<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSun, 07 Jun 2026 01:04:49 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[The flip side of New York’s skyline: Crumbling public housing ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-05-16/the-flip-side-of-new-yorks-skyline-crumbling-public-housing.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-05-16/the-flip-side-of-new-yorks-skyline-crumbling-public-housing.htmlSat, 16 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000Although the New York skyline seems to consist only of luxury skyscrapers – pencil towers so exclusive that there is just one apartment to each floor – social housing is also part of the equation and is currently torn between demand and ruin. Through the municipal agency NYCHA, the city has offered reduced rents to low- and moderate-income residents since the 1930s, and currently houses 298,206 people in 152,926 apartments, distributed in 243 residential complexes that are popularly known as “the projects.” That means home to nearly one in 20 New Yorkers, mostly African-Americans and Latinos.

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]]>John Smith (VIEWpress / Getty Images)<![CDATA[The United Nations is seeking a peacemaker in a world plagued by conflict]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-10/the-united-nations-is-seeking-a-peacemaker-in-a-world-plagued-by-conflict.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-10/the-united-nations-is-seeking-a-peacemaker-in-a-world-plagued-by-conflict.htmlSun, 10 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000Not so long ago, in the final decades of the 20th century, the United Nations was the arbiter of international law, and its secretary-general was almost a full‑time peacemaker. Today, negotiations to resolve wars and conflicts fall to businesspeople friendly with U.S. President Donald Trump or to third-party countries, often emerging powers (Qatar as mediator in Gaza, or Pakistan in the war against Iran), which have co-opted the organization’s historic role as interlocutor. On the eve of electing its next secretary-general, the U.N.’s peacemaking dimension takes on particular significance after the organization’s paralysis in recent conflicts: Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon...

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]]>Stringer<![CDATA[Navy Secretary’s dismissal for differences with Hegseth sparks new unrest at the Pentagon ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-23/navy-secretarys-dismissal-for-differences-with-hegseth-sparks-new-unrest-at-the-pentagon.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-23/navy-secretarys-dismissal-for-differences-with-hegseth-sparks-new-unrest-at-the-pentagon.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:53:05 +0000U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan has been dismissed in a new wartime shake‑up at the Pentagon, coming just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Army’s highest‑ranking general from his post.

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]]>Jessica Koscielniak<![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp, the creator who made art without his hands]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-13/marcel-duchamp-the-creator-who-made-art-without-his-hands.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-13/marcel-duchamp-the-creator-who-made-art-without-his-hands.htmlMon, 13 Apr 2026 10:39:54 +0000A century before a banana duct-taped to a wall blew up the very definition of art, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, an upside-down, prefabricated porcelain urinal mounted on a pedestal and signed with a pseudonym in 1917, was already making history as a seminal work of the avant-garde and, by extension, as an example of the renewal, or reinvention, of art. Duchamp went down in history for this creation, and for painting a mustache and goatee on an image of the Mona Lisa, but over more than six decades of his career, he explored every style and rode the wave of those that followed, from Impressionism to Dadaism and Calder-like installations. His work is a perfect chronology of 20th-century art, but so too is the lively biography of its creator.

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]]>Angel Colmenares<![CDATA[Contradictions and threats: Donald Trump’s mixed messages on Iran]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-08/contradictions-and-threats-donald-trumps-mixed-messages-on-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-08/contradictions-and-threats-donald-trumps-mixed-messages-on-iran.htmlWed, 08 Apr 2026 09:36:34 +0000Donald Trump’s war against Iran has been marked by a relentless series of contradictions. The U.S. president has repeatedly walked back his own announcements and promises — sometimes within days, and at times within mere hours — both regarding his real objective in the war (regime change, or preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons?) and the duration of the offensive (initially four or five weeks, then three, later two, and now indefinitely). The campaign, launched at Israel’s urging, has also featured operations that, far from being coordinated, have at times unfolded haphazardly, without the other military partner even being informed.

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[Judge refuses to dismiss narcoterrorism case against Nicolás Maduro and his wife]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-26/judge-refuses-to-dismiss-narcoterrorism-case-against-nicolas-maduro-and-his-wife.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-26/judge-refuses-to-dismiss-narcoterrorism-case-against-nicolas-maduro-and-his-wife.htmlThu, 26 Mar 2026 18:58:06 +0000Nicolás Maduro, ousted from power in Venezuela on January 3 by a U.S. military intervention, and his wife, Cilia Flores, returned to the federal court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday. The judge presiding over the case, 92-year-old Alvin Hellerstein, rejected the defense’s request to dismiss the case during the hearing.

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]]>Jane Rosenberg<![CDATA[Venezuela’s ousted leader Maduro heads back to New York court for key hearing in ‘narco-terrorism’ case]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-26/venezuelas-ousted-leader-maduro-heads-back-to-new-york-court-for-key-hearing-in-narco-terrorism-case.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-26/venezuelas-ousted-leader-maduro-heads-back-to-new-york-court-for-key-hearing-in-narco-terrorism-case.htmlThu, 26 Mar 2026 09:09:18 +0000Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are heading back to federal court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday for a second hearing following their arrest in January, as part of what’s expected to be a long and arduous process. Their lawyers are claiming that the U.S. government is “illegally blocking” the Venezuelan state funds needed to pay their legal fees, which would deprive the couple of freely choosing their lawyers.

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]]>Jane Rosenberg<![CDATA[Will Michelle Bachelet become the next UN Secretary-General? What the forecasts are saying]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-25/will-michelle-bachelet-become-the-next-un-secretary-general-what-the-forecasts-are-saying.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-25/will-michelle-bachelet-become-the-next-un-secretary-general-what-the-forecasts-are-saying.htmlWed, 25 Mar 2026 10:02:18 +0000By withdrawing its support for former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet’s candidacy, the current government of Chile on Tuesday brought the race to succeed António Guterres as United Nations Secretary-General to the forefront of current events. Four other candidates are vying for the position. Though overshadowed by the war in the Middle East, the significance of the process is underscored by the fact that, for the first time in the organization’s history, a woman could hold this position. This possibility is doubly, even triply, significant: not only because of the large critical mass in favor of female leadership, amplified by, among others, the global platform GWL Voices; but also because, of the five candidates to succeed Guterres, three are women: Bachelet, Costa Rican politician and economist Rebeca Grynspan, and Argentina’s Virginia Gamba, former UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

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]]><![CDATA[The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-18/the-united-states-loses-its-status-as-a-liberal-democracy-trump-is-aiming-for-a-dictatorship.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-18/the-united-states-loses-its-status-as-a-liberal-democracy-trump-is-aiming-for-a-dictatorship.htmlWed, 18 Mar 2026 15:11:39 +0000Democratic backsliding is advancing in the developed world. The annual report from Sweden’s V-Dem Institute leaves no room for doubt: almost a quarter of the world experienced democratic backsliding, or a shift towards autocratization, in 2025, and six of the 10 newly regressive countries identified in the research are located in Europe and North America, including G-7 powers such as Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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]]>JIM LO SCALZO<![CDATA[New York police investigating possible jihadist motivation behind attack on far-right march near Zohran Mamdani’s residence]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-09/new-york-police-investigating-possible-jihadist-motivation-behind-attack-near-zohran-mamdanis-residence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-09/new-york-police-investigating-possible-jihadist-motivation-behind-attack-near-zohran-mamdanis-residence.htmlMon, 09 Mar 2026 19:11:40 +0000New York City police are investigating a possible jihadist motive behind the throwing of a homemade explosive device outside the official residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The failed attack occurred on Saturday following an Islamophobic protest organized by a well-known far-right agitator, which was met by a larger counter-protest. No one was injured, but the FBI is now investigating whether the incident may have been inspired by the tactics of the Islamic State (ISIS). Federal prosecutors are expected to unveil charges against the two people arrested for throwing the device at protesters attending a far-right rally in the vicinity of Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City.

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]]>Sarah Yáñez-Richards<![CDATA[The Columbia University influencer who was detained by ICE and released by Zohran Mamdani]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-06/the-columbia-university-influencer-who-was-detained-by-ice-and-released-by-zohran-mamdani.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-06/the-columbia-university-influencer-who-was-detained-by-ice-and-released-by-zohran-mamdani.htmlFri, 06 Mar 2026 17:28:33 +0000On the long list of unjustified actions by ICE, Donald Trump’s immigration police — among others, that of the arrest of a five-year-old boy in Minneapolis or the deportation order handed down to an Iranian woman adopted in the U.S. half a century ago — perhaps few stand out as much, due to their absurdity, as the arrest of Elmina Aghayeva, an Azerbaijani student of neuroscience and politics at Columbia, who in the early hours of February 26 was taken from the campus residence where she lives by federal agents.

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]]><![CDATA[New York discovers the rat-killing effect of extreme cold]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-23/new-york-discovers-the-rat-killing-effect-of-extreme-cold.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-23/new-york-discovers-the-rat-killing-effect-of-extreme-cold.htmlMon, 23 Feb 2026 14:07:02 +0000The extreme winter weather gripping New York City, where 20 people have died from the cold in just 18 days, could have an unexpected side-effect: a decrease in the rat population. Fed up with trying to combat the presence of rodents in parks, streets, and subway tunnels using countless methods, including the appointment of a rat czar, the city views this winter’s historic extreme temperatures as an effective form of natural selection.

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]]>Scott Heins<![CDATA[New York City declares state of emergency as it faces worst winter storm in a decade]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-23/new-york-city-declares-state-of-emergency-as-it-faces-worst-winter-storm-in-a-decade.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-23/new-york-city-declares-state-of-emergency-as-it-faces-worst-winter-storm-in-a-decade.htmlMon, 23 Feb 2026 10:55:34 +0000New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a citywide state of emergency on Sunday in anticipation of a heavy snowstorm expected to last at least 36 hours, beginning Sunday night. The measures include a ban on road travel for trucks, cars, motorcycles and even bicycles because of “dangerous blizzard conditions,” and to keep the streets clear for essential services, such as the 700 salt spreaders already deployed on the streets. The road closures will also affect public transit connections to the neighboring state of New Jersey. A total of 5,200 municipal cleaning and sanitation workers are on standby, working special 12-hour shifts.

