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Pence must testify to grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election

The ruling sets up the unprecedented scenario of a former vice president giving potentially damaging testimony against the president he once served

Possible Trump indictment in New York probe delayed until next week

Nashville police release video of officers taking down shooter at Covenant School

Tennessee gun laws likely to remain lax after the mass shooting

How the most powerful rockets in history are speeding up a new race to the Moon

Francisco Doménech / José A. Álvarez

NASA and SpaceX are building two gigantic launch vehicles with massive thrust, which they hope will help humans set foot on the lunar surface again this decade

Emotional distress has increased worldwide over the past decade

Daniel Mediavilla

Debt ceiling impasse: McCarthy presses Biden to negotiate

The House Speaker says in a letter to the president that the White House position on lifting America’s borrowing authority could ‘hold dire ramifications for the entire nation’

Biden: Republicans’ policies would surrender tech economy to China

Inessa hugs her son Vitali after he arrives in Kyiv from Russian-controlled Ukrainian territory on March 22, 2023.

The missing Ukrainian children of the Russian invasion

Luis de Vega / Javier G. Cuesta|Kozacha Lopan / Moscow

A group of Afghan women at one of Zan Library's cultural workshops. Photo courtesy of the library.

Kabul’s only library for women closes due to Taliban threats and harassment

Trinidad Deiros Bronte|Madrid

Bogotá residents heading to work at dawn.

Why do Colombians get up earlier than everyone else in the world?

Inés Santaeulalia|Bogotá

Collection of lunar samples sent by the 'Chang'e 5' probe in 2020.

Chinese scientists discover new water reservoir on the Moon

Nuño Domínguez

The American journalist Katherine Corcoran, in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, on March 23.

Katherine Corcoran: ‘Contempt for the press is dangerous. In that, López Obrador is like Trump’

Constanza Lambertucci|Mexico

Adnan Syed gets emotional as he speaks to reporters outside the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal building after a hearing, on February 2, 2023, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Court backs victim’s family in Adnan Syed’s podcast ‘Serial’ case

Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan upheld by judge

The plan would allow Boy Scouts of America to continue operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting

Protesters march with flares during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, on March 28, 2023.

Police clashed with demonstrators across France, as thousands continue to protest

U.S. makes corporate transparency commitment with 20 nations

Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from inside the National Migration Institute (INM) building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023.

Migrants start fire at Mexico detention center, killing 40

Mexico's president said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility near the U.S. border after learning they would be deported

Russia convicts father of teen who drew antiwar pictures

The case of Alexei Moskalyov has drawn international attention. It’s a grim indication the Kremlin is intensifying its crackdown on dissent

Employees of NY State Solar, a residential and commercial photovoltaic systems company, install solar panels on a roof, in August 2022, in Massapequa, New York.

U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022

Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced domestically in 2022

Dutch sperm donor who allegedly fathered at least 550 children faces legal action

Isabel Ferrer|The Hague

The 41-year-old man was blacklisted in the Netherlands in 2017, but continued to make donations internationally and online

Achraf Hakimi and Hiba Abouk at a show in Paris in September 2021.

Hiba Abouk breaks silence after Achraf Hakimi accused of rape: ‘I will always be on side of victims’

María Porcel / Reuters|Madrid

Abouk says she has been estranged from the player since before the Prosecutor’s Office in Nanterre opened an investigation

Why Canada has a problem with its nurses

Jaime Porras Ferreyra|Montreal

The country’s acclaimed public health system is at breaking point, partly due to staffing shortages caused by low salaries and long working hours

Anthony Hopkins in a Sacai jacket and Tom Ford sweater.

Anthony Hopkins: ‘At the age of 17, I was tired of being called stupid. I said, “I’m going to be an actor”’

Elsa Fernández-Santos

At 85, the two-time Oscar winner plays a grandfather in ‘Armageddon Time.’ Off-screen, he knows that he still has a lot of life left to live and has put his fears behind him to enjoy it

MidJourney-generated image of the French Revolution seen through a GoPro camera.

Resurrected mummies and ancient cities: The problem with AI-generated images

Emanoelle Santos

Dr. Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Professor of Nutrition at Rovira i Virgili University in Spain.

‘The talk about superfoods is absurd, and miracle diets do not exist’

Jessica Mouzo

Hugo Mercier, a researcher with the Jean Nicod Institute, in Paris.

