Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister and an artist exhibiting in Paris and New York
El País Englishby Igor López·29 Aug 2026
“Art is an attempt not to become totally insane. Because politics can be insane. And the risk of becoming totally stupid is really very imminent when you do politics.” Edi Rama, 62, is the man...
Charts that explain the rise of artificial intelligence
El País Englishby Kiko Llaneras,Pablo Montalvo,Sebastián Casse·29 Aug 2026
In just four years, artificial intelligence has emerged onto the world stage and transformed it. In the autumn of 2022, ChatGPT went viral: it made amusing mistakes and yet still gave the...
AI swarms turn on their creators: It’s the first incident that has made my stomach churn’
El País Englishby Patricia Fernández de Lis·29 Aug 2026
This summer, in the space of just a few weeks, the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies have, one after another, announced that they caught their models doing things nobody had asked...
Can US progressives deliver economic growth?
El País Englishby Rick McGahey·29 Aug 2026
When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Anthony Shorris and Lina Khan to lead the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) — as president and board chair, respectively — he did more than...
Marcelo Lucero’s killing returns to the spotlight 18 years later: ‘The violence is back, but now it comes from ICE agents’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·29 Aug 2026
He wears a light pink dress shirt and a blue suit. It’s an important day. At 4 p.m., in Washington, D.C., Joselo Lucero takes his seat. He’s in a building that’s located on F Street Northwest.
Six months without El Mencho in Mexico
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·29 Aug 2026
Mexico is becoming accustomed to life without El Mencho, a towering figure in the continent’s criminal narrative who evaded justice for years while building his formidable criminal empire.
The California ranch owned by the new CJNG leader, which the Trump administration is seeking to seize
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·29 Aug 2026
He used only his mother’s surname — González — when he bought a ranch in California that was offered to him for $250,000.
When Cádiz was the gateway to the United States
El País Englishby Jesús Antonio Cañas·28 Aug 2026
Long before thousands of U.S. troops disembarked at the naval base in Rota in the province of Cádiz, other Americans were arriving at the capital’s port laden with wheat, flour, or rice.
Despite criticism, ICE will deploy gloves that deliver electric shocks for its immigration enforcement operations
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·28 Aug 2026
They look like ordinary tactical gloves, but with the press of a button they can become a tool capable of delivering a painful electric shock to anyone an immigration officer touches with them.
Trump’s restrictions on mail-in voting stall in the courts
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·28 Aug 2026
The judicial back-and-forth over mail-in voting shows no sign of abating in the United States. Just a day after a judge removed the last obstacle preventing President Donald Trump from restricting...
Fundación Chuwie: A sloth rescue center on the verge of shutting down in Venezuela
El País Englishby Diego Torres Pantin·28 Aug 2026
Juan Carlos Rodríguez pulls over on a road lined with forest. He takes out a rope and starts tossing it at the branches of a yagrumo (Cecropia peltata), a common tree in Venezuela.
How a holiday in Spain ended in tragedy for an Irish-New Zealand couple
El País Englishby Cristina Vázquez Navarro·28 Aug 2026
The deaths of a couple, a 48-year-old New Zealander and his 51-year-old Irish wife, in a vacation rental in the seaside town of Cullera, on Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast, appear to have been...
ILO proposes dismissing 120 staff to offset part of the United States’ debt to the organization
El País Englishby Raquel Cortés Pascual·28 Aug 2026
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Office, led by Director‑General Gilbert F. Houngbo, has informed its governing body that “it will be necessary to save $22 million” amid a severe...
The women standing by Lindsay Clancy: ‘We need to understand what drove her to kill her children. It cannot happen again’
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·28 Aug 2026
Jeanne, Marta, Rebeca and Ariana. Four women from four different generations, with different outlooks on life and from different parts of the United States.
Fears of a second flood grow in Nepal and Tibet as more than 1,500 remain missing
El País Englishby Inma Bonet Bailén·28 Aug 2026
The emergency in the Himalayas entered a particularly critical phase on Friday, with China and Nepal locked in a race against rising waters.
Geographies of cruelty: The shifting map of Mexico’s clandestine graves
El País Englishby Jesús García Cruz,Mónica Juárez Martín·28 Aug 2026
Clandestine graves have spread across Mexico over the past two decades. They are not concentrated in a single region, nor do they follow a single pattern, but their expansion and shifting geography...
‘Our students need to know that we’re here to fight for them’: A school organizes to protect its students from ICE
El País Englishby Cora Cervantes·28 Aug 2026
This report was produced by MindSite News, a nonprofit outlet specializing in mental health that also publishes a free newsletter.
Norway’s crown prince becomes King Haakon VIII amid family scandals: From Epstein ties to a shaman brother-in-law
El País Englishby Ferrer Ferrer·28 Aug 2026
Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, 53, will ascend the throne as Haakon VIII upon the death of his father, King Harald V, who died Friday at the age of 89.
In the US, ICE arrests at school bus stops spark fear as students return to class
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·28 Aug 2026
This Tuesday, the biggest event in the city of Danbury, Connecticut, was the start of the new school year, much as it was in other states across the country.
The Strait of Hormuz after six months of war: Blockades, drones and the shadow fleet
El País Englishby Andrés Mourenza·28 Aug 2026
Six months have passed since U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began launching missiles at Iran, a conflict that has disrupted some of the world’s main trade...
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