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]]>Eduardo Munoz<![CDATA[Man fatally shot by Secret Service after trying to break into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-22/man-fatally-shot-by-secret-service-after-trying-to-break-into-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-22/man-fatally-shot-by-secret-service-after-trying-to-break-into-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence.htmlSun, 22 Feb 2026 15:28:54 +0000Secret Service agents, the officials in charge of protecting U.S. presidents, shot and killed an armed man early on Sunday after he illegally breached the security perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach estate in Florida where U.S. President Donald Trump usually spends his weekends. Trump, however, was not there at the time; he was in Washington at the White House with his wife, Melania Trump.

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]]>Steve Helber<![CDATA[New York has come down with gambling fever ]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-10-26/new-york-has-come-down-with-gambling-fever.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-10-26/new-york-has-come-down-with-gambling-fever.htmlSun, 26 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000New York City has come down with gambling fever: in just one of its boroughs, eight casino construction projects are on the table. A state board created specifically to grant licenses will announce its decisions before the end of the year. Five initiatives will be discarded and only three licenses will be approved. And this unusual fervor has even touched the Trump Organization, as one of the proposed projects would be built on the golf course formerly managed by the Republican president’s empire in the Bronx.

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]]>Yuvraj Khanna (BLOOMBERG)<![CDATA[CIA activity against Venezuelan leaders revives specter of US interventionism in Latin America]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-20/cia-activity-against-venezuelan-leaders-revives-specter-of-us-interventionism-in-latin-america.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-20/cia-activity-against-venezuelan-leaders-revives-specter-of-us-interventionism-in-latin-america.htmlMon, 20 Oct 2025 08:36:32 +0000The long and often sinister history of U.S. intervention in Latin America appears to be about to enter a new chapter. After a 20th century full of active interference, sometimes overt, such as the 1989 invasion of Panama — and other times, supposedly covert, such as the sponsorship of the 1973 coup in Chile against Salvador Allende — the Trump administration has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela. Add to this the five attacks on alleged drug boats and a small submarine in the Caribbean, and the strange withdrawal of the head of the Southern Command, in charge of military operations in the region, two years ahead of schedule, and the pressure on Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro becomes even more direct.

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]]> Cristóbal Basaure Araya<![CDATA[Melania Trump claims she is in contact with Putin to repatriate Ukrainian minors forcibly transferred to Russia]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-10/melania-trump-claims-she-is-in-contact-with-putin-to-repatriate-ukrainian-minors-forcibly-transferred-to-russia.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-10/melania-trump-claims-she-is-in-contact-with-putin-to-repatriate-ukrainian-minors-forcibly-transferred-to-russia.htmlFri, 10 Oct 2025 18:58:55 +0000In a formally announced statement from the White House, U.S. First Lady Melania Trump said Friday that she is in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to repatriate Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia, and that some have already been returned to their families. “This remains an ongoing effort,” she stated.

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]]>SHAWN THEW<![CDATA[Government shutdown threatens food assistance program relied on by seven million families ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-08/government-shutdown-threatens-food-assistance-program-relied-on-by-seven-million-families.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-08/government-shutdown-threatens-food-assistance-program-relied-on-by-seven-million-families.htmlWed, 08 Oct 2025 08:36:48 +0000A U.S. federal program that has long enjoyed bipartisan support, serving nearly 7 million pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children under five, and that has been shown to improve the health of low-income families, is also on hold due to the government shutdown. Its beneficiaries are expected to feel the impact within one to two weeks.

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]]>John Clark<![CDATA[Netanyahu denies Gaza famine as delegates walk out in protest at UN Assembly ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-26/netanyahu-denies-gaza-famine-as-delegates-walk-out-in-protest-at-un-assembly.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-26/netanyahu-denies-gaza-famine-as-delegates-walk-out-in-protest-at-un-assembly.htmlFri, 26 Sep 2025 18:13:43 +0000A defiant Benjamin Netanyahu railed against a virtually empty UN General Assembly this Friday, after more than two-thirds of the delegates had already left the room. Some European delegations, including the Spanish one, had not even attended the session, in a concerted effort to distance themselves from Israel.

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]]>Jeenah Moon<![CDATA[Zelenskiy defends the need to rearm at the UN: ‘The only guarantee of security is friends and weapons’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-24/zelenskiy-defends-the-need-to-rearm-at-the-un-the-only-guarantee-of-security-is-friends-and-weapons.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-24/zelenskiy-defends-the-need-to-rearm-at-the-un-the-only-guarantee-of-security-is-friends-and-weapons.htmlWed, 24 Sep 2025 17:25:48 +0000Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy defended the need to rearm amid what he called “the most destructive arms race in human history” at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, arguing that “The only guarantee of security is friends and weapons.”

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]]>KENA BETANCUR<![CDATA[Macron refutes Trump’s UN speech with a defense of multilateralism over ‘might is right’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-24/macron-refutes-trumps-un-speech-with-a-defense-of-multilateralism-over-might-is-right.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-24/macron-refutes-trumps-un-speech-with-a-defense-of-multilateralism-over-might-is-right.htmlWed, 24 Sep 2025 07:55:24 +0000United Nations Secretary General António Guterres stated on Tuesday morning that the principles of the U.N. “are under siege,” and U.S. President Donald Trump was quick to prove his point, launching a blistering attack on each and every one of the cooperation and development goals the organization defends.

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]]>Alexander Drago<![CDATA[Trump lashes out at the UN in a speech aimed at undermining global institutions]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-23/trump-lashes-out-at-the-un-in-a-speech-aimed-at-undermining-global-institutions.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-23/trump-lashes-out-at-the-un-in-a-speech-aimed-at-undermining-global-institutions.htmlTue, 23 Sep 2025 17:41:32 +0000With a speech that broke the most basic rules of diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump used the U.N. General Assembly podium to promote himself as peacemaker-in-chief — solving wars that the U.N. is incapable of ending, he stressed — and as the statesman who has restored the U.S. to a golden age. He also cast himself as the scourge of anything that smacks of multilateralism, including sustainable development, one of the organization’s stated goals.

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]]>Richard Drew<![CDATA[Global recognition of Palestine underscores US and Israel’s isolation at the UN]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-22/global-recognition-of-palestine-underscores-us-and-israels-isolation-at-the-un.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-22/global-recognition-of-palestine-underscores-us-and-israels-isolation-at-the-un.htmlMon, 22 Sep 2025 07:43:39 +0000The genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza according to an independent commission appointed by the United Nations, along with the recognition of Palestinian statehood by key U.S. partners and allies such as France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada (the latter three did so this past Sunday), will monopolize the opening of the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly, which is being held this week at the organization’s headquarters in New York.

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]]><![CDATA[Global impact of the US slamming the door on vaccines: ‘We are giving up the most powerful weapon we have against pandemics’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-19/global-impact-of-the-us-slamming-the-door-on-vaccines-we-are-giving-up-the-most-powerful-weapon-we-have-against-pandemics.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-19/global-impact-of-the-us-slamming-the-door-on-vaccines-we-are-giving-up-the-most-powerful-weapon-we-have-against-pandemics.htmlTue, 19 Aug 2025 08:48:08 +0000The US’s $500 million cut in messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine research is not just another reduction. The budgetary gap slows the progress of a promising technology that proved effective during the Covid pandemic and is the great hope for quickly halting other similar public health threats. It also fuels distrust in vaccines. While Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismisses the vaccine advisory committee with a stroke of his pen to appoint candidates more aligned with an ideology that often clashes with scientific evidence, international public health experts are concerned about the crumbling of a key element of the global architecture for preparing for health emergencies.

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]]>Kent Nishimura<![CDATA[US targets United Cartels, offering a $26 million reward for five of its members]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-14/us-targets-united-cartels-offering-a-26-million-reward-for-five-of-its-members.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-14/us-targets-united-cartels-offering-a-26-million-reward-for-five-of-its-members.htmlThu, 14 Aug 2025 18:31:09 +0000The United States Department of Justice on Thursday offered a $26 million reward for information leading to the arrest of five high-ranking members of Cárteles Unidos, known in English as United Cartels, while the Treasury Department separately announced it would impose sanctions on the group.

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]]>Evelyn Hockstein<![CDATA[US claims it has seized $700 million of Nicolás Maduro’s assets]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-14/us-claims-it-has-seized-700-million-of-nicolas-maduros-assets.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-14/us-claims-it-has-seized-700-million-of-nicolas-maduros-assets.htmlThu, 14 Aug 2025 09:46:03 +0000The U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, posted on its social media account Wednesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had announced the seizure of assets worth $700 million from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, including “mansions, cars, planes, and jewelry.” The post includes a brief excerpt from an interview with Bondi on the conservative Fox News channel, in which the attorney general explains the reasons for the seizure.

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]]>JIM LO SCALZO<![CDATA[The future of same-sex marriage rights in the US is at stake in the Supreme Court]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-14/the-future-of-same-sex-marriage-rights-in-the-us-is-at-stake-in-the-supreme-court.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-14/the-future-of-same-sex-marriage-rights-in-the-us-is-at-stake-in-the-supreme-court.htmlThu, 14 Aug 2025 08:20:08 +0000Same-sex marriage in the United States, the right to which was expanded 10 years ago nationwide, may be in danger of disappearing if the Supreme Court rules in favor of a government official who, on religious grounds, refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. The official was sentenced to a substantial fine and six days in jail for contempt of court for doing so. The case of Kim Davis, who was the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, in 2015 was followed by others such as the pastry chef who, in 2017, refused to make a wedding cake for the marriage of two men, also citing religious beliefs, and whom the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a year later, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House.

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]]>Joshua Roberts<![CDATA[Trump orders US army to combat foreign drug cartels]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-08/trump-orders-us-army-to-combat-foreign-drug-cartels.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-08/trump-orders-us-army-to-combat-foreign-drug-cartels.htmlFri, 08 Aug 2025 19:34:55 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to use the military to carry out law enforcement against foreign drug cartels. The Republican’s decree provides an official basis for undertaking direct military operations on foreign soil and in corresponding territorial waters against organized criminal groups.

