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Doug McIntyre Soccer Journalist If the U.S. men’s national team is to win its first Concacaf Gold Cup since 2021 this summer, it will do so severely shorthanded.Coach Mauricio Pochettino on Thursday named a 27-player USMNT training camp roster ahead of the biennial regional championship and the two early June friendlies that precede it. And as expected, many of the American regulars are missing.FOX Sports reported on Wednesday that star attacker Christian Pulisic would skip this summer’s tournament following two grueling seasons with Italian club A.C. Milan. Weston McKennie and Tim Weah are unavailable because Juventus is participating in the…
Some U.S. homeowners may soon get a sizable tax break thanks to the massive budget package that was passed by the House early Thursday. The legislation — dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — includes a provision that would lift the tax deduction cap for state and local taxes, or SALT, to $40,000 from its current $10,000 limit. That could provide tax savings for homeowners with high property taxes or who earn enough to have significant state income tax liabilities.The SALT deduction cap was introduced by Mr. Trump in his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as a way to…
WASHINGTON — The multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago while supporting increased mining, drilling and other traditional energy production.A marathon session that began Wednesday resulted in 1,100-plus page legislation that curbs billions of dollars in spending across food assistance, student loans, Medicaid and action to address climate change. The bill, which now heads to the Senate, repeals or phases out more quickly clean energy tax credits passed in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act during former President Joe Biden’s term. Biden’s climate law has been…
Another month is close to ending and so it’s time for a new booster pack to arrive in Pokemon TCG Pocket. I sure hope you are finding tricks to keep up with these packs or things might start to spiral out of control with this quick release schedule. The pack is called “Extradimensional Crisis” and it arrives May 29. This is an expansion or mini set labeled as “A3a,” so it adds to the previous full A3 set of “Celestial Guardians” that we started ripping on April 30. What’s new? The big news here is that Ultra Beast Pokemon are…
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Lionel Messi has revealed his favorite goal, and it wasn’t one of the hundreds he has scored with his legendary left foot.It was a header — one that sealed Barcelona’s 2009 Champions League final win over Manchester United.The Inter Miami star, World Cup champion for Argentina and eight-time Ballon d’Or winner made the announcement on Thursday, saying that goal from 16 years ago stands above the many he has logged for club and country over his unparalleled career.”I’ve scored many goals that might have been even more beautiful and valuable — also because of their importance — but the header…
BANFF, Alberta: Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven democracies pledged on Thursday (May 22) to address “excessive imbalances” in the global economy and said they could increase sanctions on Russia. The finance ministers and central bank governors, who met in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, said there was a need for a common understanding of how “non-market policies and practices” undermine international economic security. The document did not name China, but references by the US and other G7 economies to non-market policies and practices often are targeted at China’s state subsidies and export-driven economic model. The…
The Amazon Memorial Day sale is already up and running, which means there are some amazing discounts available for all kinds of tech products. Whether you’re looking for upgrades to your home entertainment setup, additions to your arsenal of mobile gadgets, or devices that will simply make life easier, there’s surely something for you from the retailer’s Memorial Day deals this year. There’s a chance that you get overwhelmed with the sheer number of offers from Amazon though. To help you decide what to buy, we’ve gathered the 35 best tech deals that we’ve found below. Read on and see…
When President Trump’s new tariffs started throttling freight traffic, the leader of trucking logistics firm Freight Technologies used an unorthodox method to try and get the president’s attention. The California-based firm purchased $2 million worth of Trump Coin, the signature cryptocurrency backed by Mr. Trump. The president and his family launched Trump Coin days before he took office in January. Anyone can buy the cryptocurrency. An analytics firm says Mr. Trump’s family and other backers have collected more than $300 million in transaction fees so far. Donald Quinby, Freight Technologies’ chief financial officer, told CBS News that the purchase seemed like…
The folks behind Rust-based AV1 video decoder rav1d are looking for developers to get it running as fast as its C-based cousin, dav1d. It all kicked off back in March 2023. The plan? Build a high-performance AV1 decoder, but with all the memory safety goodness Rust brings. They teamed up with Immunant for the heavy lifting on the engineering side. Fast forward to September 2024, and rav1d was pretty much there – “basically complete,” as they put it. It passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it’s based on, and you can even get Chromium to play nice…