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US Senate approves debt ceiling bill to avoid default

President Biden is expected to sign it into law on Friday, just three days before the government runs out of money

Trump and DeSantis jab at each other on campaign trail in first dueling appearances as 2024 candidates

The former president was in Iowa, while the Florida Governor campaigned in New Hampshire, but both referenced the other heavily

Two people walk through the Sau reservoir, in Girona, on April 16, 2023.

Seven of the nine thresholds that allow for human life on earth have already been crossed

Miguel Ángel Criado

A new report quantifies the climatic, natural and pollutant limits that ensure the safe and orderly maintenance of civilization

Jimmy Butler grabs a rebound off Nikola Jokic in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Nuggets crush Heat in NBA Finals Game 1 to lay down marker in Ball Arena fortress

Luis Pablo Beauregard|Denver

Money stored in Venmo and other payment apps could be vulnerable, says financial watchdog

The alert comes after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank

Chinese President Xi Jinping during the first China-CELAC Forum meeting held in Beijing in January 2015.

China’s growing power in Latin America

Alicia García Herrero

Members of the EZLN in the community of Morelia (Chiapas) in April 2021.

Mexico’s Zapatistas warn Chiapas is on ‘the verge of civil war’

Alejandro Santos Cid|Mexico

Raghida Naim, at her home in Chouaifet El Aamroussieh, on the outskirts of Beirut, last November.

Living through ‘the same hell twice’: Crisis hits Venezuelans who fled to Lebanon

Antonio Pita / Florantonia Singer|Chouaifet El Aamroussieh (Lebanon) / Caracas

Matteo Salvini, in his office at the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation on May 31.

Matteo Salvini: ‘The hypothesis of a center-right majority in the EU Parliament is closer’

Daniel Verdú|Rome

President Joe Biden talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, before traveling to Colorado.

Senate passes GOP bill overturning student loan cancellation, teeing it up for Biden veto

The Supreme Court heard arguments in February in a challenge to Biden’s move, with the conservative majority seemingly ready to sink the plan. A decision is expected in the coming weeks

Know any airplane mechanics? A wave of retirements leaves some US industries desperate to hire

Across the U.S. economy, other industries, too, face the same formidable challenge: Replenishing a workforce diminished by a surge of retirements that began during the pandemic

The Activision Blizzard Booth appears during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 13, 2013.

‘Diablo IV’ is almost here. What to know about the video game’s coming release

Access for the highly anticipated action role-playing game begins Thursday night — ahead of next week’s official launch. ‘Diablo IV’ marks the latest installment of Blizzard Entertainment’s ‘Diablo’ series

Sotheby’s buys modernist Breuer building from Whitney Museum, will move NYC galleries there

It will start moving its New York sale room and galleries to the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in 2024. The facility will open to the public in 2025

Raquel Sipp kneels with a candle at the scene of where an apartment building partially collapsed two days earlier, in Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

‘Do I have regrets? ... Hell yeah,’ says Davenport mayor after partial collapse of Iowa building

The state’s search and rescue team, search dogs and cameras were used Thursday to continue combing the building for missing people

Venezuelan Edgar Ramirez in a moment of 'Florida Man', one of his successful forays into U.S. television.

Edgar Ramírez: ‘Violence in fiction is fantasy; it’s sublimation. What book is more violent than the Bible?’

Héctor Llanos Martínez|Madrid

The Venezuelan actor, currently one of the most popular Latin Americans in film and television, does not shy away from voicing his political opinions in a Hollywood he sees as increasingly polarized

Practicing stoicism to confront uncomfortable situations

Patricia Fernández Martín

Good mental health requires facing suffering in a different way. Philosophy provides the tools for strengthening one’s spirit and combatting frustration

Joanne Cameron has genetic mutations that protect her from pain and anxiety.

A woman immune to pain and anxiety opens new avenues for treatment of injuries and stress

Daniel Mediavilla

The study of a patient who has rare mutation in her FAAH-OUT gene opens the door to the development of pain relievers that don’t carry the addictive risk of opioids

The rise, fall and reinvention of memes

Karelia Vázquez

Seven years ago, these internet parodies were declared dead by experts, but today there are advertising agencies and festivals dedicated to them

Federico García Lorca, pictured in 1919 at the age of 20.

Federico García Lorca, the musician: How the poet elevated flamenco and Spanish folklore

Fernando Navarro

A less well-known side of the genius from Granada is his musical talent. He was a great pianist and connoisseur of Andalusian music, whose status he raised with his vision and poetic rhetoric

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as seen on the far side of the Dnipro River from Ostriv, has been under Moscow's control since March 2022.

STAGE SIX

Life under the shadow of Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia

Residents lining up for humanitarian aid in Konstantynivka.