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]]>Jorge Duenes<![CDATA[Trump increases his control over economic data after firing the head of labor statistics]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-05/trump-increases-his-control-over-economic-data-after-firing-the-head-of-labor-statistics.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-05/trump-increases-his-control-over-economic-data-after-firing-the-head-of-labor-statistics.htmlTue, 05 Aug 2025 10:42:51 +0000US President Donald Trump has two prime opportunities to intervene in the country’s economic policy: the appointments of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles employment data, and the replacement for Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler. The first, Erika McEntarfer, was abruptly fired on Friday due to poor employment data for July; the second resigned that same day.

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]]>Carlos Barria<![CDATA[Gunman kills four in mass shooting at New York City office building ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-29/gunman-kills-four-in-mass-shooting-at-new-york-city-office-building.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-29/gunman-kills-four-in-mass-shooting-at-new-york-city-office-building.htmlTue, 29 Jul 2025 10:43:22 +0000New York City was the scene of something right out of an action movie on Monday evening. But it was pure reality, and the deployment of police in search of the suspect who shot and killed a police officer and three other people in a Manhattan office building was anything but fictional. The attacker, identified as 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura, also wounded a fifth person before taking his own life.

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]]>Angelina Katsanis<![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy strengthens Trumpism with his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement ]]>https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-07-21/robert-f-kennedy-strengthens-trumpism-with-his-make-america-healthy-again-movement.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/health/2025-07-21/robert-f-kennedy-strengthens-trumpism-with-his-make-america-healthy-again-movement.htmlMon, 21 Jul 2025 09:14:38 +0000The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is finalizing the departure of thousands of employees after a Supreme Court ruling last week cleared the way for the massive layoffs undertaken by the Donald Trump administration. That’s in terms of the department’s structure; when it comes to its substance—theoretically, the management of public health—its leader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not need any help to gut it. Purges in his management team, controversial claims that doctors are profiting from vaccines, and an apparent dereliction of responsibilities, including failing to take action against the largest measles epidemic in the country in 33 years—a disease declared eradicated in 2000—characterize Kennedy’s performance during the first six months of his term.

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]]>Ken Cedeno<![CDATA[US Congress slashes all funding of public television and ‘Sesame Street’ as part of $9 billion in budget cuts]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-18/us-congress-slashes-all-funding-of-public-television-and-sesame-street-as-part-of-9-billion-in-budget-cuts.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-18/us-congress-slashes-all-funding-of-public-television-and-sesame-street-as-part-of-9-billion-in-budget-cuts.htmlFri, 18 Jul 2025 19:49:40 +0000During the early hours of Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives definitively approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut $9 billion from both PBS, which airs the popular show Sesame Street and other programs, as well as foreign aid. The former, according to Republicans, due to bias and overt progressivism and the latter, unprofitability and being mired in bureaucracy.

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]]>Daniel Reinhardt<![CDATA[Trump tries to stem the MAGA movement’s rebellion over the Epstein case]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-14/trump-tries-to-stem-the-maga-movements-rebellion-over-the-epstein-case.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-14/trump-tries-to-stem-the-maga-movements-rebellion-over-the-epstein-case.htmlMon, 14 Jul 2025 07:34:47 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump defended Attorney General Pam Bondi this weekend with a social media post meant to quell the criticism from some of his followers over the administration’s handling of the so-called “Epstein Files,” involving the late financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The MAGA movement has long supported conspiracy theories about the fate of the tycoon, who died by suicide in August 2019 in his New York prison cell while awaiting trial. The Attorney General recently claimed there was “no list,“ despite having earlier said that the list — presumably containing the names of Epstein’s clients — was on her desk. In a Saturday post on his social media platform, Truth Social, the president enthusiastically defended Bondi, asserting that she is doing “a FANTASTIC JOB,” in his usual emphatic capital letters. But by the early hours of Monday (ET), the post had received over 44,611 replies, more than the number of likes (39,400) or shares (12,800), an unusual ratio even on a platform where the vast majority of users are normally sympathetic to Trump. Some of the comments accused the president of “gaslighting” them on this issue and warned him that it will “kill MAGA.”

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]]>Ken Cedeno<![CDATA[Trump takes aim at Ivy League universities]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-21/trump-takes-aim-at-us-university-elites.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-21/trump-takes-aim-at-us-university-elites.htmlWed, 21 May 2025 07:59:36 +0000The endowment or reserve fund of each of the eight universities that make up the United States’ prestigious Ivy League would be enough to solve the economic problems of dozens of countries. Harvard University, the richest of them all, has an endowment of $53 billion, the sum of the GDPs of Iceland, Madagascar and Aruba, and more than the GDP of over 120 nations, including Tunisia and Bahrain.

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]]>Kyle Mazza (Anadolu / Getty Images)<![CDATA[Lisa Mosconi, neuroscientist: ‘Menopause is making women feel less valuable than before’]]>https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-05-04/lisa-mosconi-neuroscientist-menopause-is-making-women-feel-less-valuable-than-before.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/health/2025-05-04/lisa-mosconi-neuroscientist-menopause-is-making-women-feel-less-valuable-than-before.htmlSun, 04 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000The work of neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi, whose name appears on The Times’ list of the world’s most influential scientists, addresses the relationship between menopause and the brain from a comprehensive perspective, a field she has been working on “since 2010, when no one was talking about it.” An Italian who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, she is a professor of neuroscience at Cornell University, where she directs two programs: the Women’s Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic. The Spanish-language launch of her third book, Menopause and the Brain, coincides with the presentation of her latest and most ambitious project, CARE, which aims to “reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s through endocrinology,” with 16 working groups and a budget of $50 million.

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]]>Corrie Aune<![CDATA[The Met Fashion Gala surrenders to the power of African-American dandies]]>https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-05-06/the-met-fashion-gala-surrenders-to-the-power-of-african-american-dandies.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-05-06/the-met-fashion-gala-surrenders-to-the-power-of-african-american-dandies.htmlTue, 06 May 2025 11:02:40 +0000Black dandyism is this year’s theme at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (Met) Costume Institute exhibition and its eponymous gala. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the title of this exhibition, revolves around a style that combines the display of creative, well-tailored menswear with the attitude of the wearer.

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]]>SARAH YENESEL<![CDATA[Fresh off election victory, Canada’s leader plans to begin talks with Trump administration ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-30/fresh-off-election-victory-canadas-leader-plans-to-begin-talks-with-trump-administration.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-30/fresh-off-election-victory-canadas-leader-plans-to-begin-talks-with-trump-administration.htmlWed, 30 Apr 2025 09:43:12 +0000For the first time in almost a century, Canada’s two main parties, which have alternated in power for decades, each obtained around 43% of the vote in the parliamentary elections held this Monday. The endorsement confirms the historic dimension of the election, with Canada in the crosshairs of the U.S. president, his tariff war, and his imperialist threats of annexation. Mark Carney, the Liberal leader who won the election, doubled down on his warnings to Washington in his victory speech, addressing Donald Trump by stating that Canada has “many more options” and potential partners and allies and needs not cower in the face of his threats. “Trump is trying to break us, but that will never, ever happen,” was both his battle cry and victory cry.

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]]>Carlos Osorio<![CDATA[Canada’s PM Mark Carney wins election with a mission to challenge Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-29/canadas-pm-mark-carney-wins-election-with-a-mission-to-challenge-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-29/canadas-pm-mark-carney-wins-election-with-a-mission-to-challenge-trump.htmlTue, 29 Apr 2025 08:39:46 +0000Millions of Canadians went to the polls on Monday to vote in a momentous election, perhaps the most decisive one in recent history. For the majority of the 28.5 million registered voters, it was not so much about choosing candidates and political acronyms as it was about reaffirming themselves as a nation against Donald Trump’s repeated threats. More than a ballot, it was an existential challenge that galvanized Canadians and sent a clear message: the importance of casting a vote for the candidate most capable of stopping the U.S. president in his tracks. In a reversal of what polls had been showing just a few months ago, when the Conservatives were leading in voting intention, Canadians awarded victory to the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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]]>FOTO: EFE<![CDATA[Harvard stands up to Trump: ‘A tremendous battle will have to be fought to defend academic freedom’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-21/harvard-stands-up-to-trump-a-tremendous-battle-will-have-to-be-fought-to-defend-academic-freedom.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-21/harvard-stands-up-to-trump-a-tremendous-battle-will-have-to-be-fought-to-defend-academic-freedom.htmlMon, 21 Apr 2025 10:58:06 +0000As a good businessman rather than a politician, Donald Trump has managed to put a price on an intangible asset: academic freedom. So far, it has cost Harvard more than $2.2 billion to oppose the Republican administration’s attempt to discipline it by silencing uncomfortable opinions, such as criticism of Israel or diversity policies that support minority groups.

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]]>Associated Press/LaPresse<![CDATA[The American dream is vanishing on the streets of New York ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-19/the-american-dream-is-vanishing-on-the-streets-of-new-york.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-19/the-american-dream-is-vanishing-on-the-streets-of-new-york.htmlSat, 19 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000Since the Trump administration launched its crackdown on illegal immigration in late-January, many garages in the Big Apple have been overwhelmed with idle food trucks.

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]]>CHARLY TRIBALLEAU (AFP / GETTY IMAGES)<![CDATA[The Spanish victims of the New York helicopter crash: Two Siemens executives and their young children]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-11/the-spanish-victims-of-the-new-york-helicopter-crash-two-siemens-executives-and-their-young-children.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-11/the-spanish-victims-of-the-new-york-helicopter-crash-two-siemens-executives-and-their-young-children.htmlFri, 11 Apr 2025 07:50:33 +0000Although the Spanish Embassy in Washington had not confirmed their identities late Thursday night, stating only that they were Spanish citizens, the victims of the deadly crash of a sightseeing helicopter that fell into the Hudson River in New York are Agustín Escobar, who was CEO of the technology company Siemens in Spain for two years and was currently serving as the company’s head of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility; his wife Mercè Camprubí Montal, a director at the same company and the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of presidents of the soccer club FC Barcelona; and their three children, ages four, five, and eleven. Their identities were revealed by local media, including The New York Times, citing a senior New York law enforcement official.

