The sinister glamorization of narcos
Drug trafficking and use is often glorified and trivialized in pop culture, but even feminists who protest this portrayal ignore how their own drug use fuels human trafficking and the arms trade
Wendy Williams diagnosed with same form of dementia as Bruce Willis
The 59-year-old’s diagnoses of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia ‘have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy’s life,’ her caretakers say
For now, the beginning of Guatemala’s democratic spring is on hold
President Arévalo and his team are learning to swim among sharks. His first steps have been between tentative and erratic. The highly-anticipated green spring has been cloaked in gray, due to the entrenchment of corrupt actors in the country’s institutions
‘Conversations Outside The Cathedral’: The fight for abortion rights in Colombia
Two years after the historic ruling that decriminalized abortion up until the 24th week of pregnancy, a new book narrates the quiet battles that were waged to achieve victory
ASML, the computer chip giant that’s key in the tech war between the US and China
The Dutch conglomerate — which manufactures the machines that are essential to producing microprocessors — is flying high on the stock market. However, pressure from the United States to limit sales to the Asian giant is posing a challenge to the firm’s dominance in a key economic sector
The US returns to the moon half a century after the Apollo program
Intuitive Machines’ ‘Odysseus’ device becomes the first from a private company to successfully complete a lunar landing
Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says
The judge said the Texas school district does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination. Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular classes since Aug. 31
An invasion of mosquitoes hits Buenos Aires
Experts blame the proliferation of ‘Aedes albifasciatus,’ the second in less than two months in the Argentine province, to the intense rains
Charles Michel: ‘A defeat for Ukraine would have devastating effects for Europe and the world’
The president of the European Council warns that there is no other option but to continue supporting Kyiv: ‘We cannot allow ourselves to fall into fatigue’
Israel, before the international courts
Two legal processes underway are trying to determine whether a genocide is being committed in Gaza
Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers
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AT&T’s outages, which began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET, peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. Some iPhone users have seen SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones
Mother of Kremlin critic Navalny says she’s resisting pressure to agree to a secret burial
Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue
Putin takes a flight in nuclear-capable bomber in a tough message to the West ahead of election
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s 30-minute flight in a supersonic strategic bomber seemed intended to send a reminder of Russia’s nuclear might amid soaring tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine
Kayaks in the driest place in the United States? A lake resurfaces in Death Valley
The heavy rains recorded on the West Coast temporarily generated a body of water in the Badwater basin, located 282 feet below sea level
New York AG says she’ll seize Donald Trump’s property if he can’t pay $454 million civil fraud debt
With Trump promising to appeal, it’s unlikely he’ll have to pay the penalty — or face the prospect of having some of his assets seized — for a while
Biden calls Putin a ‘crazy SOB’ and takes aim at Trump during fundraiser for 2024 election
President Joe Biden was speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home. The Kremlin said Biden ‘behaves in the Hollywood cowboy style to serve internal political interests’
China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy
Two bears, a male and a female, are expected to arrive as early as the end of summer, about five years after the zoo sent its last pandas back to China
Generators, flashlights and urinals: The Gaza aid blocked by Israel on the grounds that it must not reach Hamas
Despite the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, NGOs say supplies have slowed down to a trickle due to bureaucratic obstacles, grueling inspections and arbitrary entry criteria
France says Russian forces threatened to shoot down surveillance aircraft patrolling the Black Sea
Russia is returning to a ‘particularly aggressive’ posture reminiscent of the former Soviet Union’s behavior during the Cold War, France’s defense minister said
The lion’s den in Spain that the murdered Russian defector Maxim Kuzminov walked into
After flying his helicopter into Ukraine, the pilot quietly moved to the Spanish Mediterranean, but he chose an area full of Russian and Ukrainian residents. Some locals say that may have made him easy to recognize
Chile alerts Interpol to kidnapping of former Venezuelan soldier in Santiago
Ronald Leandro Ojeda Moreno was taken from his apartment by four individuals posing as police officers. Authorities are not ruling out any hypothesis, including a Venezuelan counterintelligence operation
‘Rust’ case arrives in court with trial against armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed
The person in charge of the production’s armory could be sentenced to 18 months in prison if convicted in the investigation into the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins
Soccer star Dani Alves gets four and a half years in prison for sexual assault in Barcelona nightclub
A Spanish court considers it a proven fact that the former FC Barcelona player penetrated the victim vaginally without her consent, in what amounts to the first major trial following Spain’s new ‘Only Yes Means Yes’ law
New York prosecutor accuses former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández of ‘protecting’ drug traffickers
US authorities claim that the ex-leader worked ‘hand in hand’ with violent criminal organizations, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, to send cocaine into the United States
Biden working on a plan to restrict migrants’ ability to claim asylum
The decree would modify one of the most deeply rooted immigration guarantees in the United States, according to the executive order advanced by ‘The New York Times’
Gunmen sent by Moscow killed defector sheltering in Alicante, Spanish intelligence services say
Spain’s Foreign Ministry will send a strong response if the involvement of Russian secret services in the crime is proven
Sora: Everything we know about OpenAI’s new video creator
The impressive technology is not yet publicly available, but it could already be revolutionizing AI generated content as we know it