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Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 6, 2023, 01:03 PM ET

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.Concacaf announced Tuesday that it is renaming the Concacaf Champions League to the Concacaf Champions Cup, and significantly increasing the prize money, with the winners set to receive $5 million.

After more than 20 years at the top of the beer charts, Bud Light retail sales in the United States have taken a dive at the same time the brand is facing criticism over featuring a social media star who is transgender in an advertisement."This is sort of uncharted waters for a brand like that when it comes to seven weeks of sharp declines of that magnitude,' said Dave Williams, vice-president of analytics for Bump Williams Consulting, which focuses on the alcoholic beverage industry.

Hundreds of wildfires continued to blaze on Tuesday across Canada, exacerbating an already active wildfire season that was only expected to worsen, and sending smoke into portions of the United States, creating poor air quality levels.In Ontario, a layer of haze blanketed parts of Ottawa and Toronto, where Canadian officials warned residents about the poor air quality, as smoke moved in to portions of northern New York State and Vermont.

A newly opened dinosaur exhibition in Atlanta based on the blockbuster series of Jurassic Park movies has been temporarily shut down after an intruder broke in and caused $250,000 in damage, the police said.One man is in custody.On Monday, officers from the Atlanta Police Department responded to a burglary call at Jurassic World: The Exhibition, where a manager said he discovered several exhibits had been damaged, according to a police report.

Stefanos Tsitsipas already had a lot going on as he arrived at the French Open.He was trying to reach the level of the Grand Slam champions who came before him, like Novak Djokovic, who has beaten Tsitsipas in two major tournament finals, when he suddenly had to defend an attack from the sport's young stars, led by Carlos Alcaraz, a 20-year-old Spaniard ranked No. 1 in the world.

Bilal Nasir rode into his wedding on a bejeweled white horse, wearing a gleaming golden sherwani.He was surrounded by an entourage of his friends in coordinated outfits, dancing to the beat of a dhol, a two-sided drum.Light streamed out from the venue, Low Library at Columbia University, welcoming the crisp spring air on the evening of March 3.

I open the pantry door and the eastern phoebe flies off the nest.Her cup-shaped home is made of mud, covered in moss and cantilevered over a glass light fixture an avian Fallingwater.Her nest placement makes sense.Before eastern phoebes lived so close to humans, they built their nests on cliffs.Every year for 35 years, we've had an eastern phoebe nest under the eaves of our back porch.

Joseph Hoyt and his team first showed up to the abandoned mineshaft in Wisconsin during the late summer of 2017, personal protective equipment in hand.Long before Covid-19, the supplies were to protect them from the chlorine dioxide gas they had brought along.Their aim was to use the disinfectant gas to kill the Pseudogymnoascus destructans fungus lining the walls of the mineshaft, which had already killed millions of bats across North America.

When Liz Gouari was making plans to move from Africa to join her husband in a rural stretch of northern Quebec, he promised her that Canada was a tranquil nation.But on Wednesday, the couple was among dozens of people sitting in stunned disbelief in an evacuation center after the entire city where they lived was forced to flee from a raging wildfire.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is earning a lot of praise.Sony Pictures Turns out inclusivity also means more people want to give you their money!The early box office figures for the new Spider-Man film and the demographic data of moviegoers paint a vivid picture.Who is he?There are plenty of variations on who Spider-Man is, and now Miles Morales is getting the spotlight.

New harmful illicit drugs are inundating a flourishing market for traffickers amid violence and corruption hurting local communities across Europe, the EU's agency monitoring drugs and addiction said Friday.The grim finding was part of the agency's annual report.It also said that drug users in Europe are now exposed to a wider range of substances of high purity as drug trafficking and use across the region have quickly returned to pre-COVID 19 pandemic levels.

Adludio, the global AI-powered platform delivering attention-led and data-driven mobile advertising, will be joined by industry leaders on Wednesday, 21st June at 2 pm CEST aboard the at Cannes 2023, in an exclusive discussion on the future of AI for advertisers and the impact it will have on the festival.

