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From pressure on election officials to ballot seizures and the possible deployment of federal agents, experts outline eight scenarios that could unfold in the final days before the vote on November 3

The case of one of the 21 children rescued from a luxury mansion sheds light on the abuse inside the home and the surrogacy network behind it

From Texas to California, Republicans and Democrats have redrawn district maps to secure key seats ahead of the pivotal midterm elections

Voters interviewed by EL PAÍS have diverse opinions on Proposition 40, a proposal to create a billionaire tax and use the money to offset federal cuts to public services. Polls also reflect a divided electorate

Each year, more than one million Hispanics turn 18 in the United States. Trump’s immigration policy will define many of their votes in the November 3 election

As six-figure-salary engineers arrive to work in Silicon Valley, Latino families and workers are forced to leave. The mayor has declared a ‘rent emergency’

The Los Angeles County elections office determined, after reviewing a sample, that at least 40% are US citizens. Suspicions that the federal administration’s actions are politically motivated have intensified

Officials from the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security have been going door-to-door in search of potential non-naturalized migrants who may have voted or are registered to vote, just days before the midterms

The Trump administration’s latest offensive centers on claims that thousands of non-citizens are registered on the state’s voter rolls

Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, has the highest concentration of data centers in the world. It is also the richest county in the US, with a median income of $180,000 per person 

A dozen companies were operated by Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, who have been charged with abusing 21 children in a luxurious Los Angeles residence

Rugged trucks, such as Chevy Suburbans and Ford Raptors, are sometimes outfitted with ballistic-proof steel plating, firing ports and gun mounts

Two sons of El Mayo Zambada, El Chapo’s twin daughters, his wife Emma Coronel, three of El Mencho’s children and his stepson were born in the US state

Édgar Vázquez Silva, a DACA beneficiary, stopped being a law enforcement officer because he was required to be a US citizen or legal resident

Millions of residents of that state have voted to abolish capital punishment, a measure now under consideration by Governor Gavin Newsom

A UnidosUS poll identifies the cost of living as the top concern for 83% of Hispanics, an electorate that will be decisive in 12 of the 37 most competitive districts

The president continues to drag down Republican candidates running for California governor and state attorney general, as well as other key positions and House seats

Several states will put proposals to a referendum that aim to ensure that only citizens can vote in the upcoming elections

EL PAÍS has gained access to civil registry records and, based on that information, has pieced together part of the background of Ismael Zambada Sicairos, who inherited from his father a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel with a strong presence in Baja California

After a hiatus caused by a health crisis that pushed them to their limits, the California band is making a triumphant return to the stage with their album ‘Everything Glows’

The NASA astronaut, who will visit Spain in October to attend the Starmus Festival, gives an exclusive interview to EL PAÍS after his historic trip around the satellite

Joel René Cárdenas Carrillo, a Mexican migrant who holds US citizenship, was arrested during a trip back to Colima yet his name does not show up in the National Detention Registry. His wife is caught in a bureaucratic maze as she fights to clear his name

The candidates faced off in the first televised debate just over a month before the contest to govern the country’s most populous state

Oregon and Wyoming are the only two states in which no one has received this sentence

The closure of the controversial attraction was announced weeks after CNN published an investigative report featuring accounts from more than a dozen people who were seriously injured