Mr. Rubio also spoke in vague terms of a shared future. He told the Europeans that “our destiny together awaits.” He said he wanted to make it clear that “America is charting a path of a new century of prosperity, and that once again we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.”

If they get one point against Team Germany on Sunday (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI Télé, CBC Gem, TSN, CBC), they take the group and earn a bye into the quarterfinal round. They could get it with a regulation win, an overtime win. Even an overtime loss.

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The Americans, playing their final game of the preliminary round, improved to 4-0 and secured top spot in Group A, which also includes Canada, Finland, Czechia and Switzerland. All five teams in Group A earn spots in the quarterfinals, which begin on Friday.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned of “a deep rift” between Europe and the United States, arguing that the latter “will not be powerful enough to go it alone.” In his address at the Munich Security Conference Friday,

A total of 910 cases of measles have been confirmed so far this year.

In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump “managed in one year to destroy the American order that was.”