Abortion measures return to the ballot in US midterms
El País Englishby Maye Primera·3d ago
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, states have been responsible for regulating access to the...
Gina Hinojosa gains ground in Texas governor’s race as Democratic leaders push for more campaign funding
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·4d ago
When Republican Greg Abbott was re-elected governor of Texas in 2022, his margin over opponent Beto O’Rourke was nearly 11 percentage points.
New US security agreement requires Greenland to remain in NATO if it becomes independent
El País Englishby Adrián Sagredo·4d ago
Seventy-five years after the 1951 defense agreement, the new security pact commits Greenland to remaining in NATO even if it one day gains independence from Denmark.
Timeline of the Maricarmen case: From four eviction attempts to a housing movement that shook Spain
El País Englishby Beatriz Olaizola·4d ago
Maricarmen Abascal faced four eviction attempts, and the last one succeeded. It happened two weeks ago.
‘Thank you for changing Spain’: Madrid’s Sol protest camp mourns Maricarmen
El País Englishby Manuel Jabois·4d ago
When news of the death of Maricarmen Abascal began to spread through the protest camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, many at first dismissed it as a cruel joke.
Maricarmen, the woman who became a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, dies at 87
El País Englishby Lucía Franco·4d ago
Maricarmen Abascal, the woman whose eviction became a rallying cry against Spain’s housing crisis, died on Wednesday at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañón Hospital at the age of 87, the Tenants’ Union...
Corinna Lain, death penalty expert: ‘Lethal injection has been problematic from the start’
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·4d ago
Christa Pike was supposed to be executed on September 30 at a Tennessee prison for the 1995 murder of a fellow student.
Hispanidad or latinidad: Shakira opens debate on cultural identity beyond a common language
El País Englishby Manuel Morales Ruiz·4d ago
And Shakira said: “Let’s not speak only of hispanidad: let’s speak of latinidad, an even broader embrace. Hispanidad is beautiful, but it falls short of everything we are.
The age of nuclear clocks is here: A new tool for probing the laws of physics
El País Englishby Miguel Ángel Criado·4d ago
Welcome to the age of nuclear clocks. They are not yet as precise as the atomic clocks that keep time (and much more) in modern society.
Rosalind Franklin had seen the helix: A forgotten photograph rewrites the history of DNA’s structure
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·4d ago
For decades, one of the best-known stories in science was told like a movie. In 1953, at the age of 23, James Watson visited Maurice Wilkins’s laboratory at King’s College London.
The Madrid bear sculpture meant for a Miami roundabout that ended up inside a restaurant instead
El País Englishby Fernando Peinado,Abel Fernández·4d ago
Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. That’s what happened to the regional premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in June 2022 during one of her trips to Miami, where she posed...
Flávio Bolsonaro announces he wants to ‘reform the Constitution to redemocratize’ Brazil
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·4d ago
Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to win Brazil’s presidential election before the end of the month, announced Tuesday that he intends to leverage the large parliamentary bloc won by...
The desperate effort to send food via drones to a Ukrainian city starving under Russian occupation
El País Englishby Luis De Vega Hernández·4d ago
“Thanks to our beloved soldiers. We await you in our unbreakable city,” reads a handwritten note beside cans and other foodstuffs received to stave off hunger in Oleshky, a city occupied by Russia.
Lourdes M. Rosado, president of LatinoJustice: ‘These elections are the opportunity to tell Trump that his policies are not acceptable’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·4d ago
John Roberts, the discreet justice who has presided over the United States Supreme Court for two decades, was upset some time ago that people believed the nation’s highest court was making...
Forty percent of US Latinos report being worse off financially than a year ago
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·4d ago
In the 2024 elections, the Latino vote took center stage, proving decisive for Donald Trump’s victory.
The Christa Pike case and the ethical dilemma of saving someone the state is trying to kill
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·4d ago
Christa Pike, 50, has been hospitalized for almost a week after receiving two injections that allegedly contained lethal pentobarbital.
The electoral cost of Trump’s remarks that Iran could ‘take out’ LA or San Diego
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·4d ago
President Donald Trump said it without weighing the possible electoral consequences for Republican candidates in California, less than a month before the midterm elections.
Nearly two decades on death row in Texas: The legal fight to save Melissa Lucio from lethal injection
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·5d ago
When attorney Vanessa Potkin learned about the botched execution of inmate Christa Pike, she worried that her client, Melissa Lucio, would hear what had happened in Tennessee and think about what...
US moves spy drones from Africa to Colombia and Ecuador to combat drug trafficking
El País Englishby Lucas Reynoso·5d ago
The United States has sent spy drones to Colombia and Ecuador to support both countries’ actions against organized crime, two military sources told the newspaper The New York Times.
Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock muse whose career spanned nearly eight decades
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·5d ago
Eva Marie Saint, one of the last great actresses from Alfred Hitchcock’s universe, died on Tuesday, October 6 at her home in Los Angeles, family representatives said. She was 102.
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