Congrats to 18-year-old American grandmaster Hans Niemann, who won Sigeman & Co by a full point over Michael Adams, Nils Grandelius, and Arjun Erigaisi! That's his second consecutive tournament victory (before this, he won the Capablanca Memorial), and he has picked up a very tidy 37 (ok, 36.8) rating points over these last two events.
U.S. chess is doing very well, even aside from our imported super-GMs...though we're very happy to have them remain here, thank you very much. Our younger generation of Sam Sevian, Jeffery Xiong, and now Niemann may or may not supplant our absolute top players, but they're at the very least a brilliant set of reserves. And then there are the even younger guys like Abhimanyu Mishra, whom you may recall broke Sergey Karjakin's record last year for the youngest grandmaster of all time. He's still making some progress, recently winning a round-robin tournament in St. Louis with a 2739 TPR.