Tensions mount on Mexico-US border amid drones and shootouts
The deployment of troops to the Texas and Tamaulipas area over a possible attack on US Coast Guard personnel coincides with increased drone use by cartels
Checks for voters, Trump’s strategy to turn the midterms around
The president has promised payments ranging from $90 up to $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress
Key points from the Supreme Court case against the oil companies
The city of Boulder, Colorado is challenging the US energy sector
Should AI pay taxes? The debate is gaining traction in the US
Luis Har, former hostage in Gaza: ‘If it had been up to our government, we’d still be there’
The Argentine-Israeli, rescued by the IDF after 129 days in captivity, admits ‘resentment’ that it took so long to bring back the last captives
The Bolsonaro clan: A presidential hopeful, four new parliamentarians and a tangle of internal issues
A guide to navigating the family tree of the family that aims to return to power in Brazil while fighting over the political brand created by Jair, the patriarch
Venezuela confirms it did not seek Nicolás Maduro’s release or request immunity to prevent US trial
Prosecutors handling the case against the former head of state argue that neither the White House nor Miraflores Palace recognized Maduro as president, so neither should the federal court
The uncertainty of families of the 280,000 people missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine
The International Committee of the Red Cross helps relatives in Moscow who are searching for their loved ones
What authorities have said about plague alert after death of a laboratory worker in Russia
Health authorities maintain that the researcher died of a case of pneumonia of unknown cause
Three Afghans arrested in Kabul for playing in the Chess Olympiad: ‘We feel afraid, our situation is unsustainable’
The EU, the Spanish government and FIDE are undertaking efforts in support of the three chess players detained a week ago, while remaining cautiously optimistic
Mayito Flaco’s hidden past in the US
EL PAÍS has gained access to civil registry records and, based on that information, has pieced together part of the background of Ismael Zambada Sicairos, who inherited from his father a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel with a strong presence in Baja California
Leo Messi’s final appearance: Argentina bids farewell to its all-time record scorer
After 21 years, over 200 matches and 175 goals, Lionel Messi will play his final international match against Benin in Buenos Aires
Richard Dean Anderson, the iconic MacGyver: ‘He was different, a TV hero who didn’t use guns’
The actor who played the resourceful TV hero reunited with fans at San Diego Comic-Con Málaga. Now 76 and living a low-key life by the ocean, he admits he has little recollection of MacGyver’s unlikely trip to the Basque Country
Do Tutankhamun and Nefertiti share a tomb?
Two recent research campaigns have revived the hypothesis that the young king’s tomb is only part of a larger burial complex belonging to the queen
Brett Goldstein, the comedian who ran a strip club in Marbella before finding fame with 'Ted Lasso'
His role as Roy Kent has earned him two Emmys and opened doors to a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, a series alongside Harrison Ford and a stint as Hercules in the Marvel universe
The botanist who took 30 years to name 18 trees: 'It is a race against myself'
A researcher at Madrid’s Royal Botanic Garden has brought to light new tree species from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, but says there is still much work left to do
The dark side of Starship’s success: Musk sidelines NASA in his bid to dominate space
SpaceX is focused on its giant Starship rocket to expand the Starlink network and deploy orbital AI data centers, rather than on returning humans to the Moon or launching satellites for other customers
The migration routes of pollution: How ozone, Saharan dust and wildfire smoke cross borders
Victor Glover, Artemis 2 pilot: ‘This race, for us, is not about beating China to the Moon. We will, but this race is to get humans to Mars’
AI’s top leaders, like children afraid of a bully
Brett Christophers, economic geographer: ‘In contemporary capitalism, the right to housing does not exist’
The British academic and essayist, an expert on the strategies of investment funds, says the concept has been replaced by the right to ‘buy a house’
The founders of On, the phenomenon attracting Mbappé and Zendaya
Trump’s broken promise on crypto: a gold mine for his empire, multimillion-dollar losses for investors
The yield on the US 10-year Treasury reached its highest level in two decades. Why should you care?
Vincent Cassel: ‘There are things that are good for your career and others that you like: always do the latter’
The emblematic French actor, about to turn 60 and busy with the filming of the new season of ‘The White Lotus,’ becomes the hunchback of Notre-Dame in the film ‘Quasimodo’
Cannons and the glow after the crisis: ‘Good things really come from getting through tough times together’
After a hiatus caused by a health crisis that pushed them to their limits, the California band is making a triumphant return to the stage with their album ‘Everything Glows’
Tom Cruise vs. the world: Age jokes, Oscar hopes and a return to the spotlight
Jahel Queralt, essayist: ‘Those who most criticize meritocracy are those who need it the least’
The jurist and doctor in political science publishes new work that calls for restoring limits to inequalities and dismantling the morality of success
Eric Sadin: ‘AI reeks of death’
The French philosopher believes that artificial intelligence is a catastrophe that should have been banned
Work & Lifestyle
Turning offices into homes: Manhattan’s solution to its housing crisis... but with some risks
The just-world hypothesis and other mental traps that guide us, but that we can avoid
Johnny Cross, ‘the vegan butcher’: ‘I’ve been in the world 34 years and I’ve never eaten meat or fish, and I’m alive, I’m healthy’
Life and death by email: ‘How do you believe in God, professor?’
Celebrities, Movies & TV
Sylvester Stallone: ‘I don’t know what the new masculinities are. It’s in a man’s nature to conquer’
Lili Reinhart, the actress looking for success away from Hollywood clichés
Surviving Hurricane Otis: Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau crafts ambitious film about two sailors who lived to tell the tale
The miracle of ‘Romeo + Juliet’: How Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes and Baz Luhrmann reinvented Shakespeare
The bursting of the Cristiano Ronaldo bubble
The 41-year-old captain’s decision to leave the national team training camp appears to have brought an end to an era in which the star player was overhyped at the expense of Portugal’s collective performance in two World Cups
Our selection
Charles Spencer: ‘The tragedy of the royal family was not knowing how to embrace the opportunity that my sister Diana represented’
Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’
‘The truth is Cuba has already fallen’: the United States’ strategy to subdue the island
Volodymyr Zelenskiy to EL PAÍS, on the new Russian offensive against Kyiv: ‘Putin isn’t afraid of Europeans’
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