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Where to watch USMNT vs. Costa Rica: Latest team news and TV information
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup quarterfinals serve up a heavyweight bout on Sunday, as the United States locks horns with Costa Rica at U.S. Bank Stadium. For the Stars and Stripes, this marks their 18th straight trip to the knockout rounds, a streak...

Letter to the editor: Distraction or Reality?
Editor: Smoke and mirrors … bait and switch … catch phrases that we often see floating around these days. So, we are left to wonder what is the reality of seeking control of Canada, Greenland, Mexico or Panama? Or is it distraction? And now, the...

Guatemala edges Jamaica in CONCACAF Gold Cup opener
CARSON — The parking lot at Dignity Health Sports Park an hour before the start of Monday’s CONCACAF Group C doubleheader was early proof that the Guatemalan national team would hold the home crowd advantage. The Los Angeles area is home to a...

The River: After more than a decade, the DELTA QUEEN has chance at new life, with new owner
The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing story. By Capt. Don Sanders Special to...

2025 Gold Cup, Matchday 3: Match thread and discussion
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup is on matchday 3, and Group C takes the field tonight in Carson. Panama will take on Guadeloupe in the first match, while the nightcap will be Jamaica vs. Guatemala. Panama enters the Gold Cup confident that it can get...

New York Moves to Stop Vulture Fund Exploitation
After years of wrangling, New York lawmakers have a chance to give indebted nations some breathing room — if a key bill can survive the state assembly and governor’s office. If it passes, the law would limit the ability of a handful of notorious...

Santis strikes as listless Reggae Boyz fall to Guatemala in Gold Cup shock
On a night when energy, structure, and urgency were needed most, Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz were found wanting. A disjointed performance saw them succumb to a spirited Guatemala side 1-0 in their CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C opener at Dignity Health...

Where to watch Jamaica vs. Guatemala: Gold Cup free live stream
The Jamaica and Guatemala men’s national soccer teams clash for their 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup debuts on Monday, June 16 (6/16/2025) at Dignity Health Tennis Center in Carson, California. How to watch: Fans in the USA can watch the match live on...
A deadly parasitic fly cuts off animal imports at the southern border
The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has shut down animal imports at the southern border following an outbreak of a deadly flesh-eating parasite, with concerns of the return of the eradicated pest in the U.S. The new world screwworm (NWS), or...

County adopts resolution calling for federal Screwworm fly eradication, treatment action
By LEW K. COHN, Inquirer Publisher Gonzales County took steps Monday, June 9, to battle the threat of a New World Screwworm fly infestation that could devastate the livestock industry in Texas and throughout the nation. The commissioners court...

Reggae Boyz fall to Guatemala in Concacaf Gold Cup opener
Jamaica suffered a 1-0 defeat to Guatemala in their opening Group C match at the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup on Monday at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. Óscar Santis netted the game’s only goal in the 32nd minute, finishing a clever...

How EcoMusica & SonTierra Are Protecting Kids From Air Pollution and Climate Change With Music
Backed by science and heart, Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group whose goal is to protect clean air and children’s health — and EcoMadres, their Latino community outreach program — educates families about why they should...
Joaquin Pereyra’s great assist overshadowed as Loons cough up late lead
Minnesota United midfielder Bongi Hlongwane won the MLS goal of match day award for his no-look, back-heel flick in a 3-1 win over Houston on Wednesday. Come Saturday, fellow Loons mid Joaquin Pereyra logged a candidate for top assist in the...

Border Force seizes enormous £100m cocaine shipment at London port - one of the biggest drugs busts in years
By JOSE RAMOS Published: 06:41 EDT, 28 June 2025 | Updated: 06:42 EDT, 28 June 2025 Border Force have seized an enormous £100million in cocaine in one of the biggest drug busts in years in the UK. The massive haul was discovered hidden beneath...

South Dakota women veterans: Bonnie Schmidt
On today's show... Bonnie Schmidt grew up moving around the Midwest. Her career with the Army moved her around the world. Schmidt shares her experiences while in service and after. From basic training to becoming the head nurse of a VA specialty...

Guatemala Prepares for Gold Cup Challenge Against Jamaica
CARSON, California — The Guatemala national soccer team is gearing up for the Gold Cup, which Coach Luis Fernando Tena describes as a key opportunity to grow and prepare for the Concacaf qualifiers. Guatemala, positioned in Group C, will face...

When Diplomacy Drowns in Dictionary Deep-Dives
Shashi Tharoor’s recent whirlwind tour of Western capitals—from Washington’s corridors of power to the Council on Foreign Relations—has once again exposed India’s most celebrated linguistic showman in his full, bewildering glory. While...

Trump’s halting of protections for Haitian migrants draws concerns from Christian groups
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, June 28, 2025 A migrant family boards a Greyhound bus to San Antonio, Texas, after being received by the Val Verde Humanitarian Coalition on September 22, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. Thousands of...

Flying Higher Together
Carrying One Another Boys Town • 1917 105 Years of Helping Families Father Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, watched older children take turns carrying a younger boy stricken by polio up and down the stairs at Boys Town. Father Flanagan asked...

‘Ask what you can do for your country’
From left, David Staszak and his brother-in-law Donald Wood prepare to be driven to Plattsburgh to depart on an Honor Flight to Washington D.C. with Saranac Lake Police Chief Darin Perrotte on Friday. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) LAKE PLACID...