Por Pablo Antonio Garcia Escorihuela, CNN en Español

La temporada 2026 de la Major League Soccer (MLS) no pudo tener un primer plato más atractivo para comenzar el año de la Copa del Mundo.

El campeón vigente, el Inter Miami, con Lionel Messi a la cabeza, realizará la primera de las cinco visitas que tiene pautadas para comenzar la temporada ante Los Ángeles FC, con Son Heung Min y Dennis Bouanga esperando al argentino en un partido que, además, se jugará en el Memorial Coliseum de Los Ángeles.

Messi se encontraba en duda para el arranque de la campaña después de presentar unas molestias musculares en su pierna izquierda, lo que obligó a él y a su equipo a aplazar una visita pautada a Puerto Rico para disputar un partido amistoso. Sin embargo, el equipo aseguró que contará con él para el primero de los cinco partidos que tendrán en calidad de visitantes.

El Inter empieza de una forma inusual la temporada de la MLS al estar por fuera de casa un mes, esperando a que su estadio esté terminado.

La primera de las novedades de esta temporada de MLS será el nuevo estadio del Inter Miami, el Freedom Park, ubicado detrás del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, y precisamente por su finalización es que los dirigidos por Javier Mascherano tendrán que jugar lejos de casa las cinco primeras jornadas del torneo.

El estadio será inaugurado el 4 de abril en el duelo en el que el Inter recibirá al Austin FC, y se espera que esté a casa llena, con las 25.000 localidades vendidas para el partido en el nuevo estadio del campeón de la liga.

Además, el torneo tendrá una parada obligatoria por la disputa del Mundial 2026, por lo que entre febrero y mayo se jugarán 15 jornadas, prácticamente la mitad del campeonato. Es por ello que comenzar bien será muy importante para todos los conjuntos.

La MLS no solo gira alrededor de Lionel Messi y el Inter Miami. La liga sigue recibiendo jugadores de alto perfil, que buscarán llegar de la mejor manera a una eventual convocatoria mundialista, o entregar el mejor espectáculo posible en la cancha.

James Rodríguez encabeza la lista de altas con su fichaje por el Minnesota United, seguido de la llegada de Timo Werner desde el Red Bull Leipzig al San José Earthquakes, o del regreso de Héctor Herrera al Houston Dynamo, entre otros fichajes de nivel.

También se destaca la presencia de Thomas Müller con el Vancouver Whitecaps, o el reencuentro de Miguel Almirón en Atlanta con quien fuera su técnico en la etapa más exitosa del club, Gerardo “Tata” Martino, que regresa a la liga para asumir de nuevo las riendas del Atlanta United.

El campeonato será uno parejo, equilibrado, donde todos querrán ponerle la mano a la corona que hoy ostenta el Inter Miami, que además de tener al dúo Messi y Luis Suárez, se reforzó con el lateral español Sergio Reguilón y con el atacante argentino, con experiencia en la Liga MX, Germán Berterame.

Todo está servido para ver una gran temporada de fútbol en la MLS, que servirá de telón de fondo para la gran fiesta de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de Estados Unidos, México y Canadá.

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(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s months of preparation for a Supreme Court ruling on his sweeping tariff powers did little to contain his rage when the verdict finally came.

“I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for the country,” he fumed from the White House briefing room on Friday in a hastily organized 45-minute appearance.

“Other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones the that the court incorrectly rejected.”

Trump swung between indignation over the elimination of his broad emergency tariffs and insistence that his ambitions for his favored economic tool would not be derailed, claiming at one point the US would emerge “stronger for it” even as he confessed to being “deeply disappointed.”

The White House now plans to impose a new 10% across-the-board tariff for as long as five months — unless extended by Congress — under a separate legal authority, buying Trump time to draw up a new gameplan for waging the trade war that has animated his agenda both at home and abroad.

“It’s a little more complicated, the process takes a little more time,” he said. “But the end result is going to get us more money.”

But that message belied the political repercussions for the White House, where aides were in the midst of preparations for a State of the Union speech next week meant to tout the nation’s progress ahead of the looming midterm elections.

Trump was in the State Dining Room at a breakfast meeting with governors when he received a note informing him of the ruling, which he blasted as “a disgrace” before ending the event early, according to people familiar with his remarks. Within hours, he had arranged to address the public, returning to the briefing room for the first time in a month.

Fresh questions about Trump’s agenda

The president’s defiance in the face of stark legal rejection marked the start of a new era of financial uncertainty for companies and consumers already thrown off-kilter by his determination to impose tariffs at unprecedented scale.

Trump’s aggressive use of emergency trade authorities reshaped international supply chains and global alliances, often in a matter of minutes, and allowed him to wield the threat of hefty tariffs as leverage to pressure foreign leaders into fulfilling his demands.

That now threatens to unravel, with little clarity about what comes next.

The Supreme Court did not offer directions for how the government should pay back the billions of dollars in refunds collected from companies that are now racing to seek restitution, creating an economic scenario that Trump aides and trade experts alike have succinctly described as “a mess.”

Trump on Friday declined to commit to paying back the money, which he had previously suggested could be used to fund a variety of new initiatives, including sending Americans $2,000 “tariff dividends.” The president instead suggested the matter would get tied up in years of legal fights.

The ruling also threw into doubt the central plank of Trump’s approach to foreign policy, raising fresh questions about whether allies and adversaries alike will suddenly feel more emboldened to challenge the United States on the world stage.

“It’s a huge blow to the president, and it does take away a major foreign policy tool,” said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. “This is a very decisive statement by the S

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Key Findings

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• Montana has the most heavy drinkers. 25.6% of legal-aged adults in Montana report binge or heavy drinking. North Dakota tails that at 25.1%, followed by Iowa (24.5%), Wisconsin (23.5%), and Vermont (23.0%). On the other side of the rankings, Utah (13.7%), Alabama (15.2%), and Kentucky (15.3%) have the fewest heavy drinkers.
• More than 40% of adults are obese in four states. West Virginia has the highest adult obesity rate at 41.5%. Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi also clock in with 40% obesity rates. Meanwhile, Colorado’s obesity rate is lowest nationwide at 25.0%.

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America’s Healthiest States

States are ranked across 10 health metrics.

1. Utah

• Physically unhealthy days: 13.08%
• Mentally unhealthy days: 17.29%
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From impulse DoorDash orders to forgotten streaming subscriptions, wasteful spending is a habit for many Americans, and younger generations are leading the charge.

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The most common wasteful spending habits, ranked

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