
Trump sweeps South Carolina primary and closes in on Republican nomination
The former president has clearly defeated Nikki Haley in her home state, but she has promised she to stay in the race until Super Tuesday

The former president has clearly defeated Nikki Haley in her home state, but she has promised she to stay in the race until Super Tuesday

Polls predict a landslide victory for the former president in the South Carolina primary, the state where his last remaining Republican rival was born and served as governor

The pricey, bulky device offers little innovation and limited user autonomy

After half-a-century of prohibition, the United States is about to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for clinical use, to treat people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or terminal cancer. Scientists, patients, clandestine therapists and war veterans speak with EL PAÍS about the bright spots and shadows of this rebirth

The justices must rule on whether to uphold or overturn Colorado’s decision to exclude him from the state’s ballot for having participated in an insurrection

Oral arguments will be held Thursday on whether the 14th Amendment prevents the former president from running for the White House again over his role in the Capitol riot

Prosecutors said Jennifer Crumbley was grossly negligent and did not do enough to prevent her son, Ethan, from killing four teenagers at his high school

A year ago, a train loaded with dangerous substances went off the tracks in this quiet town. Today, residents are divided between those who want to turn the page on the trauma and those who are still searching for answers

Pennsylvania celebrates the traditional weather festival, associated with the idea of annoying repetition, at the beginning of a campaign in which a repeat of the Biden-Trump duel is discouraging voters

The drone attack, which the Pentagon attributes to a militia financed by Iran, also wounded some 25 military personnel, the first casualties among U.S. forces since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza

Kenneth Eugene Smith was found guilty of murdering a woman in the 1980s and had survived another attempt at execution by lethal injection in which the vein could not be found

Death row convict Kenneth Eugene Smith, who is scheduled to die on Thursday, survived the first attempt in 2022, when the executioner was unable to raise the vein to administer a lethal injection
The war in Gaza and the rise of AI, among other threats, made the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists leave the symbolic time as close to midnight as last year: ‘Make no mistake: this is not an indication that the world is stable’

The now-defunct campaign of the Florida governor — who once looked like the only Republican capable of defeating Trump — failed due to his lack of charisma and a strategy full of miscalculations

In her new book ‘Doppelganger,’ the essayist — a leading voice of the anti-globalization movement — reflects on the parallel realities spawned by the internet and recreated in politics, the media and by artificial intelligence

Candidates are making a final push to mobilize their supporters amid fears of a low turnout at the start of the primaries due to the winter storm battering the state

Republicans and Democrats have been introducing changes to their primary process, with the two parties following different rules and calendars

The excitement of the first round of the Republican primaries, which is being held on Monday despite a record-breaking storm, is focused on the duel between Trump’s best positioned rivals

The former president wants to knock out his rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley before either can be perceived as a real alternative

It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on

After years of Black expression following the murder of George Floyd, Indigenous creativity has experienced an awakening across the United States, from art exhibitions in Washington, to series such as ‘Reservation Dogs’

Attempts to stop him in court have ignited the debate over whether preventing the most popular Republican candidate from running for office could end up damaging democracy

It is the second state to decide not to allow the Republican to participate in the presidential primaries because of the attack on the Capitol. Michigan decided Wednesday that he can run

Mexican President López Obrador meets with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas as the situation on the border between the two countries reaches a fever pitch

The writer — a leading figure in American poetry — reviews five decades of verses about intimacy, death, sexuality and family in an interview with EL PAÍS in New York City

The former military contractor engaged in one of the most serious corruption scandals in the U.S. Navy’s history and fled from house arrest in 2022

The House of Representatives and the Senate close for vacation without reaching an agreement on two connected issues: Republicans refuse to send aid to Kiev without guarantees of a tougher crackdown on the migrant crisis