From a taqueria to a café: The California businesses linked to relatives of ‘El Mencho’
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·5 Sept 2026
Luck turned against Marín Oseguera Cervantes in June 2013. Filing for bankruptcy in a California court, he said he had $117,000 in debt and only $38 in his pocket.
Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor: ‘The United States has failed spectacularly in this case’
El País Englishby Hannah Slack·5 Sept 2026
Since she was a child, Dani Bensky, 39, dreamed of stepping onto a stage and performing. Ballet was her passion.
US military campaign in Latin America enters a new phase after a year of strikes on alleged drug-running boats
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy·5 Sept 2026
A fast boat carrying 11 people huddled aboard was crossing the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela on September 2 of last year. A missile blew it apart. Nine occupants died instantly.
Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocks
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·4 Sept 2026
The legal drama surrounding Lindsay Clancy, broadcast live for the past six weeks and followed passionately by people around the world, entered a new chapter on Friday after the 12 jurors failed to...
The hummingbirds that hold 80 years of pollution in their feathers
El País Englishby Mariana Mastache-Maldonado·4 Sept 2026
Hummingbirds molt at least three times throughout their lives. And each shedding of feathers enables these birds to perform their characteristic hovering flight — that ability to float without...
Reality was worse than ‘Zoolander’: the parody that predicted the influencer world 25 years ago
El País Englishby Juanjo Villalba·4 Sept 2026
A few days ago, a crowd of young people gathered beside Barcelona’s Arc de Triomf to take part in an event as new as it was unsettling.
GRN gene: When genetic information upends life
El País Englishby Susana Lay·4 Sept 2026
Rosa Rivoira was 25 and her sister Carmen was 29 when they received the diagnosis that their mother, the Argentine architect and visual artist Eugenia Streb, had frontotemporal dementia.
A ‘spaceship’ in the heart of Manhattan: Can New York’s most distinctive building be saved?
El País Englishby Miquel Echarri·4 Sept 2026
The so-called “Bubble House” has found a buyer. Unfortunately, the new owners do not seem especially inclined to preserve the distinctive facade that makes it unique.
Benjamin Moser: ‘Many countries opposed Nazism. Who is opposing Netanyahu? Only Pedro Sánchez’
El País Englishby Anatxu Zabalbeascoa·4 Sept 2026
Benjamin Moser, 49, lives in a house near the caves of Lascaux that is quite literally lost in France’s Périgord region.
The case that shocked Mexico: The investigation into the murders of Jonathan Meléndez and his family
El País Englishby Beatriz Guillén·4 Sept 2026
As Mexico searches for answers to one of the country’s most shocking crimes in recent years, little is known about the man accused of carrying it out.
Milei seizes on Trump remarks to revive Argentina’s Falklands claim
El País Englishby Javier Lorca·4 Sept 2026
Perhaps more than ever before, Javier Milei departed from his trademark closing slogan. He left out the familiar “Long live freedom, damn it” and replaced it with “Long live the homeland.” Nor was...
‘Professors fear they could get in trouble for what they teach’: State laws bring censorship to US universities
El País Englishby Maye Primera·4 Sept 2026
Teaching Plato’s Symposium under Texas education rules cost Dr. Martin Peterson his position as a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University.
As irregular crossings fall, Border Patrol shifts focus from the wall to the highways
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·4 Sept 2026
A 109-degree Fahrenheit sun beat down on Highway 8 near Yuma, Arizona. A young driver, stopped by Border Patrol agents, tried to convince them there was no reason to pull him over in such scorching...
Cuba opens business ownership to emigrants: ‘Who is going to buy what you are going to sell? How will you finance it?’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·4 Sept 2026
The Cuban government, in the midst of the worst crisis in its history, is now admitting something it struggled for decades to accept: that if anyone can save the country, it is Cubans themselves.
The summer Spain’s Queen Sofía could have married Harald of Norway
El País Englishby Martín Bianchi Tasso·3 Sept 2026
In the summer of 1954, Queen Frederica of Greece organized an 11-day cruise through the Aegean Sea for around a hundred European princes and princesses.
Judge blocks Trump’s new attempt to limit birthright citizenship in the US
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·3 Sept 2026
Donald Trump’s latest effort to limit the right to birthright citizenship has been blocked. A federal judge in Maryland has temporarily halted the administration’s new attempt to deny U.S.
‘Despite being an action star, he is very insecure and shy’: Jean-Claude Van Damme’s downfalls and comebacks
El País Englishby Jaime Lorite Chinchón·3 Sept 2026
Ciudad Real Airport was one of the great fiascos of Spain’s property bubble era, a ghost airport that cost up to €1 billion ($1.16 billion) and was eventually auctioned off for a fraction of that...
A traveling circus for the horror of Gaza
El País Englishby Antonio Pita·3 Sept 2026
In 2018, after spending his adolescence in an Israeli-blockaded Gaza watching videos online about circus activities abroad, Muhammad Jader decided to bring what he had learned to his community.
The most detailed brain wiring diagram yet: How 166,000 neurons govern the fruit fly’s behavior
El País Englishby Ana Lozano del Campo·3 Sept 2026
For years, neuroscience has sought to understand what the mind is and where human behavior comes from.
Inside the US-Venezuela oil agreements: Big promises, little clarity
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·3 Sept 2026
The oil agreement announced between the United States and Venezuela has been touted with great fanfare for the many benefits it is supposedly set to deliver.
Your filters hide everything on this page. Adjust them in preferences.