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Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday.Yuki Iwamura (AP)

Tabloid publisher says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race

David Pecker is the first witness in Trump’s history-making hush money trial in Manhattan, where he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records

Prosecutor accuses Trump of ‘orchestrating a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election’

War in Gaza once again inflames American universities

Macarena Vidal Liy|Washington

Police arrested at least 47 people at Yale on Monday, four days after more than 100 arrests during pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia

Ein el-Hilweh, the massive Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon whose fate is linked to Gaza

Marta Maroto|Ein el Hilweh (Lebanon)

Spain’s PM speaks with leaders of Jordan, Egypt and PNA to finalize recognition of Palestine

Carlos E. Cué|Madrid

According to government sources the decision is imminent, although no specific date has been set yet

Officials from Mexico's attorney general's office unload hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and meth.

Xylazine, the animal sedative adulterating heroin and fentanyl in Mexicali and Tijuana

Alejandro Santos Cid|Mexico

The drug, which was already used as an opioid adulterant in the US and Canada and which significantly increases the risk of overdose, has now appeared in Mexico

US begins construction of high-speed train between Las Vegas and Southern California

Luis Pablo Beauregard|Los Angeles

Sergeant Petrichenko’s posthumous victory: Ukraine bans gambling in the army

Cristian Segura|Kyiv

The initiative of a soldier and activist who died in combat led to a presidential decree to tackle gambling addiction among Ukrainian troops

Ukraine’s star brigade in dire state due to lack of weapons and its own mistakes

The funeral of soldier and activist Pavlo Petrichenko, on April 19 in Kyiv.Valentyn Ogirenko (REUTERS)

Karim Bouyakhrichan after his arrest in Spain in an image provided by the National Police.

Judicial mix-up allows Mocro Maffia capo to go to ground in Spain after posting bail

Óscar López-Fonseca|Madrid

State police patrol the Monterrey - Nuevo Laredo highway in June 2021.

Wave of mass kidnappings puts Mexican state of Nuevo León on alert

Beatriz Guillén|Mexico

Dehorning of a black rhinoceros in a private game reserve located near the Kruger National Park in Phalabora, South Africa, in 2020.

South Africa rushes to dehorn rhinos to protect them from poachers

José Naranjo

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, this Sunday.

Noboa achieves resounding support for tougher security to deal with spiraling violence in Ecuador

Carolina Mella|Guayaquil

Oncologist Sarah Blagden, from the University of Oxford, photographed on April 16 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid.

Sarah Blagden, oncologist: ‘We should eventually have a vaccine that you get at age 40 that protects you from cancer’

Manuel Ansede|Madrid

The University of Oxford researcher is testing a revolutionary injection to prevent the appearance of lung cancer, the most common and deadly form of the disease

App that warns your loved ones if you watch porn is a hit with the Christian right in the US

Alba Álvarez

The Covenant Eyes application, used by hard-right Republicans, turns personal online search history into a confessional

Enrique Bunbury at the Palacio de Deportes in Mexico City in 2022.

Spanish-language music shakes off complexes and makes its mark on the global stage

Alex Serrano

In the United States, Latin music consumption registered a growth of 19.4 billion on-demand audio streams between 2021 and 2023, an increase of 24.1%

WhatsApp scams: How they work and what you can do to protect yourself

José Mendiola Zuriarrain

Cyber threat actors play on a victim’s emotion to try to convince them to send money

A couple plays Scrabble while sipping wine in a Los Angeles bar.

Fewer screens and more domino: Why playing cards and board games are staging a comeback in bars

Eva Güimil|Oviedo

The sight of a group of friends playing a game together is no longer confined to retirees. Young people are rediscovering Connect 4, Trivial Pursuit and chess

Freddie Highmore says goodbye to ‘The Good Doctor’: ‘It has given me stability in years of great uncertainty’

Natalia Marcos|Madrid

In the show’s seventh and final season, the protagonist, a doctor with autism, has become a father. ‘It’s like a graduation. It’s a bittersweet sensation,’ says the actor

Why British detective shows reign supreme

Sergio del Molino

The great mystery of these series is not the crimes being solved, but how each new production of such a hackneyed and exploited genre seems new and bold

Can we know how big a supernova will be before it happens?

