CSU officials ended contract negotiations with a unilateral offer starting with a 5% pay raise this year, effective Jan. 31, far below the 12% hike that the union is seeking
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
The first generation of driverless vehicles has failed to catch on. But after 15 years of research, this Spanish engineer has founded a company in Canada that she sees as the solution: ‘We have the advantage of being second’
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
Mark Rober, a popular YouTuber and science educator whose videos have gone viral, has tried to address the rampant problem of ‘bipping’ in the California city
The federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by lack of affordable housing, a pandemic that economically wrecked households, and lack of access to mental health and addiction treatment
Their relationship is at times tense. Biden criticizes Mexico on topics such as fentanyl production and the killing of journalists and the Mexican president isn’t afraid to snub the U.S. leader
It splits the deadlines for passing full-year appropriations bills: Jan. 19 for some federal agencies and Feb. 2 for others, creating two dates when there will be a risk of a partial government shutdown
Traffic was snarled for hours after more than 200 demonstrators demanded that Biden, in San Francisco for the APEC leaders’ conference, call for an immediate cease-fire
David DePape, who faces up to 50 years in prison, admitted that he broke into the Pelosis’ home on Oct. 28, 2022, intending to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage and ‘break her kneecaps’
The leaders of the United States and China will meet in San Francisco with the aim of stabilizing relations. The fight against fentanyl trafficking is also on the agenda
The forum has limited scope. It is centered on trade and the economy. There is no military component and it wasn’t forged by a world-altering event like a war
Protests are expected throughout this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ conference, which could draw more than 20,000 attendees, including hundreds of international journalists
The White House is not expecting major changes to the relationship between the two nations, according to a person familiar with the planning, although it hopes to see some signs of progress
The Oct. 2 crash prompted Cruise to suspend driverless operations nationwide after California regulators found that its cars posed a danger to public safety
The company is paying the price for aggressive expansion in its early years. It entered into a restructuring support agreement with the majority of its stakeholders to ‘drastically reduce’ its debt
The company was set to unveil a GPT-4 Turbo that can retrieve information about world and cultural events as recent as April 2023 and a tool to describe what’s in images to people who are blind
Washington and Beijing have made overtures to each other in recent weeks as they prepare for a meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit
The settlements resolve investigations into the companies improperly charging drivers sales taxes and other fees when the costs should have been paid by customers
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reportedly agreed to meet on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco