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Le rare aveu d’impuissance de Donald Trump après son appel avec Vladimir Poutine

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Donald Trump déplore ce jeudi 3 juillet l’absence de « progrès » avec Vladimir Poutine, qui refuse de « renoncer à ses objectifs » en Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL – Un rare aveu d’impuissance. Après un appel d’environ une heure avec son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine, Donald Trump a reconnu, ce jeudi 3 juillet, ne pas avoir réussi à faire avancer le dossier ukrainien et à faire changer d’avis le maître du Kremlin.

« Non, je n’ai fait aucun progrès » lors de cette conversation, a déclaré le président américain à la presse, ajoutant qu’il n’était « pas content » de la guerre en cours entre l’Ukraine et la Russie.

Le président russe venait de lui dire que la Russie « ne renoncera pas à ses objectifs » en Ukraine, tout en se disant ouvert à la poursuite des négociations avec Kiev.

Moscou campe sur ses positions

Il s’agissait de la sixième discussion entre les deux dirigeants depuis le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche en janvier. L’échange a été qualifié devant les journalistes de « franc » par le conseiller diplomatique du Kremlin, Iouri Ouchakov.

La Russie « continue à rechercher une solution politique et négociée au conflit » avec l’Ukraine, a affirmé le président russe à son homologue, selon Iouri Ouchakov. Vladimir Poutine a « souligné la volonté de la partie russe de poursuivre le processus de négociation » entamé à Istanbul, où ont récemment eu lieu deux sessions de pourparlers directs russo-ukrainiens aux maigres résultats. Mais « la Russie ne renoncera pas à ces objectifs », a martelé Iouri Ouchakov.

Moscou réclame notamment de l’Ukraine qu’elle lui cède quatre régions partiellement occupées, en plus de la Crimée annexée en 2014, et qu’elle renonce à entrer dans l’Otan. Des conditions inacceptables pour Kiev.

Volodymyr Zelensky veut parler à Donald Trump

Vladimir Poutine et Donald Trump ont également évoqué les conflits au Moyen-Orient, dont la récente guerre entre l’Iran et Israël et la Syrie, le chef de l’État russe ayant plaidé pour un règlement « exclusivement par des moyens politiques et diplomatiques »

Cette discussion est intervenue au lendemain de l’annonce par Washington d’une pause dans la livraison de certaines armes à l’Ukraine, près de trois ans et demi après le début de l’offensive russe.

Les États-Unis sont le principal pourvoyeur d’aide militaire à l’Ukraine et cette décision risque de mettre Kiev dans une position difficile à un moment où les troupes russes continuent d’avancer sur le front.

En déplacement au Danemark jeudi, le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a appelé les Européens à accroître leur soutien face à ce qui s’apparente à un désengagement américain. Dans ce contexte, le chef de l’État ukrainien a dit espérer s’entretenir avec Donald Trump « demain (vendredi ndlr) ou dans les prochains jours ». Les deux dirigeants s’étaient rencontrés en marge du sommet de l’Otan à La Haye la semaine dernière.

Mardi, c’était le président français Emmanuel Macron qui avait parlé au téléphone avec Vladimir Poutine, pour la première fois depuis 2022, à l’encontre de la politique visant à isoler le maître du Kremlin prônée par les Européens.



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Trump signs executive order calling for foreign tourists to pay higher national park fees

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President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on the national park system to charge higher entry fees for foreign visitors.

It instructs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — who oversees the National Park Service — to “develop a strategy” to hike entrance fees and recreation pass fees for non-U.S. residents at any national park that currently charges for entry.

“To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park system, I’ve just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans,” Mr. Trump said in a Thursday evening rally in Iowa. “The national parks will be about America first.”

CBS News has reached out to the Interior Department and the National Park Service regarding when the fee hike may take effect or how much the surcharge for nonresidents could cost.

In its 2026 fiscal year budget proposal released in May, the Interior Department estimated that such a surcharge would generate more than $90 million annually.  

Not all national parks charge an entrance fee, and for those that do, the fee varies. Generally, visitors can purchase either a standard daily or weekly pass to one specific park, or an annual pass that can be used at one park or in a certain region of the country. The Park Service also offers a more comprehensive “America the Beautiful” pass, which costs $80 and can be used at all national parks nationwide.

Some of the National Park Service’s most popular sites — like Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon — charge entrance fees of $20 per person or $35 per vehicle.

Mr. Trump also ordered the Interior Department to give U.S. residents “preferential treatment” over foreign visitors regarding “recreational access rules, including permitting or lottery rules” that parks might have in place. The order did not detail what those preferential treatment rules would entail, but some popular national parks have reservation systems for entry and camping during peak seasons.

The order Thursday also revoked a memorandum signed in January 2017, at the tail end of former President Barack Obama’s second term, which sought to promote diversity and inclusion at national parks. The move appeared to be part of the ongoing effort by the Trump administration to scale back the federal government’s diversity efforts.

The latest moves come as the Trump administration has sought to reduce the size of the National Park Service’s staff. It laid off about 1,000 Park Service employees in February as part of its push, led by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, to enact large-scale personnel and budgetary cuts across the federal government.

According to analysis released this week by the National Parks Conservation Association, an independent advocacy group, the Park Service has lost 24% of its permanent staff since President Trump took office in January.

In its 2026 fiscal year budget, the Interior Department also proposed cutting more than $1 billion to the Park Service, which would be the largest such budget cut in the agency’s history.

And in a separate executive order Thursday, the president also established the “Make America Beautiful Again” Commission, which will be tasked, among other things, with “expanding access to public lands and waters for recreation and incentivizing voluntary conservation efforts.”

The commission will be chaired by Burgum and made up of members of the Trump administration. The order itself was spearheaded by Benji Backer, founder and CEO of the group Nature Is Nonpartisan.

“It’s an honor to lead this nonpartisan initiative with the White House,” Backer said in a statement Thursday. “Today is a great victory for the environment, but this is just the beginning.”

In a June 19 interview with CBS News, Backer was critical of a language in early Senate versions of Mr. Trump’s “big, beautiful, bill” that would have allowed thousands of acres of public lands to be sold for housing and infrastructure development.

That language was eventually removed from the version of the bill that passed the House on Thursday and heads to the president’s desk for his signature.

“Just because something isn’t a national park or a national wilderness area, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t deserve to be in public hands,” Backer told CBS News at the time. “Donald Trump’s legacy will not be good on conservation if this goes through.” 

Tracy J. Wholf and

Nancy Chen

contributed to this report.



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Benavidez set for Riyadh Season debut vs. Yarde in November

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Anthony Yarde will have a third crack at world title honours as David Benavidez makes the first defence of his WBC light heavyweight belt in his Riyadh Season debut come November.

His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has today announced on X that after months of speculation over Benavidez’s next move, he will face two-time title challenger Yarde. The exact date and venue will be confirmed later.

Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs) recovered from a sluggish start to outpoint Lyndon Arthur and settle their trilogy on the Chris Eubank Jr-Conor Benn undercard at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26. Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) emerged unscathed from a thrilling firefight with contender David Morrell two months earlier, in his second bout at 175lbs.

This latest development comes after negotiations with WBO interim light heavyweight champion Callum Smith (31-2, 22 KOs) had been ongoing as far back as April, with the Liverpudlian’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirming he’d been in touch with Benavidez’s management team about scheduling that fight in the final quarter of 2025.

Smith has been in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the IBA’s latest Pro event and spoke publicly as late as Wednesday night about renewed optimism they could get a deal done — provided the financials were right and all parties were in agreement on a suitable fight date.

Yarde suffered a career-first defeat in August 2019, falling short but earning credit aplenty after Sergey Kovalev scored an 11th-round stoppage win to retain the WBO world title.

Three-and-a-half years later, he gave then-unbeaten champion Artur Beterbiev all he could handle during an absorbing contest but again fell short, losing via eighth-round stoppage.

In two-and-a-half years since then, he has only boxed four times and largely against low-level opposition before ending an unexpected Arthur series victorious. The 33-year-old is The Ring’s No. 4-ranked contender, while Benavidez sits at No. 2 after impressive decision victories over Oleksandr Gvodzyk and Morrell to kickstart his light heavyweight campaign.

He was ringside in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to watch Dmitry Bivol outpoint Beterbiev on Feb. 22 with tentative plans to face the victor next. Instead, with the pair deadlocked at one apiece after two fights, a trilogy is mooted to finish their own much-anticipated rivalry.

Bivol relinquished the WBC strap and Benavidez subsequently elevated from interim titleholder in the aftermath, once it became clear that matchup wouldn’t be next. Wednesday, the IBF ordered Bivol to make a long overdue defence against Michael Eiffert (13-1, 5 KOs) and it remains to be seen whether he will drop another belt, though the division moves on.



