Journalism takes center stage in Venice with George Clooney, Rupert Murdoch and Gerda Taro
El País Englishby Elsa Fernández-Santos López·3 Sept 2026
George Clooney experienced his finest moment at the Venice Film Festival in 2005. It came thanks to his second film as a director, Good Night, and Good Luck, a restrained tribute to Edward R.
Average wages no longer buy a standard-size home in most of Europe
El País Englishby Denisse López·3 Sept 2026
The old maxim that steady employment and an average salary would guarantee you access to a decent home for starting a family is now faltering under the weight of a runaway housing market.
Killing of musician, his pregnant wife and their three-year-old daughter shakes Mexico
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·3 Sept 2026
A massacre carried out on Tuesday afternoon in Atizapán, in the State of Mexico near the capital, has left four people dead, including two women—one of them pregnant—and a three-year-old child.
Back to school in crisis-hit Cuba: families contend with shortage of uniforms, teachers and basic equipment
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·3 Sept 2026
His Revolution had not yet reached its first year and Fidel Castro, wearing the same military uniform he would use for the rest of his life, spoke to the crowds on September 14, 1959: “Do you think...
Death of young Haitian migrant highlights psychological harm of ICE’s ankle monitors
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·3 Sept 2026
This coming Friday the residents of Springfield, Ohio, are being called to a vigil to remember Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian man whom his family says died by suicide on Monday after...
Investment banks cool Trump’s optimism: Venezuelan oil will not lower prices
El País Englishby Carlos Méndez·3 Sept 2026
Investment banks are tempering the White House’s enthusiasm over the oil deal with Venezuela. UBS warns that crude output will take years to recover and will have limited short-term impact on...
Thousands of protesters march in Spain over Ceuta migrant crisis
El País Englishby Elsa García de Blas,EL PAÍS·3 Sept 2026
Tens of thousands of people marched across Spain on Wednesday to show support for the exclave city of Ceuta, a small Spanish territory located in North Africa where a crisis has been unfolding...
Why middle-aged men are buying coffee machines instead of convertibles: ‘These aren’t indulgences, they’re experiences’
El País Englishby Marita Alonso·2 Sept 2026
The midlife crisis has no proven biological basis and, in fact, some experts suggest it may be the one major crisis millennials manage to avoid.
Doris Salcedo, the artist who melted the FARC’s weapons: ‘Goya strips war of its heroic character’
El País Englishby Santiago Torrado·2 Sept 2026
Colombia continues to suffer the horrors of its many forms of violence. Nearly 10 years after the peace agreement with Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the country is entering a new...
Homeland Security secretary says ICE could be at polling places during November elections
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·2 Sept 2026
For months, Donald Trump’s administration has sought to dispel concerns about a possible presence of immigration agents at polling places during the November elections.
How DNA shapes who we are: More than 1,200 genetic variants help determine personality
El País Englishby Patricia Fernández de Lis·2 Sept 2026
Is a person’s character innate or acquired? Is biology or upbringing more important in shaping personality?
The disease behind most heart attacks starts building up in the arteries in early adulthood
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·2 Sept 2026
Cardiovascular disease does not appear suddenly. Heart attacks and strokes are the result of years of accumulated damage that causes neither pain nor obvious symptoms, which is why healthy eating...
Paula Ortiz Couder, the engineer who provides safety for humans going to the Moon: ‘What isn’t hostile in space?’
El País Englishby Nuño Domínguez·2 Sept 2026
Paula Ortiz Couder, 31, says she was born with a racket in her hand. The daughter and granddaughter of professional tennis players — her grandfather was a Davis Cup team captain — her fate seemed...
Judge in Charlie Kirk murder case sends it to trial and clears way for possible death penalty
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·2 Sept 2026
Nine days before the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s killing — a death the Trump movement turned into a symbol and an emblem of vengeance for the MAGA movement — a Utah state judge has sent...
US government and survivors of Bavispe cartel massacre dispute $1.2 million property seized from El Mencho’s son-in-law
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·2 Sept 2026
Bills bearing Benjamin Franklin’s portrait were stacked one on top of another until they totaled $1.2 million.
The Shield of the Americas, a major opportunity if built well
El País Englishby Juan Esteban Orduz·2 Sept 2026
When Donald Trump signed the Shield of the Americas proclamation at his Doral golf club on Saturday, March 7, the short four-point text was essentially a statement of intent.
Daniel Ortega suspends this year’s elections and extends his mandate until 2028
El País Englishby Wilfredo Miranda·2 Sept 2026
Following its defiant declaration that “there will be no more elections here” — which drew widespread condemnation — the Nicaraguan parliament, loyal to Daniel Ortega and his wife, co-president...
Conservative US gays drop the T for trans people: ‘We are an LGB organization’
El País Englishby Pablo León·2 Sept 2026
The U.S. organization Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative group that defends the rights of gay people and is linked to the Republican Party, has abandoned trans people and the defense of their...
US launches new military alliance with Colombia focused on Pacific narco-boats and the border with Ecuador
El País Englishby Diego Stacey·2 Sept 2026
The strengthening of military cooperation between Colombia and the United States is advancing at a rapid pace.
Alejandro Betancourt, Trump’s new Latin American oligarch
El País Englishby María Martín·2 Sept 2026
A 46-year-old businessman with a terrible reputation has just become Donald Trump’s oilman in Venezuela.
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