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]]>Samuel Sánchez<![CDATA[US university campuses hit by antisemitism inquisition ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-07/us-university-campuses-hit-by-antisemitism-inquisition.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-07/us-university-campuses-hit-by-antisemitism-inquisition.htmlMon, 07 Apr 2025 16:38:41 +0000One aspect of the witch hunt on U.S. campuses is called doxxing, which refers to the act of revealing an individual’s personal information in order to intimidate, threaten or harass them. In other words, it is an inquisition that targets those who have raised their voices against Israel’s merciless bombardment of Gaza since October 2023. Although the Trump administration is now leading this offensive, it was going on months before the Republican won the U.S. elections with all those who criticized Israel being accused of antisemitism. Behind each of the names of the dozen or so foreign students arrested since March 8, 2025, there is an organization, a vigilante or a facial recognition software program working to unmask masked demonstrators. The doxxing machine has served its targets to the White House on a platter.

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]]>Eduardo Muñoz<![CDATA[Trump’s other deportations: Automatic processes and secret expulsions of grandmothers]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-24/trumps-other-deportations-automatic-processes-and-secret-expulsions-of-grandmothers.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-24/trumps-other-deportations-automatic-processes-and-secret-expulsions-of-grandmothers.htmlMon, 24 Mar 2025 10:42:57 +0000The image of a line of prisoners with shaved heads and white jumpsuits, herded like cattle into a hangar-like Salvadoran prison, has become a symbol of the Donald Trump administration’s hard-line immigration agenda. The detainees — Venezuelans allegedly tied to the Tren de Aragua criminal gang — embody the president’s determination to purge the U.S. of foreigners who are being essentially convicted without evidence or due process.

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]]>PRESIDENCIA DE EL SALVADOR<![CDATA[Arrest of pro-Palestinian students sparks alarms over free speech: ‘It reeks of McCarthyism’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-17/arrest-of-pro-palestinian-students-sparks-alarms-over-free-speech-it-reeks-of-mccarthyism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-17/arrest-of-pro-palestinian-students-sparks-alarms-over-free-speech-it-reeks-of-mccarthyism.htmlMon, 17 Mar 2025 11:08:35 +0000Three cases concerning the limits of freedom of expression in the United States illustrate the inconsistent standards applied to the realm of ideas since Donald Trump’s return to power.

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]]>GRAEME SLOAN<![CDATA[Lukewarm response to Trump’s speech showcases differences among Democrats]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-05/lukewarm-response-to-trumps-speech-showcases-differences-among-democrats.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-05/lukewarm-response-to-trumps-speech-showcases-differences-among-democrats.htmlWed, 05 Mar 2025 10:17:37 +0000One might have expected the Democrats’ response to Donald Trump’s speech in Congress to be a display of considerable outrage — perhaps a volley of boos, or a mass walkout (a small group did in fact walk out, with the word “resist” written on the back of their black T-shirts) — but they could not even agree on that. Circumspect, more silent than might be expected in the face of a defiant Trump, the Democrats showed on Tuesday that the Republican’s second term has almost no opposition to speak of. Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic senator from Michigan, responded as the presumed emerging figure of a party in disarray since the defeat of its presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, in November. But the lack of definition among Democrats has also permeated their capacity to react inside the House: on Tuesday there was some light booing, a few slogans and banners, serious faces and lost steps by the group of deserters. One Democrat, Representative Al Green of Texas, was expelled in the first few minutes for confronting Trump with a cane in his hand. As the session progressed, made interminable by the repeated applause of the Republicans, a trickle of Democrats, including Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar, left the chamber in a sign of disagreement.

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]]>WIN MCNAMEE / POOL<![CDATA[Inaction over egg shortage caused by bird flu opens up unexpected front for Donald Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-02-18/inaction-over-egg-shortage-caused-by-bird-flu-opens-up-unexpected-front-for-donald-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/health/2025-02-18/inaction-over-egg-shortage-caused-by-bird-flu-opens-up-unexpected-front-for-donald-trump.htmlTue, 18 Feb 2025 11:08:05 +0000President Donald Trump has inherited a strong economy with booming labor and stock markets. But inflation, which appears to be picking up, the expected impact on consumer prices of tariffs on Mexico and Canada — where much of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the United States come from — and a persistent outbreak of bird flu that has driven up the price of eggs, are combining against a leader who, amid the volley of executive orders of his accelerated presidential debut, has barely paid attention to the economy. The White House’s room for maneuver seems to be shrinking as prices continue to rise, and the fact that a dozen eggs cost $14 this week in some New York supermarkets is not helping to inspire optimism among the population.

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]]>Brendan McDermid<![CDATA[Pressure on anti-corruption prosecutors to favor NY mayor sparks revolt at Justice Department]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-17/pressure-on-anti-corruption-prosecutors-to-favor-ny-mayor-sparks-revolt-at-justice-department.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-17/pressure-on-anti-corruption-prosecutors-to-favor-ny-mayor-sparks-revolt-at-justice-department.htmlMon, 17 Feb 2025 10:10:18 +0000Befriending Donald Trump pays off big time. Just ask Elon Musk who, thanks to the U.S. president, has become the most powerful man in the Republican administration; or Vladimir Putin, who stands to benefit from the White House plan to end the war in Ukraine; or, on a smaller but very significant scale, New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has become so ingratiating with Trump in recent months that on Tuesday the Justice Department requested the dismissal of five corruption charges against him.

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]]>Curtis Means<![CDATA[Justice Department tells prosecutors to drop corruption case against New York mayor]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-11/justice-department-tells-prosecutors-to-drop-corruption-case-against-new-york-mayor.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-11/justice-department-tells-prosecutors-to-drop-corruption-case-against-new-york-mayor.htmlTue, 11 Feb 2025 09:37:03 +0000The U.S. Justice Department on Monday called for the dismissal of the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat. The mayor — who was indicted on five counts in September for allegedly accepting money from Turkey to accelerate local licenses for a new Turkish Consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns — has in recent months cultivated a close relationship with President Donald Trump, whose trial in the hush money case, in which the Republican was found guilty of the 34 crimes he was charged with, he described as “political persecution.” The same words that the president repeatedly used to define the legal cases against him, now evaporated thanks to his victory at the polls.

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]]>Shannon Stapleton<![CDATA[Migrants in Chicago after Trump raids: ‘We will continue working, but we are afraid’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-03/migrants-in-chicago-after-trump-raids-we-will-continue-working-but-we-are-afraid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-03/migrants-in-chicago-after-trump-raids-we-will-continue-working-but-we-are-afraid.htmlMon, 03 Feb 2025 10:16:00 +0000Erika’s trip to Houston to see her children hangs in the balance due to her immigration status: undocumented. The same fate has befallen the parents of Yasmin, whose quinceañera party has been canceled, along with the princess dress and ballroom they had booked months in advance. In La Villita, a neighborhood in South Lawndale, the tire repair shop of Iban — also undocumented — has displayed a closed sign since last week, when the Trump administration launched a large-scale deportation operation targeting irregular immigrants in Chicago. This offensive has thrown the daily lives of tens of thousands into turmoil, creating a limbo of fear and uncertainty.

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]]>ICE<![CDATA[Fear of deportation spreads among Chicago immigrants: ‘We are locked inside our homes’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-29/fear-of-deportation-spreads-among-chicago-immigrants-we-are-locked-inside-our-homes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-29/fear-of-deportation-spreads-among-chicago-immigrants-we-are-locked-inside-our-homes.htmlWed, 29 Jan 2025 08:50:23 +0000The mood of residents in migrant neighborhoods on the outskirts of Chicago as a result of the Trump administration’s offensive against illegal immigration ranges from fear to dismay to paralyzing panic. In Hermosa, where the population is predominantly Hispanic, there is not a soul on the streets, not a single pedestrian — those new pariahs of civilization who lack a car in a country built for the automobile. Equally empty are the bus stop shelters, the few existing public parks, with their grass worn and scorched by the snow, and the local businesses: the taquerias and pupuserias where you can see right through the deserted storefront windows.

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]]>Vincent Alban<![CDATA[Chicago Democratic officials refuse to cooperate in Trump-ordered mass immigration raids]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-28/chicago-democratic-officials-refuse-to-cooperate-in-trump-ordered-mass-immigration-raids.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-28/chicago-democratic-officials-refuse-to-cooperate-in-trump-ordered-mass-immigration-raids.htmlTue, 28 Jan 2025 10:53:06 +0000Donald Trump is trying to make Chicago, with its Democratic governor and mayor, the spearhead of his promise to deport undocumented migrants en masse. The operation, which began on Sunday, is expected to be expanded in the coming days, with the presence of several Republican administration officials on the ground to guarantee results. The president’s move, however, has been met with the rejection of local officials, who are refusing to cooperate. It has also generated fear among the residents of predominantly immigrant neighborhoods, such as Brighton Park, where asking for directions from the window of an unfamiliar vehicle causes the few pedestrians walking through the dimly lit streets to speed up.

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]]>Christopher Dilts<![CDATA[White House also plans to deport foreigners granted temporary residence by Biden]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-24/white-house-also-plans-to-deport-foreigners-granted-temporary-residence-by-biden.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-24/white-house-also-plans-to-deport-foreigners-granted-temporary-residence-by-biden.htmlFri, 24 Jan 2025 20:28:35 +0000A raid by immigration police on Thursday at a wholesale seafood business in Newark, New Jersey, has raised numerous questions about the scope and objectives of the deportation orders signed by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term. The operation by ICE agents at the Newark business resulted in an unspecified number of arrests, including undocumented immigrants as well as U.S. citizens, among them an Army veteran. Compounding the confusion surrounding the raid is the White House’s plan to expand its deportation efforts to include 1.4 million temporary residents — in other words, legal residents, such as citizens who fled Cuba or Venezuela.

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]]>Eduardo Munoz<![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats put aside differences to remember Jimmy Carter’s legacy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-30/republicans-and-democrats-put-aside-differences-to-remember-jimmy-carters-legacy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-30/republicans-and-democrats-put-aside-differences-to-remember-jimmy-carters-legacy.htmlMon, 30 Dec 2024 10:32:35 +0000The social network X (formerly Twitter) became a platform for tributes to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on Sunday, with both Democrats and Republicans — especially those from his home state of Georgia — offering praise for his legacy. Less than a month before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the official mourning period, which will last 30 days, will see the American flag flown at half-mast on January 20, when the Republican officially assumes the presidency, in accordance with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ guidelines following the death of a former president. Public funerals will be held in Atlanta and Washington.