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Benavidez vs Yarde: Anthony Yarde to challenge David Benavidez for world-title in November

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British light-heavyweight Anthony Yarde will challenge unbeaten WBC world champion David Benavidez in Saudi Arabia this November.

London-born Yarde, 33, will be making his third attempt to win a world title, having fallen short against Sergey Kovalev in 2019 and Artur Beterbiev in 2023.

Benavidez, known as ‘The Mexican Monster’, boasts an unblemished record of 30 wins, including 24 by knockout.

The American fighter of Mexican heritage is a former two-time WBC super-middleweight world champion.

He has long been linked with a bout against Mexican star Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, with some purists saying the pound-for-pound star has steered clear of a showdown with Benavidez.

Yarde heads into the fight on the back of a trilogy victory over Lyndon Arthur in April, having lost their first bout in 2020 before winning the rematch a year later.

The bout will form part of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Season, though an exact date and venue are yet to be confirmed.



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Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks – The White House

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Policy.  From the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon to the tranquility of the Great Smoky Mountains, America’s national parks have provided generations of American families with unforgettable memories.  It is the policy of my Administration to preserve these opportunities for American families in future generations by increasing entry fees for foreign tourists, improving affordability for United States residents, and expanding opportunities to enjoy America’s splendid national treasures.

Sec. 2.  Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks.  (a)  The Secretary of the Interior shall develop a strategy to increase revenue and improve the recreational experience at national parks by appropriately increasing entrance fees and recreation pass fees for nonresidents in areas of the National Park System that charge entrance fees or recreation pass fees as defined in 16 U.S.C. 6801.  Additionally, to the extent consistent with applicable law, the Secretary of the Interior, working with the Secretary of Agriculture as appropriate, shall take steps to increase the prices at which the America the Beautiful Pass — the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass — and any site-specific agency or regional multi-entity passes are sold to nonresidents.

(b)  The Secretary of the Interior shall use any increased fee revenue generated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to improve the infrastructure of, or otherwise enhance enjoyment of or access to, America’s Federal recreational areas, consistent with 16 U.S.C. 6807.

(c)  The Secretary of the Interior, working with the Secretary of Agriculture as appropriate, shall take steps to improve services and affordability for United States residents visiting national parks, as consistent with applicable law.

(d)  The Secretary of the Interior, working with the Secretary of State, shall work to encourage international tourism to America’s national parks and outdoor recreation areas, and especially wider utilization of America’s many such areas that may be underutilized.

(e)  The Secretary of the Interior shall review the maintenance backlog within the National Park Service and take all appropriate action to fully implement the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund established in the Great American Outdoors Act (Public Law 116-152), invest in the infrastructure of national parks, and increase visitor capacity to allow more Americans to visit national parks.

(f)  The Secretary of the Interior shall review all of the Department of the Interiors rules and policies related to public use of national parks and take actions consistent with applicable law to ensure that the National Park Service manages national parks consistent with the policy of this order.  The Secretary of the Interior shall review all of the Department’s recreational access rules and take steps to rescind any that unnecessarily restrict recreation in national parks.  In conducting this review, the Secretary of the Interior shall especially scrutinize all recreational access rules or other restrictions promulgated or enacted during the prior administration.  The Secretary of the Interior shall take appropriate actions to grant American residents preferential treatment with respect to any remaining recreational access rules, including permitting or lottery rules, consistent with applicable law.

Sec. 3.  Revocation.  The Presidential Memorandum of January 12, 2017 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Our National Parks, National Forests, and Other Public Lands and Waters), is hereby revoked.

Sec. 4.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:  

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or 

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.  

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.  

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.  

(d)  The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of the Interior.

                             DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    July 3, 2025.



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What the GOP’s megabill means for federal student loan borrowers

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House Republicans narrowly passed their spending megabill on Thursday. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law on Friday, July 4.

Among numerous provisions aimed at reducing federal spending and increasing tax revenue, the bill lays out some major changes for federal student loan borrowers.

Most of the changes to student borrowing, such as lower limits on graduate loans, won’t impact borrowers who are out of school and currently in repayment.

But those taking out loans next summer and after, as well as borrowers on several different existing repayment plans, will have fewer repayment options going forward.

The change to repayment plans could be one of the most impactful provisions of the bill for current and future federal student loan borrowers.

Two years to choose from two plans

The Senate’s bill narrows the number of repayment options currently available to federal student loan borrowers down to just two plans: a standard repayment plan and a new income-driven plan known as the Repayment Assistance Plan. Borrowers on any of the currently existing repayment plans except the SAVE, income-contingent or Pay as You Earn plans, will be able to keep their plans and monthly payments the same.

