Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn’t it causing a scandal in the United States?
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·13d ago
All three are well-known, globally recognized, and outstanding women in their fields. All three became mothers just days ago, almost simultaneously.
If you fire missiles at me, I’ll cut off your water supply: The cyberattacks attributed to Iran that showed the US is vulnerable
El País Englishby Manu González Pascual·13d ago
Water service failed in at least 300,000 Atlanta households on July 27. Taps ran, but only a trickle came out.
The founders of On, the phenomenon attracting Kylian Mbappé and Zendaya: ‘Cost is not a limiting factor; our followers are willing to pay’
El País Englishby Patricia Rodríguez·13d ago
You may have recently come across some of these athletic shoes with unsettling holes in the sole. If you noticed them, you might already have seen a lot of them.
Florida and Texas: The frontiers of reproductive health and abortion access in the US
El País Englishby Desirée Yépez·13d ago
Known as the tomato capital of the United States, Immokalee is an agricultural community in southern Florida.
Two dozen children vs Pablo Escobar’s hippo: The legal battle to get to a Colombian school
El País Englishby Noor Mahtani Mahtani·13d ago
Twenty-three children make their way to school with their eyes glued to the murky water of the Nare River to see if they can see the hippopotamus.
Absentee and early voting in the US: What to know before the November 3 midterms
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·14d ago
The U.S. midterm elections are not limited to Tuesday, November 3. For millions of voters, Election Day will begin much earlier, either through in-person early voting or by casting a mail-in...
Health issues or legal strategy? Defense and prosecutors clash over Cilia Flores’s condition
El País Englishby Maye Primera·14d ago
The same week Delcy Rodríguez was received in New York as Venezuela’s interim ruler and met with Donald Trump in Manhattan, the U.S.
Deliberately losing a Michelin star to try to win it back in 52 days: Apple TV’s culinary miracles
El País Englishby Héctor Llanos Martínez·14d ago
Jesse Burgess, host, filmmaker and co-founder of the award-winning food and travel channel Topjaw, says his role in the documentary series Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars is a dream job.
How Putin, Trump and Xi are aiming to make the EU fail
El País Englishby Andrea Rizzi·14d ago
Vladimir Putin is in trouble. The war in Ukraine is not going well for him; casualties are mounting at an alarming rate; discontent in Russian society is growing amid serious economic hardships...
China, the white elephant in US–Mexico trade negotiations
El País Englishby Karina Suárez Rodríguez·14d ago
Commercial integration between Mexico and the United States, under the protection of the USMCA trade agreement, will first have to navigate a complicated customs issue: China.
Trump’s broken promise on crypto: a gold mine for his empire, multimillion-dollar losses for investors
El País Englishby Elisa Tasca,Jesús-Sérvulo González Moreno·14d ago
“I made a fortune with Trump’s memecoin, but I lost it all the following month,” a user on X admits. “It’s a perfect Ponzi scheme,” says another.
A woman at the helm of the United Nations
El País Englishby EL PAÍS·14d ago
The 81st UN General Assembly, which ends this Monday, will be remembered for the photograph of a smiling Delcy Rodríguez and Donald Trump—a perfect metaphor for the new era in Venezuela–U.S.
Maricarmen, elderly woman evicted from home in Spain, becomes a global symbol for housing activists
El País Englishby Beatriz Olaizola,Lucía Franco·14d ago
They came to Madrid to counterprogram one of Europe’s largest real estate fairs, The District. What they found was an 87-year-old woman who was about to be evicted from their home — and was, before...
After María Corina Machado’s failed attempts to return to Venezuela, her communications chief does so instead
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·14d ago
Claudia Macero, the communications chief for opposition leader María Corina Machado, returned to Venezuela on Sunday night after nearly a year and a half in exile.
Sheinbaum at the Zócalo: ‘Mexicans do not want interference, interventionism or violation of our territoriality’
El País Englishby Zedryk Raziel·14d ago
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, addressed a massive crowd this Sunday at the emblematic Zócalo square in Mexico City, just a few days before the start of her third year in office.
Trump’s obsessions are hurting Republicans ahead of midterms
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·14d ago
There is a phrase in Trumpist newspeak used to indicate that the president of the United States is on top of matters — “maintains laser focus.” The problem, just a little over a month before the...
Madonna and Taylor Swift, queens of an MTV VMA ceremony steeped in nostalgia for Dolly Parton, Nirvana and George Michael
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·14d ago
It has been 42 years since MTV began honoring what it knows best and what, at the time, few people valued: music videos. Four decades have passed and much has changed in the industry.
The suffocation of Israeli filmmakers: ‘Critical culture is now regarded as an act of treason’
El País Englishby Beatriz Lecumberri·15d ago
In September 2025, the film that won the most awards at the Ophir Awards, Israel’s equivalent of Spain’s Goyas, was The Sea, which tells the story of a Palestinian boy who sneaks past checkpoints...
The perfect, affordable home: The utopia that architecture has been promising for a century
El País Englishby Eva Morell García-Carpintero·15d ago
In 1927, the American architect and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller proclaimed an idea that sounded like a joke: the possibility of owning a house for the same price as a car.
Is there a 10% chance that AI will kill us all?
El País Englishby Kiko Llaneras·15d ago
In 2024 I sketched a map to situate what experts and commentators expected from artificial intelligence. It had two axes: how much will it advance? and will it be beneficial or dangerous?
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