Hugo Mercier, psychologist: ‘People have their opinions… the media just tells them what they want to hear’

Daniel Mediavilla

The Mpemba effect describes how hot water freezes faster than cold water.

The Mpemba effect: When hot water freezes faster than cold

Siddhant Govardhan Agrawal

Amanda de la Garza, Magalí Arriola and Kit Hammonds in Chapultepec Forest, Mexico City.Gladys Serrano

‘All the artists want to come to Mexico. You can do ten times more with the same money’

Constanza Lambertucci|Mexico

The directors of the three most important contemporary art museums in Mexico — the MUAC, the Tamayo, and the Jumex — spoke with EL PAÍS about the institutions they curate, and the country’s evolving place in the international scene

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a Senate Subcommittee hearing on Biden's proposed budget request for 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2023.

Bank failures and rescue test Yellen’s decades of experience

Perhaps no treasury secretary has arrived with such an ample resume. All of her know-how was put to a severe test as she worked to assure multiple constituencies

Banking panics in high gear: money flies in the age of apps and social media

Álvaro Sánchez|Madrid

Cases such as those of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse show how the sector is facing new risks, such as the speed of fund outflows or the viral spread of bad news and rumors

Doubts about Deutsche Bank drag European banks into a Black Friday on the stock market

Álvaro Sánchez|Madrid

Shares of Germany’s largest bank fell more than 10%, bringing concerns about the health of the financial system back to the forefront

Ford’s plant in Tennessee could make 500,000 electric pickup trucks a year

The automaker says the assembly and battery plants will employ about 6,000 people with an investment of roughly $5.6 billion

Why the price of grain is giving the world a break

Denisse López

The Black Sea Grain Initiative has increased production, while the cost of fertilizer has declined. But experts warn the economy is ‘flying on one engine’

‘Creed III’ knocks out new audiences with Rocky’s old gloves

Javier Ocaña

Each installment of the new boxing saga has earned more money than the last, revitalizing Sylvester Stallone’s classic

Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan in ‘Creed III’.

Country music, movies, TV and preachers: How white Evangelicals fractured the United States

Fernando Navarro

The cover of the graphic novel ‘Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons’

Suffrajitsu: The women who used martial arts to fight for the vote

Eduardo Bravo

Russell Crowe in a promotional image for ‘The Pope’s Exorcist,’ where he plays Father Gabriele Amorth.

From levitations to evil mothers-in-law: The busy life of an exorcist in 2023

Jaime Lorite|Madrid

The ‘Nautilus’ submarine from Disney’s 1954 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.’

Are submersible super-yachts the next adventure for billionaire tourists?

Miquel Echarri|Barcelona

‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,’ painted in 1884 by Georges-Pierre Seurat. What many perceive as bucolic and calm is a source of anxiety and concern for others, due to a very simple fact: the next day is Monday.

Move over, Monday: Sunday is the new worst day of the week

Miquel Echarri|Barcelona

When our brain is busy thinking about other things, it stops thinking about what it considers unimportant, leading to absentmindedness.

Why did I come into the kitchen?: How stress can lead to everyday absentmindedness

MAR CARMENA

Listening to a book leaves one’s hands and eyes free, making literature compatible with routine activities such as walking and doing the laundry.

To book or audiobook? That is not the question

Karelia Vázquez

Mexican actress Melissa Barrera at the world premiere of ‘Scream VI,’ in Lincoln Square in New York, March 6, 2023.

Melissa Barrera’s path to the Hollywood dream

Andrés Rodríguez|Mexico

Xavier López Rodríguez receiving an award in Mexico City, in 2016.

‘Chabelo’ dies: Mexico mourns legendary children’s television presenter

Carmen Morán Breña|Mexico

From left to right: Sigourney Weaver, the star of the Alien movies; Pam Grier, the 'blaxploitation' movement icon; recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and pioneer Pearl White.

The unsung Hollywood action heroines who paved the way for Michelle Yeoh

Eva Güimil|Oviedo

Model Hailey Bieber (left) and actress and singer Selena Gomez.

Selena Gomez defends Hailey Bieber, who has received death threats: ‘No one should have to experience hate’

Andrea Jiménez

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, of Norway celebrates winning the gold medal in the final of the men's 1,500-meters at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Mexico plans Summer Olympics bid in 2036 or 2040

Interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics had earlier been expressed by officials in countries including Egypt, England, India, Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea

Track bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Semenya