactic Empire. It provides context to the political and social conditions that shaped the early rebellion and expands on characters and events that influence the broader Star Wars narrative. Following the first…

CNN  —  It’s a dark chapter in Chile’s history. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold into adoption, mainly to foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they’re known as “The Children of Silence.” And now, for the first time in the country’s history, a Chilean judge announced he was prosecuting individuals alleged to have stolen babies in the country. Alejandro Aguilar Brevis, a Santiago Court of Appeals judge in charge of the investigation “determined that in the 1980s” there was a…

CNN  —  The Indiana Pacers’ journey to the NBA Finals was never going to be easy, but it got a little more complicated Tuesday, and it had nothing to do with basketball. The team’s flight bound for Oklahoma City for a Game 1 tilt with the Thunder was detoured by literal thunder and forced to land in Tulsa, Oklahoma, due to a tornado warning in the capital Tuesday afternoon. “The Pacers team plane circled due to the weather in Oklahoma City and subsequently landed in Tulsa to re-fuel,” a representative for the team said. The Pacers have since told CNN…

CNN  —  A Wisconsin man who investigators believe framed an undocumented migrant with threatening to kill President Donald Trump in order to have the immigrant deported has now been charged in the matter. According to state prosecutors, that man, Demetric Scott, admitted to framing the migrant, Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom Scott allegedly stabbed and robbed in 2023 and who was set to testify in the assault case against Scott. In an interview with Milwaukee police investigators, Scott “admitted that he wrote everything on the letters and envelopes himself,” charging documents say. “When asked what was going through his head at the…