Christian Pulisic is perched on a bar stool in the old clubhouse overlooking the first-team training pitch at Milanello, AC Milan’s training ground. He makes a hand gesture, one he didn’t need the past six months living in Italy to learn. Pulisic is talking about himself as one of the “older guys” on the USMNT …
There’s no world juniors for women. What would it take to make it happen?
The top under-20 men’s players from Czechia, Finland, Sweden and the United States will vie for a spot in the gold medal game during the semifinals of the 2024 World Junior Championship on Thursday. The best women in that age group won’t have the chance. They never have. Since 1977 the IIHF has sanctioned a men’s …
Luke Littler, 16, Makes the World Darts Final
The classic image of a darts game is a friendly contest in a smoky pub filled with middle-aged men holding pint glasses. But at the top level, centered in Britain, darts is a fiercely competitive sport and a big business with multimillion-dollar purses, boisterous crowds and live television coverage. Now the darts world has a …
Senators Hold Up 43 Biden Diplomatic Nominees as Crises Roil World
The Biden administration has 43 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation in the Senate as Congress prepares to break for the holidays, a delay that is putting American national security and foreign policy interests in jeopardy around the world, the State Department said on Friday. Any nominee not confirmed before the Senate ends its session, which …
2023 Rugby: South Africa Stand Alone After World Cup Title
As the championship match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup ticked into its last half minute, South Africa’s Springboks, the defending champions, girded themselves for a brutal final stand. Arrayed against them were New Zealand’s iconic but troubled All Blacks, scrapping desperately for a victory that just weeks before few had expected would be possible. …
As World Heats, Energy for Air-Conditioning Could Double by 2050
Sixty nations committed on Tuesday to improve the efficiency of new air-conditioners by 50 percent and reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to those cooling machines by almost 70 percent, the latest in a flurry of global promises that aim to tackle climate change. The voluntary pledge made at the U.N. climate talks in Dubai was …
Cindy McCain, Head of World Food Program, Faces Staff Revolt Over Gaza Conflict
As the truce in the Israel-Hamas war was ending on Thursday, Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Program, met virtually with her staff to address an internal uproar over accusations that she was not leveraging her position to speak out against the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Many of …
Herzog Says Israel Is Fighting on Behalf of the ‘Free World’
new video loaded: Herzog Says Israel Is Fighting on Behalf of the ‘Free World’ transcript Back transcript Herzog Says Israel Is Fighting on Behalf of the ‘Free World’ President Isaac Herzog of Israel said that in order “to change the equation” in the Middle East, Israel has to “uproot” Hamas. 00:00:00.000 —> 00:00:02.420 We have …
Saudi Arabia Wins Bid to Host World Expo 2030
Saudi Arabia won the bid to host the World Expo 2030 in a landslide on Tuesday, delivering a triumph to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, as he seeks to reshape the authoritarian country’s international image — and his own. The vote was held by the Bureau International des Expositions in …