STAGE FIVE

Zoom classes between bombardments at the gates of Bakhmut

Members of the 1st company of the 63rd Infantry Brigade on the Liman front in the Donetsk region.

STAGE FOUR

Video games, tea and drones on the front lines

Serhii and Olga Portianov's house in the village of Kamianka was occupied by Russian troops for months.

STAGE THREE

A wedding anniversary on the highway of horror

A couple walk past a bombed-out house in Kupiansk.

STAGE TWO

Ukrainians track Russian missiles on Telegram between beers and snacks

STAGE ONE

Ukraine: A journey to the front that has the world on edge

Awake despite an open skull: The complex surgery to save Ani’s five languages

Jessica Mouzo / Gianluca Battista

A woman with a vascular malformation in her brain undergoes a peculiar medical intervention. While she is fully conscious, neurosurgeons map the language areas before removing the lesion to protect her vast linguistic skills

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson before the interview.

Bill Nelson, head of NASA: ‘We want to protect the water on the Moon to prevent China from taking it over’

Nuño Domínguez

NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects

Farmer Pravinbhai Parmar cleans a solar panel installed at a farm in Dhundi village of Kheda district in western Indian Gujarat state, India, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.

India pauses plans to add new coal plants for five years. Now it bets on renewables and batteries

Two people with their laptops in a coffee shop in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2014.

The definitive guide to VPNs: From protecting information to buying cheap tickets

Clara Rebollo

Pictured, a crab is trapped in a plastic cup in the sea in the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines in March 2019.

Can a plastic bottle made of 65% recycled material be considered green?

Jose Sanz Sainz|Madrid

Undercover, persecuted or in exile: How journalists are resisting in Central America

El País|Nicaragua / San Salvador / Ohio

Three journalists from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala provide a first-person account of what it’s like to continue reporting on reality despite the authoritarian onslaught in the region and the criminalization of their work

Undercover, persecuted or in exile: How journalists are resisting in Central America

This photo provided by the chipmaker Nvidia shows the company’s HGX H100 module, which can use as many as eight AI chips to train artificial intelligence systems and perform other tasks.

AI chips are hot. Here’s what they are, what they’re for and why investors see gold

The chips and their leading designer, Nvidia, are now at the center of what some experts consider an AI revolution that could reshape the technology sector and possibly the world along with it

Amid tech war with US, China redoubles AI and microchip efforts

The AI black box, the perfect boost for a market at a standstill

Nuño Rodrigo Palacios

The expectations raised by ChatGPT have excited the market, but the pace at which generative AI can be turned into money remains to be seen

Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after Adidas cut ties with Kanye West

Earlier this month, CEO Bjørn Gulden announced the company would be selling a portion of the remaining inventory and donating some of the proceeds to social justice organizations

Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate

The lunchtime protest on Wednesday comes a week after the company’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to return to the office three days per week

A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss.

US births in 2022 didn’t return to pre-pandemic levels

Matt Pinkett, writer: ‘Boys need to be taught the benefits of having a bromance’

Enrique Alpañés

Talk to me in bed: The importance of erotic communication

Rita Abundancia|Madrid

Alejandra and her son Alejandro in a park in Gijón, Asturias. May 9, 2023.

Bored and alone, underprivileged minors turn to screens for escapism

Inés Sánchez-Manjavacas Castaño

The mosaic represents Alexander the Great’s battle with Darius III. It was found in Pompeii’s House of the Faun and is conserved in Naples’ Archaeological Museum.

The odyssey of restoring the most famous Roman mosaic in the world: Seven tons, two million pieces and a 2,000-year-old mortar

Guillermo Altares|Naples

Bizarrap and Peso Pluma in an image shared by the Mexican on his social networks on May 31, 2023.

Peso Pluma bolsters boom in Mexican music with Bizarrap

Rodrigo Soriano|Mexico

The king of ‘corridos tumbados’ joins the producer in his ‘BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 55′ with a song that owes more to the regional subgenre than to the Argentine electronic sound

Passersby walk past a shop window in Tokyo displaying advertisements for the new 'Zelda' video game.

50-year-old men hooked on a video game: The appeal of the new ‘Zelda’

Enrique Alpañés

‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ has transcended the world of gamers to become a social phenomenon with sales in the millions

'Untitled: fallen-gunstyresandplacard' (2015) by Phyllida Barlow, exhibited alongside the Zabalaga farmhouse at the Chillida-Leku Museum in Spain.

Phyllida Barlow: Sculptures that use space as a material

Silvia Hernando|Hernani (Spain)

The recently deceased British artist’s exhibit at the Chillida-Leku Museum in Spain features large-scale pieces to walk around, made with perishable materials that reflect the passage of time