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Hey there! The Concacaf Nations League semifinals are upon us, with the U.S. men’s national team’s showdown with Panama kicking things off on Thursday before Canada’s clash with Mexico. I’m Pardeep Cattry with the latest as the 2026 World Cup host nations gear up for a big week. 📺 Footy fix All times U.S./Eastern Wednesday, March 19🇪🇺 UWCL: Wolfsburg vs. …

Chinese tech company Tencent is a gaming giant and the parent company of WeChat, the ubiquitous social messaging app in China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tencent on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter beat on top and bottom line driven by a surge in gaming and advertising revenue. Here’s how Tencent did in the fourth quarter of …

Last month, the 4 Nations Challenge took the sports world by storm, with the Canadians’ dramatic 3-2 victory over the United States in the championship capturing 16.1 million viewers in North America. That made it the second-most watched hockey game of the past century, and it also continued the developing rivalry between the two nations. Canadian fans had booed the …

A new era of 3D printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in the construction industry, according to Veena Sahajwalla, professor and founding director of UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre. Speaking to CNBC’s Mandy Drury at Schneider Electric’s Sydney Innovation Summit on Monday in Australia, Sahajwalla said manufacturers had …

Getty Images The 2025 NWSL regular season is officially back and so am I with new power rankings. A rating like this after one week might not have a massive changes from my preseason rankings, but there’s still enough out of opening weekend that caught my eye. The top teams are exactly who they are, but there are plenty of …

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2025.  NYSE Investors are feeling as gloomy as consumers. The University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers, which was released March 14, showed consumer sentiment plunging to its lowest since 2022. Wall Street is in a similarly dour mood, according to the March edition of both the Bank of America’s …

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Six weeks before the last four teams standing in the Concacaf Nations League gathered in the Los Angeles area, the U.S.’ new geopolitical realities positioned themselves as a massive cloud that would linger over the North American soccer championship. The list of events that signaled as much grew quickly, from comedian Jon Stewart’s Concacaf quip during an …

Japan’s national flag flutters at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on May 30, 2024. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s central bank kept its key policy rate steady at 0.5% at Wednesday’s conclusion of a two-day meeting. The move, which was in line with market expectations, comes as the Bank of Japan assesses the potential impact …

Today, I am very excited to announce Photography Life’s newest Online Workshop: “Secrets of Professional Wildlife Photographers – By Libor Vaicenbacher.” This 2 hour 48 minute video series brings you into the field with three extraordinary wildlife photographers to share their most valuable techniques. Photo by Libor Vaicenbacher Vladimír Čech Jr. is world-renowned for his camera trap photography. He has …

While the Concacaf Nations League is a tournament that will showcase the best that the confederation has to offer, this year’s edition comes during a tenuous political climate between participants Mexico, Canada, Panama, and the United States. In the lead-up to the tournament, Canadian head coach and American Jesse Marsch spoke out against President Donald Trump’s comments about making Canada the …