Borrowers whose loans are dispersed on or after July 1, 2026 and those currently enrolled in SAVE, ICR or PAYE plans will have only the two repayment plan options. Many SAVE plan borrowers are in an administrative forbearance since federal courts blocked the plan from going into effect in July 2024.

Borrowers on the SAVE plan would likely have to choose another plan anyway if federal courts retain the temporary injunction against it. Under the Republicans’ legislation, those and other borrowers will have between July 2026 and July 2028 to choose a new plan. After July 1, 2028, borrowers will automatically be moved into the income-based repayment plan.

The new standard plan will give borrowers a fixed monthly payment to have their loans paid off between 10 and 25 years, depending on the size of their loans. The current standard plan has a loan term of 10 years, regardless of the amount borrowed. 

The Repayment Assistance Plan will calculate monthly payments as between 1% and 10% of a borrower’s discretionary income, down from the current offerings that set payments at 10%, 15% or 20% of a borrower’s income. 

One analysis found that borrowers’ monthly payments could spike by hundreds of dollars on RAP, compared with what their payments would be on the SAVE plan. 

Correction: A previous version of this article misstated which student loan repayment plans will allow borrowers to keep their plans and monthly payments the same.

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A Alcaraz le gustan mucho las chicas

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Nick Kyrgios lo ha vuelto a hacer. El tenista australiano, conocido tanto por su talento como por sus polémicas, ha desatado una tormenta en pleno Wimbledon al cuestionar el futuro deportivo de Carlos Alcaraz por motivos extradeportivos. Durante una charla con el entrenador Patrick Mouratoglou en el marco de la Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS), Kyrgios no dudó en señalar a Jannik Sinner como el tenista que acabará teniendo una carrera más sólida que la del murciano.

Elijo a Sinner porque a Alcaraz le encantan las chicas

Nick Kyrgios

Kyrgios, fiel a su estilo provocador, ni siquiera esperó la respuesta de Mouratoglou cuando él mismo abrió el debate sobre quién acabará teniendo una mejor carrera entre Sinner y Alcaraz. El ‘bad boy’ disparó sin contemplaciones: “Elijo a Sinner porque a Alcaraz le encantan las chicas. Podría distraerse, salir demasiado de fiesta. Mientras, Sinner es más estable”.

La respuesta de Mouratoglou

Mouratoglou, por su parte, trató de matizar la opinión del australiano y mostró más confianza en el talento de Alcaraz. “Si miramos el cara a cara, Alcaraz está por delante. Creo que terminará siendo el mejor de los dos”, apuntó el técnico francés, entrenador de Naomi Osaka. 

Si miramos el cara a cara, Alcaraz está por delante

Patrick Mouratoglou

Fiel a su historial, Kyrgios vuelve a convertirse en protagonista sin tocar una raqueta. En el pasado ya cargó contra Djokovic, Nadal, el propio Sinner e incluso la ATP, dejando claro que no es de los que se muerden la lengua. Esta vez, su diana ha sido un Alcaraz que, pese a su juventud, se ha ganado el respeto de todo el circuito… menos del australiano.





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Supreme Court backs deportation of migrants to South Sudan

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In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Trump administration has the Supreme Court ‘on speed dial.’

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on July 3 backed the Trump administration in a dispute with a federal judge over the administration’s attempt to deport eight migrants to South Sudan.

The high court said its June 23 order overriding the judge’s requirement that a group of migrants be given a meaningful chance to show they would be harmed if removed to countries other than their homeland applies to the eight being held at a military base in Djibouti.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administra­tion has the Supreme Court on speed dial,” Sotomayor wrote.

The administration had accused U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston of a “lawless act of defiance” when he said the Supreme Court’s order did not apply to his May 21 decision that the administration violated his ruling when it tried to fly the migrants to politically unstable South Sudan.

Murphy had said the eight men were entitled to raise fears about being tortured before being sent to South Sudan.

It’s well-established law that violations of court orders can still be acted on even if the underlying issue has been resolved, lawyers for the migrants told the Supreme Court.

“Any other conclusion would reward the government’s defiance of the district court’s orders,” they wrote.

But the administration argued that once Murphy’s April 18 order was blocked by the Supreme Court, his subsequent decisions were also voided.

“Once a tree is uprooted, its branches do not continue to thrive,” Solicitor General John Sauer told the court.

The court’s majority had not explained their June 23 decision, as is common when acting on an emergency request.