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]]>Pete Souza<![CDATA[Gastronomy breathes fresh life into New York ]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-12-27/gastronomy-breathes-fresh-life-into-new-york.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-12-27/gastronomy-breathes-fresh-life-into-new-york.htmlFri, 27 Dec 2024 18:52:10 +0000First the pandemic and then soaring rents left thousands of storefronts boarded up in New York. But, like the city’s subway, which has yet to regain the cruising speed it enjoyed before the lockdown, New York’s commercial buzz is gradually coming back, thanks to the restaurants that have opened in recent months. This is not only an economic issue, but also a sign of confidence and even of livability, as entire blocks regain signs of life after being engulfed by a black hole and a sense of lawlessness.

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]]>David Grossman (Alamy / CORDON PRESS) <![CDATA[New York mayor clings to Trump as a lifeline amid legal troubles and immigration crisis]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-26/new-york-mayor-clings-to-trump-as-a-lifeline-amid-legal-troubles-and-immigration-crisis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-26/new-york-mayor-clings-to-trump-as-a-lifeline-amid-legal-troubles-and-immigration-crisis.htmlThu, 26 Dec 2024 10:31:50 +0000Justice has made Republican Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, and Democrat Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, strange bedfellows. The legal troubles of the incoming president and the corruption indictment hanging over the mayor have brought the two theoretical rivals closer together, as has an issue that worries both of them: immigration policy. New York has received more than 225,000 migrants since the spring of 2022, the reception of whom has cost the municipal coffers over $6 billion. The convergence of interests between Trump’s immigration policy and Adams’ request for help to resolve the pressure the newcomers have placed on the city has worked the miracle of understanding, as much as Trump’s promised pardon for the criminal case against Adams for charges related to contributions from foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official to fund his mayoral campaign in 2021.

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]]>Adam Gray<![CDATA[Republicans race against the clock to avoid government shutdown]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-20/republicans-race-against-the-clock-to-avoid-government-shutdown.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-20/republicans-race-against-the-clock-to-avoid-government-shutdown.htmlFri, 20 Dec 2024 20:19:15 +0000House Republicans are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, a situation that would deprive the administration of the funds necessary to meet its financial obligations, such as paying public salaries. This last-minute attempt comes just hours before the deadline, following the derailment of the second funding proposal by Republicans on Thursday night. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, announced early in the day that his caucus had finalized a Plan C, with an imminent vote expected on the package in its entirety or in parts. However, sources close to party leadership warned that, as the afternoon progressed, no consensus had emerged on the way forward. The sense of chaos and legislative gridlock deepened as President-elect Donald Trump insisted on his demands.

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]]>Kevin Lamarque<![CDATA[Government shutdown looms after House rejects alternative funding plan]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-20/government-shutdown-looms-after-house-rejects-alternative-funding-plan.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-20/government-shutdown-looms-after-house-rejects-alternative-funding-plan.htmlFri, 20 Dec 2024 09:44:54 +0000The House of Representatives on Thursday evening rejected an alternative agreement, backed by Donald Trump, to avoid a government shutdown at midnight on Friday. Unlike the original package, which was the result of bipartisan negotiations but was torpedoed by conservatives led by billionaire tycoon Elon Musk, this plan B was only endorsed by Republicans — a fact that did not guarantee its success, as demonstrated by the result of the vote (235 to 174), which reflected the staunch opposition of 38 hardline Republicans and 197 Democrats. The text required the support of two-thirds of the House to be approved. The rejection brought the effort to avert a shutdown back to square one just one day before government funding lapses.

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]]>Anna Rose Layden<![CDATA[Elon Musk pressures Republican majority to kill bill that would avert government shutdown]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-19/elon-musk-pressures-republican-majority-to-kill-bill-that-would-avert-government-shutdown.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-19/elon-musk-pressures-republican-majority-to-kill-bill-that-would-avert-government-shutdown.htmlThu, 19 Dec 2024 09:30:14 +0000The spending bill that Republicans and Democrats had agreed on this week to avoid a government shutdown on Friday is in danger of dying after president-elect Donald Trump condemned it on Wednesday night. So has his future vice president, J. D. Vance, and most of all Elon Musk, who has been instrumental in channeling Republican opposition to the initiative. House Speaker Mike Johnson has defended the 1,500-page package, but failed to convince a number of reluctant fellow Republicans. Crucial items such as Social Security payments and the salaries of members of the Armed Forces depend on government funding.

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]]>Brian Snyder<![CDATA[East Coast alarmed by wave of mysterious drone sightings]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-18/east-coast-alarmed-by-wave-of-mysterious-drone-sightings.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-18/east-coast-alarmed-by-wave-of-mysterious-drone-sightings.htmlWed, 18 Dec 2024 11:16:19 +0000Since mid-November, a wave of mysterious drone sightings — primarily in New Jersey but now extending to New York and other parts of the eastern U.S. — has sparked conspiracy theories, fueled online speculation, and stirred widespread anxiety, if not paranoia. Lawmakers from both parties are pressuring the federal government to provide credible explanations for the flurry of drone activity, some of which has reportedly skirted military installations and Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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]]>Tommy Gilligan<![CDATA[Judge in hush money case refuses to throw out Trump’s conviction despite Supreme Court immunity decision]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-17/judge-in-hush-money-case-refuses-to-throw-out-trumps-conviction-despite-supreme-court-immunity-decision.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-17/judge-in-hush-money-case-refuses-to-throw-out-trumps-conviction-despite-supreme-court-immunity-decision.htmlTue, 17 Dec 2024 09:48:13 +0000A Manhattan district judge on Monday rejected president-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to nullify his conviction in the New York hush money case on the strength of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling granting broad immunity to presidents for official actions. The future of the case — whose sentence was meant to have been made public shortly after Election Day — remains unclear. Prosecutors have recommended that the case be put on hold — not thrown out — precisely because of the Supreme Court’s ruling. Trump’s lawyers have argued that having the case hanging over his presidency would be a burden on his ability to govern.

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]]>JABIN BOTSFORD / POOL<![CDATA[New York reaches out to Trump: Mayor seeks to change laws to make deportation easier]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-13/new-york-reaches-out-to-trump-mayor-seeks-to-change-laws-to-make-deportation-easier.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-13/new-york-reaches-out-to-trump-mayor-seeks-to-change-laws-to-make-deportation-easier.htmlFri, 13 Dec 2024 08:38:56 +0000New York Mayor Eric Adams is considering changing laws that make the city a safe haven for migrants by executive order. Since the re-election of Republican Donald Trump, Adams — a moderate centrist within the Democratic Party — has visibly shifted to the right. This change is attributed to his frustration with managing the ongoing migration crisis, which began in the spring of 2022. During that time, buses of migrants were sent to New York City and other Democratic strongholds — such as Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and Boston — by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, in a bid to pressure the Democratic administration in Washington.

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]]>Andres Kudacki<![CDATA[Luigi Mangione: the brilliant young computer scientist arrested for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-10/luigi-mangione-the-brilliant-young-computer-scientist-arrested-for-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-10/luigi-mangione-the-brilliant-young-computer-scientist-arrested-for-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo.htmlTue, 10 Dec 2024 18:34:02 +0000Among the legion of admirers — and haters — of Luigi Mangione, accused of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there are many who wonder how someone with his IQ, who was the valedictorian of his Baltimore prep school, could have made the mistake of fleeing with all the material he used to commit the crime. Another, worse mistake was his flirtation with the employee of the New York hostel where he spent the night for several days before killing Thompson: amidst seductive laughter, Mangione lowered the mask that covered his face, offering a perfect target for the video surveillance cameras.

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]]>FOX News Channel<![CDATA[More than 75 Nobel laureates urge US Senate not to confirm Robert Kennedy as Secretary of Health]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-12-10/more-than-75-nobel-laureates-urge-us-senate-not-to-confirm-robert-kennedy-as-secretary-of-health.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-12-10/more-than-75-nobel-laureates-urge-us-senate-not-to-confirm-robert-kennedy-as-secretary-of-health.htmlTue, 10 Dec 2024 10:33:22 +0000A group of over 75 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and a known anti-vaxxer. The letter, seen by The New York Times, is the first on record in which a coalition of laureates has joined ranks against a Cabinet pick, according to Richard Roberts, the 1993 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine who helped draft the letter. The prize-winning club of researchers and academics rarely takes public policy stances, Roberts said, let alone together.

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]]>Carlos Barria<![CDATA[UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder sparks consumer outrage over health insurance abuses]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-09/unitedhealthcare-ceos-murder-sparks-consumer-outrage-over-health-insurance-abuses.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-09/unitedhealthcare-ceos-murder-sparks-consumer-outrage-over-health-insurance-abuses.htmlMon, 09 Dec 2024 11:22:37 +0000Nothing justifies murder, but the flood of messages on social media, posted by the victoms of the ruthlessness — or profitability depending on perspective — of insurance companies, suggests that the killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has exposed a Pandora’s box of public discontent.

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]]>Mike Segar<![CDATA[Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO, shot dead in New York]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-04/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-dead-in-new-york.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-04/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-dead-in-new-york.htmlWed, 04 Dec 2024 16:06:24 +0000Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the insurance division of healthcare giant UnitedHealthcare Group — one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world — was shot in the middle of Manhattan early Wednesday morning. The executive — who police say was shot in the chest — was taken to a hospital in the city, where he was pronounced dead. The suspect fled the scene, and police say no arrests have been made.

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]]>Shannon Stapleton<![CDATA[US companies stock up in anticipation of Trump’s promised tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-12-02/us-companies-stock-up-in-anticipation-of-trumps-promised-tariffs-on-china-mexico-and-canada.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-12-02/us-companies-stock-up-in-anticipation-of-trumps-promised-tariffs-on-china-mexico-and-canada.htmlMon, 02 Dec 2024 09:18:27 +0000In anticipation that Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China will be carried out within 24 hours of taking office, U.S. importers have been rushing to stock up. Ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together receive a third of all containers arriving in the U.S., registered record levels of activity in October, even before the election, when the Republican candidate was loudly saying that tariff is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” and threatening a 60% levy on Chinese-made products. Freight volume from this country increased by almost 13% in October compared with the same month last year; in September, by comparison, year-on-year growth was 2.4%.

