Matt Freese makes three saves in the shootout, and Damion Downs scores the decisive sixth-round kick in a 4-3 shootout after a 2-2 draw to send the U.S. past Costa Rica.

With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan.

A global research university, UC Santa Cruz is part of the world’s most celebrated system of public higher education, and stands among the leading institutions of higher learning. The campus rests ...