McCain Foods, a leading supplier of innovative foodservice frozen potato and appetizer products, is pleased to announce the winning chefs, recipe concepts and charities receiving donations totaling $50,000 at the EPIC Throwdown LIVE held at the 2023 National Restaurant Association Show, May 20-23."In one epic weekend, seven chefs inspired food operators of all types with eight versatile dishes featuring our award-winning McCain Mini Mashers potato bites," said Tracy Hostetler, VP, head of North American Potato Marketing at McCain Foods.

In Verizon's just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway.Verizon's just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report shows the continued effectiveness of business email compromises.The study, which tracked incidents occurring between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022, found that BEC attacks doubled and represented more than 50% of social engineering attacks.

Global technology company Brand Metrics, which works with publishers to demonstrate the effectiveness of digital advertising, has developed a pioneering partnership with music video streaming service XITE to pioneer a world-first CTV measurement solution.Brand Metrics will apply its measurement methodology to XITE's CTV campaigns, to provide advertisers with evidence of campaign effectiveness.

You may have been wondering about the recent vibrant, reddish sunsets and hazy skyline in Chicago.What's behind these phenomena can be traced back to a combination of particulate matter and smoke from Canadian wildfires and pollutants that create ground-level ozone.These conditions have occurred before, as recently as last July when wildfires in the western United States caused red suns and moons and hazy skies to be visible across Illinois.

Astus, the global corporate barter company, has announced a strategic investment with FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in ad tech, martech, and digital media.The partnership will focus on accelerating ad tech and martech solutions in the UK and around the world.

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"The love for the water started early," Stevie Dennis says as he pulls his boat away from the Tofino harbor.Growing up in the Ahousaht First Nations community of Clayoquot Sound along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Dennis's earliest memories all took place on the water.Raised by a family of fishers, he joined his parents on the boat every chance he could get.

There are few places in the world that are more naturally beautiful and charming than Canada's Prince Edward Island.Wedged between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the 2,185-square-mile island is a popular vacation destination for Canadians, as well as Americans who treat themselves to the gorgeous drive along the coast up through Maine.

The Washington Capitals dealt Dmitry Orlov to the Boston Bruins at the 2023 NHL Trade Deadline after the Caps had played their way out of playoff contention and could not come to terms with Orlov on a contract extension.Orlov spoke about that move and how he feels about it now that multiple months have passed in a Russian-language interview with Sport-Express published on Thursday.

Yesterday, Motorola unveiled its next generation of foldables - the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra and the Motorola Razr 40 - two phones similar in their essence, but different in a lot of key aspects.The Motorola Razr 40 Ultra is already available in Europe, and will ship in North America on June 23 - we have the review for you.

Homebuyers these days are facing much higher costs of ownership compared to a year ago, pushing most to the sidelines.Mortgage rates and home prices are high and inventory is paltry, resulting in a largely frozen housing market.Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are waiting for mortgage rates to drop before entering the market, according to a survey released this week by BMO Financial Group, the eight-largest bank in North America.

As more workers convert their living rooms and bedrooms to home offices, more commercial spaces are left vacant.The evolving work space is one reason crane construction of residential and mixed-use spaces is up across North America, according to a new report.The biannual Rider Levett Bucknall Crane Index for North America, which tracks the number of tower cranes across 14 U.S. and Canadian metro areas, reports that the overall crane count increased by 7.04 percent from the third quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023.

Image Jorja Smith has carved out a lane slightly below the mainstream with her moody, sophisticated R&B and pop.Credit...Liz Johnson Artur There's weekly, biweekly, even triweekly but is there a word for something that happens once every four weeks?I'm talking about a word more precise than monthly.

Eight days ago, 128 men began competing in singles at the French Open.Pretty much everyone has been focused on two of them.Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic moved one step closer on Sunday to a potential semifinal showdown.They clinically disposed of overmatched opponents who often struggled to get points and games, much less sets, in back-to-back matches in front of a packed house on the Philippe Chatrier court, offering a look at what may be coming to that stadium before the week ends.

Homebuyers in 2023 are questioning whether conventional neighborhoods work well for them.Many are now more acutely sensitive to isolation from neighbors the possibility of living among people you rarely see or interact with.It's hard to know if a prospective community will be friendly.Mission Peak Village members gather to play soccer over the weekend.