But Sotomayor, who wrote a dissent, said the administration had openly flouted Murphy’s court orders and should not be rewarded for doing so.

In the July 3 unsigned opinion, the majority said Murphy can’t “enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable.”

The majority did not agree to the administration’s request that Murphy be removed from the case.

Justice Elena Kagan said that while she opposed the court’s initial decision, she does not see how Murphy can compel the government to comply with an order that the court has blocked.



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Rep. Mark Green to resign from Congress on July 20 after Trump bill vote

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U.S. Rep. Mark Green‘s last day in office will be July 20, Fox News has learned.

Green, a Republican from Tennessee, previously announced his intention to resign after the vote on President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The retired U.S. Army officer voted in favor of Trump’s spending bill, sending it to the president’s desk.

Following his last vote, Green posted to X to share his thoughts.

TRUMP REACTS TO TILLIS NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION, SENDS WARNING TO ‘COST CUTTING REPUBLICANS’

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., voted for the last time on President Donald Trump’s spending bill. His last day in office will be July 20. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

“Today was my last vote in Congress,” he wrote. “My time here started with a fire to serve veterans, it continued with leading the historic impeachment of a cabinet secretary, and now it ends with achieving real border security. I am grateful my last vote was for the one Big Beautiful Bill.”

TILLIS’ RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT DRAWS REACTIONS FROM TRUMP CRITIC JEFF FLAKE, BERNIE SANDERS: ‘A CULT’

Green first announced he would retire nearly a month ago, but had not clarified a date.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up,” he wrote in a June 9 statement. “As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package.”

“Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump’s border security measures and priorities make it through Congress,” he continued. “By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire, and there will be a special election to replace me.”

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., and other members of Congress reenacting the historic WWII jump over Normandy in 2024.

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., and other members of Congress reenacting the historic WWII jump over Normandy in 2024. (Office of Rep. Mark Green)

THOM TILLIS ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM SENATE AFTER CLASH WITH TRUMP

Green has served as the Republican chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee since 2023.

Before being elected to Congress, he served as a Tennessee senator representing the 22nd district, from 2013 to 2018.

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In 2024, Rep. Green led the effort to impeach former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors. Mayorkas was successfully impeached by the House of Representatives on Feb. 13, 2024.
 



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Does Joey Chestnut have a girlfriend? What to know about hot dog king’s dating history

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Joey Chestnut is a sporting fixture, particularly during midsummer, where he emerges like a phoenix to lay waste to opposition eaters in Coney Island. The record-breaking competitive eater invokes a killer whale atop the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest stage, devouring anything in sight — hot dogs, buns and everything in between.

But Chestnut is more than his mouth. His dominance has brought with it a certain amount of celebrity, too. Yes, he’s best known for his ability to ingest copious amounts of wienies (and other cuisines). But his life away from the plate has proven similarly captivating, albeit in different ways.

Chestnut has offered occasional glimpses into his romantic life over the years. Here’s the latest on his relationship history.

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Does Joey Chestnut have a girlfriend?

Chestnut’s eating habits draw most of the attention. But his romantic life has garnered interest in recent years, too. At present, it doesn’t appear that the 41-year old has a partner. He enjoyed a fairly high-profile romance with fellow competitive eater Neslie Ricasa in the early 2010s; the couple was engaged to marry before breaking things off in 2015.

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What happened to Joey Chestnut’s fiancee?

Chestnut and Ricasa dated for three years, climbing to the top of the competitive eating scene hand-in-hand. In 2014, Chestnut proposed, dropping on one knee prior to collecting his eighth-straight hot dog eating contest crown with a 61-frank showing. Ricasa accepted Chestnut’s request gleefully.

The two were set for a May 9, 2015 wedding date. But weeks before they were due to be bound in holy matrimony, they split. Chestnut cited his frenzied competition schedule as reason for the breakup.

“I definitely would say it was traveling. I was gone quite a bit,” Chestnut said, per the New York Post. “It was mutual. It just didn’t work.”

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Neslie Ricasa (2011-2014)

Chestnut’s relationship with Ricasa started in 2011. Ricasa, a San Jose native who embarked on a career as a financial analyst, thrust herself into the competitive eating world as Chestnut was in the midst of his reign of terror. She downed 14 hot dogs (and buns) on the Coney Island stage in 2013 and downed 59 dumplings in 10 minutes at the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship that same year.

Chestnut and Ricasa’s relationship lasted three years, ending in 2015, just weeks before they were due to be married.

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