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]]>JOHN G. MABANGLO<![CDATA[Thousands of migrants celebrate Thanksgiving in fear of being deported]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-28/thousands-of-migrants-celebrate-thanksgiving-in-fear-of-being-deported.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-28/thousands-of-migrants-celebrate-thanksgiving-in-fear-of-being-deported.htmlThu, 28 Nov 2024 10:37:32 +0000The fear of mass deportations — and potential family separations — looms over tens of thousands of migrants like those who attended a Thanksgiving food distribution drive last week organized by the NGO New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE). For many of them, Thursday will be their first Thanksgiving, the most important date on the American holiday calendar. But it could also be their last if Donald Trump’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants (an estimated 11.3 million across the U.S., with 412,000 in New York) ultimately come to pass despite the numerous technical complexities involved, chiefly the management of case files.

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]]>Javier Alvarez<![CDATA[New York speeds up plan to charge $9 toll for driving into central Manhattan over Trump fears]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-21/new-york-speeds-up-plan-to-charge-9-toll-for-driving-into-central-manhattan-over-trump-fears.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-21/new-york-speeds-up-plan-to-charge-9-toll-for-driving-into-central-manhattan-over-trump-fears.htmlThu, 21 Nov 2024 14:02:56 +0000Car restrictions in city centers, so common in Europe, seem anathema in the United States, which is much more dependent on private vehicles. New York, arguably the most European of America’s cities, has been trying for more than a year to impose a congestion pricing plan to access Manhattan‘s Central Business District — similar to those already in place in London, Milan or Stockholm. Although the project has taken several tumbles since its initial conception, fear of the announced cut in public spending by the incoming Trump administration has reactivated the toll plan. If the outgoing Biden administration gives final approval, drivers will have to pay $9 to access the area starting January 5. In London, drivers are already paying a £15 ($18) daily fee for driving in the Congestion Charge zone.

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]]>Carlo Allegri<![CDATA[The new US ambassador to the UN: The battering ram of Trump’s ‘Israel first’ policy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-15/the-new-us-ambassador-to-the-un-the-battering-ram-of-trumps-israel-first-policy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-15/the-new-us-ambassador-to-the-un-the-battering-ram-of-trumps-israel-first-policy.htmlFri, 15 Nov 2024 09:54:59 +0000On the mental map of Elise Stefanik, the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, two countries are marked in red, one friendly and one hostile: Israel and Iran. The rest, except for China or Ukraine, do not seem to figure in the itinerary of the Republican congresswoman from New York, a neocon fervently reconverted to the MAGA movement and rewarded for it with this ambassadorship, of ministerial rank.

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]]>Andrew Kelly<![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and now US health secretary]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-15/robert-f-kennedy-anti-vaxxer-conspiracy-theorist-and-now-us-health-secretary.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-15/robert-f-kennedy-anti-vaxxer-conspiracy-theorist-and-now-us-health-secretary.htmlFri, 15 Nov 2024 11:37:19 +0000Donald Trump’s battery of controversial appointments to his incoming administration continues apace. After naming Pete Hegseth, a Fox network host, to head the Pentagon, Tulsi Gabbard, an admirer of Vladimir Putin, to direct the intelligence services, and Matt Gaetz — who during his tenure as a congressman was the subject of a federal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations and accusations of drug use and misappropriation of funds — as attorney general, the president-elect has decided to nominate the anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy’s appointment has come as no surprise, as for weeks, Trump had made it clear that he would have a role in his administration. “He’s going to help make America healthy again,” the president-elect said at the victory celebration on election night itself. “He’s a great guy and he really means it. He wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him go to it.”

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[J. D. Vance, Trump’s bet to secure the future of the MAGA movement]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-07/j-d-vance-trumps-bet-to-secure-the-future-of-the-maga-movement.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-07/j-d-vance-trumps-bet-to-secure-the-future-of-the-maga-movement.htmlThu, 07 Nov 2024 13:53:00 +0000Someone capable of saying that teenagers choose to transition to circumvent the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) quotas of Ivy League universities will be the next vice president of the United States. J. D. Vance, 40, has also stated that many women who have abortions celebrate with parties and even cakes, and that Donald Trump and he would have the support at the polls of all “normal gay guys.” Of course, he also said — before being chosen as the Republican heir apparent — that Trump was “America’s Hitler.” But that, he said, despite the insistence of the newspaper archives and the good memory of the social networks, did not pose any obstacle for him to be anointed as number two and, who knows, perhaps successor if the number one, president-elect Trump, does not last the entire term given his age.

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]]>ERIK S. LESSER<![CDATA[Candidate Donald Trump: The resilience of a leader unaffected by discredit or condemnation]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-04/candidate-donald-trump-the-resilience-of-a-leader-unaffected-by-discredit-or-condemnation.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-04/candidate-donald-trump-the-resilience-of-a-leader-unaffected-by-discredit-or-condemnation.htmlMon, 04 Nov 2024 18:01:17 +0000Even if he were to succeed and be re-elected, Donald Trump would return to the White House with a thorn in his side. New York, the city he loves, the seat of his empire, the dock where he has been tried and convicted, still sees him as a body, more than strange, extemporaneous. The suspicion was evident after the Republican’s rally last Sunday at Madison Square Garden, with which he intended to put the finishing touch to the campaign. The flow of racist insults from his opening acts —about 30; with Trump everything is large-scale — stole the show and the magnate, who boasts of having contributed to the brilliance of the city that disdains him, was forced to watch how the roar of the controversy silenced his message.

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]]>Brian Snyder<![CDATA[Arab-American voters: A diverse, complex community disappointed with Biden and Harris]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-02/arab-american-voters-a-diverse-complex-community-disappointed-with-biden-and-harris.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-02/arab-american-voters-a-diverse-complex-community-disappointed-with-biden-and-harris.htmlSat, 02 Nov 2024 04:19:00 +0000With a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders, attorney Sahar Faraj’s eyes flash with rage. Born and raised in Michigan, she identifies only as Palestinian and lashes out viscerally when asked about the November 5 elections. The interview takes place in Dearborn, the heart of the Arab community in the United States, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Gaza war. “The voice of the Arab community is a cry of pain, of people who only want to help their families there. So yes, it is true that elections are happening, but more importantly, a genocide is happening. We cannot talk about anything other than our relatives killed thanks to the military aid [to Israel] that we pay for with our taxes, and that is tremendously painful.”

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]]>RUBINI NAIDU<![CDATA[Trump’s hard line on illegal immigration pushes Kamala Harris’ party to the right]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-01/trumps-hard-line-on-illegal-immigration-pushes-kamala-harris-party-to-the-right.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-01/trumps-hard-line-on-illegal-immigration-pushes-kamala-harris-party-to-the-right.htmlFri, 01 Nov 2024 11:19:43 +0000Migration has been a key element in Donald Trump’s discourse since 2016, when he proposed building a wall on the border with Mexico. Even so, now more than ever, the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in major U.S. cities since spring 2022 is conditioning next Tuesday’s elections on both sides of the political spectrum. The Republican discourse, which associates migrants with insecurity and describes them as drainers of scarce resources, such as housing or food aid, has greatly influenced the Democrats: Kamala Harris’s position is now noticeably tougher than during the 2020 campaign. The importance that voters ascribe to this issue shows, however, a partisan gap: for 90% of registered Republicans, immigration is “very important,” compared to 68% of independents and 50% of Democrats, according to a recent Ipsos/Langer poll for ABC News.

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]]>Luiz C. Ribeiro <![CDATA[Blue Helmets in southern Lebanon, caught between the gunfire and a vague mandate]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-25/blue-helmets-in-southern-lebanon-caught-between-the-gunfire-and-a-vague-mandate.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-25/blue-helmets-in-southern-lebanon-caught-between-the-gunfire-and-a-vague-mandate.htmlFri, 25 Oct 2024 20:23:50 +0000To review United Nations peacekeeping missions with a list of successes and failures in hand would be equivalent to considering all the conflicts in the world over 75 years — to 2023 — as one. Because the conditions of these deployments have been as varied as the nature of the wars in which they have intervened or mediated: from the discreet effectiveness, despite a few surprises, of the missions in Kosovo or East Timor, to the inaction of the Dutch Blue Helmets while the Serbian forces perpetrated their genocide in Srebrenica; the paralysis of MINURSO in Western Sahara or the anachronism of the U.N. headquarters on the Green Line in Nicosia (Cyprus). Any example, however, pales in comparison to two current deployments, each more complex than the other: the controversial multinational security mission in Haiti, where it does not have official peacekeeping status, and, above all, the operation in southern Lebanon, the target in recent weeks of an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah.

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]]>Hussein Malla<![CDATA[Kamala Harris stokes battle of ideas, calling Trump a ‘threat’ to US democracy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-25/kamala-harris-stokes-battle-of-ideas-calling-trump-a-threat-to-us-democracy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-25/kamala-harris-stokes-battle-of-ideas-calling-trump-a-threat-to-us-democracy.htmlFri, 25 Oct 2024 07:51:04 +0000Although more than half of Americans identify the economy as their top priority in the upcoming November election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has shifted the campaign’s final phase into an ideological offensive, targeting what she describes as a grave threat to democracy posed by Republican candidate Donald Trump. The increasingly intense ideological clash reached a peak on Wednesday evening, when, during a town hall with undecided voters in Pennsylvania, the current vice president openly labeled the former president a fascist.

