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 and, as he does so, he is sure to put air quotes around it.
Nearby is a portrait of Milan legend Paolo Maldini lifting a
As Donny Osmond sang the opening notes of “Star-Spangled Banner,” wearing a Las Vegas Grand Prix letterman jacket, the Sphere illuminated red, white and blue against the night sky.
Formula One was minutes away from its third race of the year in the United States, following Miami and Austin. As Osmond’s voice built to a crescendo, the sport’s powerbrokers stood proudly at the front of the starting grid, the 20 cars and hundreds of VIP guests behind them.
Not long
Indulge your imagination – and potentially empty your bank account – with a stay at one of these top-tier hotel rooms, offering the suite-est views and the most ‘bed’-azzling designs in the world of hospitality.
Elite Traveler – ‘the eminent beacon guiding ultra-high-net-worth individuals through the opulent tapestry of global luxury living’ – has drawn up its annual list of the 100 best hotel suites in the world for 2024. And they are, without exception, jaw-dropping.
Described as a
Dubai has been crowned the most popular destination in the world for the third year running by the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards for destinations.
The winners for the 2024 awards were identified based on the quality and quantity of reviews and ratings specific to several award subcategories from travellers on Tripadvisor for accommodations, restaurants and things to do in destinations worldwide over the 12 months between October 2022 and September 2023.
Tripadvisor says of third-time winner Dubai: ‘Everything feels extra
U.S. patients with sickle cell disease now have a novel treatment option: the first-ever CRISPR-based therapy.
On December 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the gene-editing therapy for use in patients age 12 years and older. In addition to offering hope of relief for people with severe forms of the painful blood disorder, the treatment, called Casgevy, is the world’s first to genetically tweak cells using the Nobel Prize–winning molecular scissors CRISPR/Cas9 (SN: 10/7/20).
Forest fires can devastate vast swaths of land, but in the United States, another category of conflagrations takes the title of most destructive.
Of the homes destroyed in wildfires across the contiguous United States from 1990 to 2020, 64 percent — nearly 11,000 — were razed by grassland and shrubland fires, researchers report in the Nov. 10 Science.
“We often think about forest fires because that’s what we see on the news … they’re dramatic, they’re huge, they’re intense,”
Laureles in Medellín, Colombia, has been named the Coolest Neighbourhood in the World to visit right now by Time Out.
It offers an ‘authentic balance of laid-back vibes alongside some of the best nightlife in the city’ and tops a 40-strong ranking for 2023 designed to showcase neighbourhoods that ‘have the best mix of cutting-edge culture, affordable great food and drink, street life, nightlife and community’.
Grace Beard, Travel Editor at Time Out, says: ‘What stands out with this year’s
PLUM GROVE, Texas — A Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for cartels.
Located in Liberty County, Texas near the small town of Plum Grove, the Colony Ridge development is a sprawling community that, based on an analysis of publicly available
As China’s spy balloon drifted across the continental United States in February, American intelligence agencies learned that President Xi Jinping of China had become enraged with senior Chinese military generals.
The spy agencies had been trying to understand what Mr. Xi knew and what actions he would take as the balloon, originally aimed at U.S. military bases in Guam and Hawaii, was blown off course.
Mr. Xi was not opposed to risky spying operations against the United States, but American
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