Tensions mount on Mexico-US border amid drones and shootouts
The deployment of troops to the Texas and Tamaulipas area over a possible attack on US Coast Guard personnel coincides with increased drone use by cartels
Checks for voters, Trump’s strategy to turn the midterms around
The president has promised payments ranging from $90 up to $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress
Key points from the Supreme Court case against the oil companies
The city of Boulder, Colorado is challenging the US energy sector
Colombia and Ecuador step up hunt for Ecuadorian gang leaders
Luis Har, former hostage in Gaza: ‘If it had been up to our government, we’d still be there’
The Argentine-Israeli, rescued by the IDF after 129 days in captivity, admits ‘resentment’ that it took so long to bring back the last captives
The Bolsonaro clan: A presidential hopeful, four new parliamentarians and a tangle of internal issues
A guide to navigating the family tree of the family that aims to return to power in Brazil while fighting over the political brand created by Jair, the patriarch
Venezuela confirms it did not seek Nicolás Maduro’s release or request immunity to prevent US trial
Prosecutors handling the case against the former head of state argue that neither the White House nor Miraflores Palace recognized Maduro as president, so neither should the federal court
Kaliningrad, the Russian militarized exclave surrounded by NATO that triggered Putin’s nuclear threat
The only Russian port operable in winter is both an asset and a vulnerability for the Kremlin
Spain calls snap election as housing protests spread nationwide
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez brings elections forward to November 29 after Congress rejected two decrees aimed at addressing the crisis
Mayito Flaco’s hidden past in the US
Ismael Zambada Sicairos inherited from his father a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel with a strong presence in Baja California
‘Cornell protects rapists’: Outrage after leniency toward accused comes to light
Two of the ‘Cornell 7’ accused of assaulting a female student were expelled, while others were only required to write papers or take courses on sexual violence
What authorities have said about plague alert after death of a laboratory worker in Russia
Health authorities maintain that the researcher died of a case of pneumonia of unknown cause
Cannons and the glow after the crisis: ‘Good things really come from getting through tough times together’
After a hiatus caused by a health crisis that pushed them to their limits, the California band is making a triumphant return to the stage with their album ‘Everything Glows’
The dark side of Starship’s success: Musk sidelines NASA in his bid to dominate space
SpaceX is focused on its giant Starship rocket to expand the Starlink network and deploy orbital AI data centers, rather than on returning humans to the Moon or launching satellites for other customers
My North Korean neighbors
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea keeps its massive embassy in Berlin open, although it is virtually inactive
Vincent Cassel: ‘There are things that are good for your career and others that you like: always do the latter’
The emblematic French actor, about to turn 60 and busy with the filming of the new season of ‘The White Lotus,’ becomes the hunchback of Notre-Dame in the film ‘Quasimodo’
The migration routes of pollution: How ozone, Saharan dust and wildfire smoke cross borders
For the first time, the EU’s Copernicus system has mapped the transboundary pollution that travels thousands of miles and is fueled by emissions and heat
Victor Glover, Artemis 2 pilot: ‘This race, for us, is not about beating China to the Moon. We will, but this race is to get humans to Mars’
The search for life on Mars begins with ‘Charlie’ in Spain’s Almería desert
AI’s top leaders, like children afraid of a bully
Brett Christophers, economic geographer: ‘In contemporary capitalism, the right to housing does not exist’
The British academic and essayist, an expert on the strategies of investment funds, says the concept has been replaced by the right to ‘buy a house’
The founders of On, the phenomenon attracting Mbappé and Zendaya
Trump’s broken promise on crypto: a gold mine for his empire, multimillion-dollar losses for investors
The yield on the US 10-year Treasury reached its highest level in two decades. Why should you care?
Culture refocuses attention on the Palestinian cause: ‘It has always been central to political struggle’
Musicians’ tours, film festivals and literary forums keep the flame for Gaza alive and spark debates about the limits of free expression
Tom Cruise vs. the world: Actor faces jokes about his age, his Oscar bid, and his return to the media spotlight
Cruise is once again to be found on the interview circuit for ‘Digger’
Jahel Queralt, essayist: ‘Those who most criticize meritocracy are those who need it the least’
Eric Sadin: ‘AI reeks of death’
The French philosopher, a leading voice in the resistance against runaway technological change, believes that artificial intelligence is a catastrophe that should have been banned
Naomi Lautier: The pure talent of a 14-year-old creator living between autism and the art world
Work & Lifestyle
Turning offices into homes: Manhattan’s solution to its housing crisis... but with some risks
The just-world hypothesis and other mental traps that guide us, but that we can avoid
Johnny Cross, ‘the vegan butcher’: ‘I’ve been in the world 34 years and I’ve never eaten meat or fish, and I’m alive, I’m healthy’
Life and death by email: ‘How do you believe in God, professor?’
Celebrities, Movies & TV
The miracle of ‘Romeo + Juliet’: How Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes and Baz Luhrmann reinvented Shakespeare
Surviving Hurricane Otis: Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau crafts ambitious film about two sailors who lived to tell the tale
Lili Reinhart, the actress looking for success away from Hollywood clichés
Sylvester Stallone: ‘I don’t know what the new masculinities are. It’s in a man’s nature to conquer’
The bursting of the Cristiano Ronaldo bubble
The 41-year-old captain’s decision to leave the national team training camp appears to have brought an end to an era in which the star player was overhyped at the expense of Portugal’s collective performance in two World Cups
Our selection
Charles Spencer: ‘The tragedy of the royal family was not knowing how to embrace the opportunity that my sister Diana represented’
Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’
‘The truth is Cuba has already fallen’: the United States’ strategy to subdue the island
Volodymyr Zelenskiy to EL PAÍS, on the new Russian offensive against Kyiv: ‘Putin isn’t afraid of Europeans’
EL PAÍS offers free Spanish lessons with Gymglish
Readers who sign up will receive a 15-day free trial of the online classes, which are adapted to a student’s specific needs
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