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]]>Allison Joyce<![CDATA[Voting with your pocketbook: Inflation also sneaks into the ballot box]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-24/voting-with-your-pocketbook-inflation-also-sneaks-into-the-ballot-box.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-24/voting-with-your-pocketbook-inflation-also-sneaks-into-the-ballot-box.htmlThu, 24 Oct 2024 10:00:40 +0000The buoyant optimism in the air at the Democratic Victory Campaign Center in northern Manhattan, one of the many party offices scattered around the country with that name, disappears when the word inflation is mentioned. A majority of Americans feel that they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, and the latest Economic Confidence Index established monthly by Gallup remains negative at -26. This indicator summarizes both the current situation compared to the 2020 elections, and the future prospects, and 52% of those surveyed say they are very or quite pessimistic about it. Their discomfort, and the theoretical flow of votes for Donald Trump, has a name: inflation. The rise in prices that followed the Covid pandemic, with the Consumer Price Index reaching 9.1% in June 2022 — today close to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target — has left a stubborn mark on supermarket shelves and tenants’ rent payments.

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]]>Seth Wenig<![CDATA[Workers, Arab communities and young people: The voters who will break the virtual tie between Trump and Harris in Michigan ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-19/workers-arab-communities-and-young-people-the-voters-who-will-break-the-virtual-tie-between-trump-and-harris-in-michigan.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-19/workers-arab-communities-and-young-people-the-voters-who-will-break-the-virtual-tie-between-trump-and-harris-in-michigan.htmlSat, 19 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000For many, Michigan has taken the shape of a great big question mark: what will be the outcome of the November elections in the swing state? Traditionally a Democratic stronghold, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the state in 2016, which paved his way for victory in the election.

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]]>Rubini Naidu<![CDATA[The long shadow of Erdogan’s Turkey threatens to sink New York mayor’s political career]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-10-18/the-long-shadow-of-erdogans-turkey-threatens-to-sink-new-york-mayors-political-career.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-10-18/the-long-shadow-of-erdogans-turkey-threatens-to-sink-new-york-mayors-political-career.htmlFri, 18 Oct 2024 09:56:55 +0000Turkey’s ambition to project an image as an emerging world power, independent and powerful in its region — what has been defined as Neo-Ottoman diplomacy, today attenuated by neighboring conflicts — now threatens to take down the mayor of New York himself, who has been accused of corruption. The geopolitical reasons that have tied together the interests of Ankara and the Big Apple, and those of the Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan with those of the Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, is illustrated by the story of a 36-story skyscraper located right in front of the United Nations headquarters and housing the Turkish consulate in the so-called capital of the world.

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]]>Caitlin Ochs<![CDATA[Vance-Walz VP debate: Civility prevails, with clashes on immigration, abortion and the economy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-02/vance-walz-vp-debate-civility-prevails-with-clashes-on-immigration-abortion-and-the-economy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-02/vance-walz-vp-debate-civility-prevails-with-clashes-on-immigration-abortion-and-the-economy.htmlWed, 02 Oct 2024 10:00:06 +0000Tim Walz and J. D. Vance became the first line of defense for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday, in the only debate between the two and, foreseeably, the last opportunity for the campaigns to present their platforms — or to attack their rival’s proposals — before a national audience. Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, was going into the debate with more political experience than Vance, but the face-to-face changed the tables: the young senator from Ohio sounded somewhat more convincing than the veteran Democratic governor, although it was not possible to clearly establish a winner and a loser. Something like a sense of courtesy reigned between them, which made the debate flow despite the rigid format of the questions and answers.

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]]>Brendan McDermid<![CDATA[Key points of the debate between the VP candidates, Tim Walz and J.D. Vance: Two army veterans face off]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-01/key-points-of-the-debate-between-the-vp-candidates-tim-walz-and-jd-vance-two-army-veterans-face-off.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-10-01/key-points-of-the-debate-between-the-vp-candidates-tim-walz-and-jd-vance-two-army-veterans-face-off.htmlTue, 01 Oct 2024 10:21:11 +0000Two army veterans, a former Marine and a former National Guard officer, are waiting to square off at the only scheduled debate between the vice presidential candidates. The event will represent practically the last chance for the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to reach a national television audience, since a second debate between the two presidential candidates has been ruled out. The face-to-face between the Democrat Tim Walz and the Republican J. D. Vance is set to take place on Tuesday night under one main guiding principle: not making mistakes. Voters do not get to choose the vice president at the polls, so the main issue for the VP candidates will be to avoid saying anything that could harm their running mates at a debate that will be televised live in prime time.

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]]>EFE<![CDATA[Amor Towles, writer: ‘More books have been sold in the US in recent years than ever before, fiction is holding its own’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-28/amor-towles-writer-more-books-have-been-sold-in-the-us-in-recent-years-than-ever-before-fiction-is-holding-its-own.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-28/amor-towles-writer-more-books-have-been-sold-in-the-us-in-recent-years-than-ever-before-fiction-is-holding-its-own.htmlSat, 28 Sep 2024 04:46:16 +0000Amor Towles, 59, is surprised when he’s asked what he would say to critics who, from time to time, announce the death of the novel. It doesn’t seem like the most relevant question for a best-selling writer like him, with millions of books sold around the world and a legion of readers, who fell in love with A Gentleman in Moscow (2016). It was his second novel: it catapulted him to fame and is now experiencing a resurgence, thanks to its recent adaptation into a Paramount+ series.

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]]>Corrie Aune<![CDATA[Netanyahu rejects ceasefire proposal in Lebanon: ‘As long as Hezbollah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-09-27/netanyahu-rejects-ceasefire-proposal-in-lebanon-as-long-as-hezbollah-chooses-the-path-of-war-israel-has-no-choice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-09-27/netanyahu-rejects-ceasefire-proposal-in-lebanon-as-long-as-hezbollah-chooses-the-path-of-war-israel-has-no-choice.htmlFri, 27 Sep 2024 18:56:52 +0000A belligerent Benjamin Netanyahu has torn up the weak and contradictory signals that Israel was willing to accept a U.S. and French ceasefire proposal to stop the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon. “As long as Hezbollah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice,” he stated. The Israeli prime minister’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, interrupted several times by boos and discreet applause to the point that the diplomat presiding the session had to call the room to order twice, was a repetition of his government’s arguments throughout the Gaza war and his defiant tone was the same as that displayed in his message to the U.S. Congress at the end of July.

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]]>Mike Segar<![CDATA[New York Mayor Eric Adams charged with bribery, fraud and soliciting foreign donations ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-09-26/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-charged-with-bribery-fraud-and-soliciting-foreign-donations.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-09-26/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-charged-with-bribery-fraud-and-soliciting-foreign-donations.htmlThu, 26 Sep 2024 19:02:04 +0000New York Mayor Eric Adams was officially indicted on Thursday with five charges related to bribery, wire fraud and soliciting contributions from foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official to fund his mayoral campaign in 2021. That same year, the FBI opened an investigation into these campaign contributions. In exchange for these funds, the Democrat allegedly expedited the permits for the new headquarters of the Turkish consulate in New York, and granted other requests.

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]]>JOHN TAGGART<![CDATA[The two-headed kingdom of Camelot: A stroll through the Kennedy family fiefdom on Cape Cod]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-08-19/the-two-headed-kingdom-of-camelot-a-stroll-through-the-kennedy-family-fiefdom-on-cape-cod.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-08-19/the-two-headed-kingdom-of-camelot-a-stroll-through-the-kennedy-family-fiefdom-on-cape-cod.htmlMon, 19 Aug 2024 17:20:24 +0000Beyond the territory of the epic, the kingdom of Camelot has a real setting: the hook-shaped peninsula of Cape Cod (Massachusetts). And an epicenter: the port of Hyannis, where everything seems devoted to the Kennedys, starting with the museum of the same name and the Kennedy Legacy Trail, which threads through the town of 12,800 inhabitants, marking those places linked to the history of the family, which is also the history of the United States: monuments, the Catholic church they attended, statues, and piers.

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]]>Alamy/Cordon Press<![CDATA[FBI investigating alleged Iranian hacking of Trump, Biden and Harris campaigns]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-08-13/fbi-investigating-alleged-iranian-hacking-of-trump-biden-and-harris-campaigns.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-08-13/fbi-investigating-alleged-iranian-hacking-of-trump-biden-and-harris-campaigns.htmlTue, 13 Aug 2024 10:24:41 +0000Despite Iran’s denial of interference in the U.S. presidential race, the FBI said Monday it is investigating allegations of espionage by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, which on Saturday accused Tehran of hacking its communications. Although it did not provide any evidence, Trump’s team pointed specifically to information on the selection process that installed J.D. Vance as a vice-presidential candidate, which was published by the weekly Politico. The FBI, under scrutiny for security failures at the rally where Trump was the target of an assassination attempt, is also investigating an alleged hack targeting advisers to the campaign of President Joe Biden — who dropped out of the race on July 21 — as well as vice president and current Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, The Washington Post reported.

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]]>Yuri Gripas<![CDATA[Russia frees reporter Evan Gershkovich and others in biggest prisoner swap with the West in decades]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-08-01/russia-frees-reporter-evan-gershkovich-and-others-in-biggest-prisoner-swap-with-the-west-in-decades.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-08-01/russia-frees-reporter-evan-gershkovich-and-others-in-biggest-prisoner-swap-with-the-west-in-decades.htmlThu, 01 Aug 2024 16:54:17 +0000Russia on Thursday released the American journalist Evan Gershkovich, the Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and over 20 other people in the largest prisoner swap with the West since the end of the Cold War. The Kremlin, along with Belarus, has also released former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, the Russian dissident Ilya Yashin and the German national Rico Krieger, who was being held on terrorism charges, the Turkish presidency confirmed. In exchange, the United States, Germany and other European countries handed over to Moscow several citizens accused of espionage or murder. The exchange took place in Ankara, the Turkish capital.

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]]>TUNAHAN TURHAN<![CDATA[Vance’s criticism of Kamala Harris and childless women mobilizes Democratic voters]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-26/vances-criticism-of-kamala-harris-and-childless-women-mobilizes-democratic-voters.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-26/vances-criticism-of-kamala-harris-and-childless-women-mobilizes-democratic-voters.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2024 08:36:21 +0000The ultra-conservative views on moral issues of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, go so far as to request the withdrawal of the right to vote from people who do not have any children and, by extension, to consider Kamala Harris, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, “incapable” of performing such a role because she has not given birth. The misogynistic remark, taken from a 2021 interview but which social media has resurrected and made viral after Joe Biden withdrew from the race, included another trite cliché: that childless women like her try to remedy their frustration by surrounding themselves with cats. The pushback on social networks has been immediate, with funny and indignant campaigns in favor of “childless cat ladies.” From actress Jennifer Aniston to grassroots women’s organizations, Democratic women have come out in force in support of Harris, and the controversy has reached prime-time television.