Marina Cermeño Gavilán

The neutron core left after the collapse of a supermassive star determines the magnitude of the stellar explosion

How to deal with parental burnout

Carolina Pinedo|Madrid

Parents experience chronic stress because they neglect themselves, leading to long-lasting dissatisfaction, exhaustion and emotional distancing

Céline Dion at the Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Céline Dion speaks about her rare neurological disease: ‘It’s morally tough to live day by day’

María Porcel|Los Angeles

The singer announced two years ago that she suffers from Stiff Person Syndrome, which affects her muscles and her voice. Practically retired, she gave a long interview to ‘Vogue France’ where she talks about living with the severe illness and whether she will return to the stage

Johan Norberg: ‘Some time ago, they told me that I was far-right, and now, from the right, they tell me that I am a woke capitalist’

Ignacio Fariza

The Swedish historian, an advocate of classical liberalism, argues that for a certain sector of the right today, defending the beliefs of Thatcher and Reagan is being a ‘cultural Marxist’

Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor and Dan Schneider in 2007.J.M.

Drug addiction changes peoples’ priorities and leads them to ignore basic pleasures like food and sex. This image shows fentanyl consumers in San Francisco.

How drugs affect addicts’ brains so that they can even forget to eat and drink

Daniel Mediavilla

A study on mice suggests that a large part of neurons that regulate thirst and hunger are impacted by the impulses generated by cocaine and morphine

Food neophobia is a mild and temporary condition that usually occurs in picky, selective children with poor appetite.

Food neophobia, or when children do not want to try new foods

Cristina Bisbal Delgado|Madrid

Several examples with AI-generated images of Jesus Christ from a single day in April taken from the Love God & God Love You Facebook page.

Why Facebook has been filled with Jesus Christs made with eggs, spaghetti or cauliflowers

Jordi Pérez Colomé

Charan Ranganath in a photo provided by the neuroscientist.

Charan Ranganath, memory expert: ‘There are leaders who weaponize nostalgia to gain power and manipulate people’

Daniel Soufi|Madrid

From San José to Silicon Valley: Costa Rica is emerging as a hotbed for US chips

Álvaro Murillo|San José

Nurtured by Washington, multinationals and universities, the small Central American country is on its way to becoming a hub for integrated circuits

Venezuela’s economic crisis fueled by looting of its state-owned oil company

Alonso Moleiro|Caracas

PDVSA, the country’s main source of income, has been plundered by decades of corrupt and incompetent management

Crime and fentanyl hit California’s king of burgers

María Porcel|Los Ángeles

The In-N-Out chain has to close a restaurant for the first time due to a surge in robberies and violent acts in Oakland

Daron Acemoglu, the economist who says technological innovation does not equal prosperity

Mar Padilla

The Turkish-American researcher dismantles clichés. He argues that capitalism is based on the mistaken idea that human beings need to consume, when what they really need is to participate

From Mariana Enriquez’s chaos to the perfect workspace: What the disorder of our work desk says about us

Enrique Rey

Watching films can help us address personal problems from a distance and learn the skills that characters use to resolve their conflicts

Cinema therapy: can movies help us process grief or get over a breakup?

Isabel Rubio

A still from ‘Un amor,' an Isabel Coixet film.

Overcoming coitocentrism: How penetrative sex is losing ground

Lucía Franco

Between laziness and germophobia: How often should you wash your hands?

Ana Bulnes

From designing dog beds to leading ‘the Lamborghini of fashion’: The excessive world of Philipp Plein

Guillermo Arenas

The German designer doesn’t follow or start trends, but rather, responds to luxury’s most ostentatious desires and along the way, has attracted devotees like Cristiano Ronaldo and Floyd Mayweather