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]]>LESLIE PLAZA JOHNSON<![CDATA[US economy expands more than expected in second quarter, boosted by spending]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-07-25/us-economy-expands-more-than-expected-in-second-quarter-boosted-by-spending.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-07-25/us-economy-expands-more-than-expected-in-second-quarter-boosted-by-spending.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2024 18:53:36 +0000U.S. economic growth accelerated more than expected in the second quarter of the year, showing that demand is resisting the pull of higher borrowing costs. Gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annualized rate of 2.8%, after rising 1.4% in the previous period, according to the government’s initial estimate. The main driver of growth in the economy, consumer spending, grew 2.3%, also performing above expectations. The GDP figure provides a new indication of the economy’s resilience to continued interest rate increases, and may influence the Federal Reserve’s decision to undertake a rate cut in September, given that no movement in that direction is expected at its meeting next week. This first GDP figure, however, will still be subject to two revisions.

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]]>Sean Rayford<![CDATA[What does Kamala Harris stand for? A progressive economic and social agenda and continuity in foreign policy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-25/what-does-kamala-harris-stand-for-a-progressive-economic-and-social-agenda-and-continuity-in-foreign-policy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-25/what-does-kamala-harris-stand-for-a-progressive-economic-and-social-agenda-and-continuity-in-foreign-policy.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2024 10:33:52 +0000A more progressive economic agenda than that of Joe Biden, an open defense of abortion rights without the moral reservation of the president, an 81-year-old practicing Catholic; continuity in foreign policy and nods to free college education, as well as to minority voters whose right to vote has been harmed by Supreme Court decisions and by the limits imposed by Republican legislators. Kamala Harris’s program — if she is elected as Democratic nominee for president and reaches the White House in November — will build on Biden’s legacy and, depending on the balance of forces in Congress, with more ambitious policies on economic and social issues, the first of which is sexual and reproductive health including abortion.

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]]>Jim Vondruska<![CDATA[Kamala Harris breaks fundraising record just two days after Biden’s withdrawal]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-23/kamala-harris-breaks-fundraising-record-just-two-days-after-bidens-withdrawal.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-23/kamala-harris-breaks-fundraising-record-just-two-days-after-bidens-withdrawal.htmlTue, 23 Jul 2024 17:02:07 +0000Kamala Harris’ path to the Democratic presidential nomination has encouraged donations to her campaign. By late Monday, less than 48 hours after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race, the vice president had already raised over $100 million. According to the progressive consultancy MiddleSeat, it is the best fundraising effort in the history of the Democratic party. Multimillionaire donors aside, her success is largely due to the group of women donors who for decades have accompanied her in her career, advancing with her. Even as Harris continued to insist that Biden would be the party’s nominee, these loyal allies began acting to ensure that her campaign would not start from scratch. This amount is added to the $96 million that Joe Biden’s campaign had already accumulated, and which a handful of Republicans will try to block in order to hinder the campaign efforts of the current vice president, since they consider that giving her automatic access would violate the rules of the game.

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]]>Erin Schaff<![CDATA[Kamala Harris, a last-minute option for the toughest mission]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-21/kamala-harris-the-candidate-who-was-never-bidens-heir-apparent.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-21/kamala-harris-the-candidate-who-was-never-bidens-heir-apparent.htmlSun, 21 Jul 2024 21:38:04 +0000John Adams, the second president of the United States, defined the vice presidency as the “most insignificant office,” and Republicans consider that the Democrat Kamala Harris’ tenure as VP has been precisely that. But the 59-year-old Harris — the first female vice president, the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president to take the oath, in 2021 — now has a historic opportunity to hit back at the Trump universe. Never in the history of the United States has a vice president taken up the fight for the presidency at such a late stage of the campaign.

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[The cost of New York street food is soaring ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-13/the-cost-of-new-york-street-food-is-soaring.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-13/the-cost-of-new-york-street-food-is-soaring.htmlSat, 13 Jul 2024 04:05:00 +0000Regular U.S. consumers of so-called happy meals – hamburgers and other cheap fast food –have seen a 31% hike in their cost since the Covid pandemic. This is a far bigger increase than the cost of products in the basic shopping basket, which has also risen considerably. Given the combination of inflation and red tape, it is not surprising that a diverse range of street food sold in stands and carts at New York’s subway exits and other key locations, has also risen in price. Now, a halal food stand in the center of Manhattan sells a rice and chicken dish for $10 (€9.30) — 67% more expensive than in 2020, when the pandemic took hold.

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]]>Eduardo Munoz Alvarez<![CDATA[Republican Party platform adopts Trump’s tough line on immigration]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-10/republican-party-platform-adopts-trumps-tough-line-on-immigration.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-10/republican-party-platform-adopts-trumps-tough-line-on-immigration.htmlWed, 10 Jul 2024 10:03:46 +0000Now that the only thing left to do is to endorse it next week at the national convention in Milwaukee, the Republican Party has put the finishing touches on its platform, which includes carrying out the largest deportation of migrants in the history of the country should its candidate, Donald Trump, win the election on November 5. Hot topics such as the right to abortion, one of the Democrats’ main assets, and same-sex marriage have been pushed down in the brief program, which is committed to “a return to common sense” through an aggressive legislative agenda aimed at turning around immigration, the economy and other issues in the lives of Americans.

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]]>Adrees Latif<![CDATA[Biden’s potential emergency replacements: Five political candidates and one popular option ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-01/bidens-potential-emergency-replacements-five-political-candidates-and-one-popular-option.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-07-01/bidens-potential-emergency-replacements-five-political-candidates-and-one-popular-option.htmlMon, 01 Jul 2024 09:54:16 +0000Half a dozen renowned Democrats sound like possible replacements for President Joe Biden, if the intention of some within the party to force an honorable withdrawal comes to fruition. Although the party guidelines for now are to ignore the succession debate, the Democratic National Committee could theoretically support another candidate at the Chicago convention in August: the extent of damage control will determine whether the general panic over Biden’s cognitive failures in the debate against Donald Trump leads to a surprise or not. As a common denominator, almost all the names being mentioned as possible replacements for the 81-year-old candidate were already being heard in 2020, which underscores the party’s limited, or at least lazy, capacity for renewal.

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]]><![CDATA[The starting point for Trump’s revenge]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-06-03/the-starting-point-for-trumps-revenge.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-06-03/the-starting-point-for-trumps-revenge.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 15:27:18 +0000The fact that the Encyclopedia Britannica, that traditional repository of knowledge, updated Donald Trump’s biography on Thursday in a matter of minutes to include his status as a convicted felon, indicates that, beyond the fleeting and bombastic media headlines, what happened that day in a Manhattan criminal court made history. In fact it is still the first page of a tale that begins with an abyss of unpredictable consequences for the politics, the laws and even the basic existence of the country.

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]]>Julia Nikhinson<![CDATA[Jury finds Donald Trump guilty in hush-money case]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-05-30/jury-finds-donald-trump-guilty-in-hush-money-case.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-05-30/jury-finds-donald-trump-guilty-in-hush-money-case.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 22:12:16 +0000Former president and current Republican candidate Donald Trump has been convicted of falsifying business records to cover up an extramarital affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels that could have derailed his campaign for the White House in 2016. As required, the 12-member jury unanimously found him guilty of all 34 felony counts. With the jurors’ decision, Trump has become the first former U.S. president to be declared a felon. The verdict comes just over five months before the November 5 presidential election, setting off an earthquake in the U.S. political landscape. “I’m a very innocent man,” Trump said as he left the courthouse.

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]]>Doug Mills<![CDATA[Trump’s defense stokes doubts to force mistrial in the Stormy Daniels case]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-28/trumps-defense-stokes-doubts-to-force-mistrial-in-the-stormy-daniels-case.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-28/trumps-defense-stokes-doubts-to-force-mistrial-in-the-stormy-daniels-case.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 19:26:44 +0000After six weeks of hearings, 22 witnesses (only a couple for the defense) and two convictions for contempt against Donald Trump, the first criminal trial against a former US president comes to an end on Tuesday with the closing arguments of the defense, then the prosecution, which has the burden of proof.

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]]>Steven Hirsch<![CDATA[Trump goes on the hunt for the Latino vote in the Bronx amid cries of ‘build the wall!’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-24/trump-goes-on-the-hunt-for-the-latino-vote-in-the-bronx-amid-cries-of-build-the-wall.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-24/trump-goes-on-the-hunt-for-the-latino-vote-in-the-bronx-amid-cries-of-build-the-wall.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 10:46:29 +0000Crotona Park in the Bronx was dyed red Thursday, the color of the Republican Party and the MAGA movement, united under former President Donald Trump. The candidate for re-election, who is being tried in New York in the first of four criminal proceedings against him, basked in the crowds at a rally held in supposedly hostile territory: the Bronx is one of the most Democratic counties in the United States. Or at least it used to be. It is also the poorest borough in New York, as well as mixed race: 65% of its 1.3 million residents are Hispanic and 31% are African-American. Both groups were the declared target of the rally because Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, aspire to win votes among the two populations, who could prove decisive in November. The influx of Latinos from the Bronx did not disappoint the expectations of the Trump campaign and Spanish was the lingua franca for a few hours in that corner of northern New York.

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]]>Yuki Iwamura<![CDATA[Trump elects not to testify as defense rests in Stormy Daniels hush money trial ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-21/trump-elects-not-to-testify-as-defense-rests-in-stormy-daniels-hush-money-trial.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-05-21/trump-elects-not-to-testify-as-defense-rests-in-stormy-daniels-hush-money-trial.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 19:27:55 +0000Donald Trump’s defense lawyers at his criminal trial in New York concluded their case Tuesday after calling only two witnesses — neither one of them the former president, who has chosen not to testify. After the prosecution rested its case a day earlier, the presentation of final arguments will take place next Tuesday, May 28 (there is no session Monday due to Memorial Day, a federal holiday). Judge Juan Merchan said he expects the jury of 12 New Yorkers to begin deliberating next Wednesday.

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