Oil, the most sensitive issue in Venezuelan politics
The agreement announced by Donald Trump has sparked widespread unease in a country with a deeply rooted sense of ownership over its natural resources
The three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado’s death are free as the case moves toward a grand jury
Trump battles states over tuition breaks for undocumented students
The federal government has expanded its legal challenge to in-state tuition for undocumented students
A vice president at Bank of America died after being stabbed by a woman in Times Square
Mexican searcher for the disappeared survives attack in Sinaloa: ‘They wanted to kill me’
Two men opened fire on Alma Rosa Rojo on Saturday in Culiacán while she was traveling by car with her daughter and two granddaughters
Judge orders return of Mexican cartel witness deported three times
Nepal tragedy highlights a growing threat: 15 million people live at risk from glacial lakes
The global risk map for flash flooding caused by the overflow of these lakes, a phenomenon known as GLOF, has increased sixfold in a century, driven by climate change
Somali pirates demonstrate growing strength with new ship hijackings
Aided by a confluence of crises at home, in the Red Sea and in Hormuz, Somali groups have captured six ships since April in the biggest uptick in activity in years
Tropical Storm Edouard is moving toward Texas and Louisiana, bringing a risk of heavy rain and flooding
The storm could intensify before making landfall and bring up to 23 centimeters of rain to some areas
Jacqueline Harpman, the writer who made gender a literary problem, reemerges as a TikTok phenomenon
María Ovelar
‘Orlanda,’ the novel that inverts Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ and won the Belgian writer the Médicis in 1996, is being reissued in Spanish
From Lake Ontario to Lake America: Who gets to decide the names of geographical places?
While an executive order can impose a name within the United States, it cannot dictate how the rest of the world identifies a shared territory
The ‘new era’ of Latino socialists in New York: ‘If the Democratic Party wants to lead, it must create a solution to the immigration problem’
Several of these politicians have joined the call to abolish ICE and to demand immigration reform that protects undocumented people in the US
Kareem Rahma, the artist who failed several times before creating ‘SubwayTakes,’ the first social media talk show nominated for an Emmy
Filmed on the New York subway, the show invites guests including Rosalía, Zohran Mamdani, Javier Bardem and Matt Damon to share their hot takes
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys: From a secret romance exposed by a burglary to TV’s ultimate power couple
In Hollywood, where every relationship seems destined to make headlines, they have managed to keep theirs largely out of the spotlight
The women who dress their boyfriends as John Kennedy Jr. on TikTok
A new level of obsession with the golden couple of late 1990s Manhattan now goes beyond emulating Carolyn Bessette’s style to trying to turn partners and husbands into copies of the ‘Prince of America’
A Cuban theater group’s defiance against censorship: ‘We will no longer submit’
Tired of oversight and institutional suffocation, the members of El Ciervo Encantado, a benchmark of Cuban performance, have broken away from the state apparatus and are continuing their work in independent venues
Egg freezing gains traction among elite athletes: ‘There aren’t enough studies on how it affects them’
Meta’s legal woes are only just beginning, lawyers for affected families warn: ‘Our campaign to secure justice continues’
The tech giant still faces two major fronts in court: lawsuits brought by individual victims and claims from school districts
Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen disappear from the latest US famine reports: ‘Trump is politicizing the analysis’
The desert’s ‘resurrection plant’ paving the way to fridge-free vaccines
AI swarms turn on their creators: ‘It’s the first incident that has made my stomach churn’
Trump administration faces a major financial battle in the bond market
The Treasury is seeking unconventional ways to contain rising interest rates, with consequences for both Wall Street and ordinary Americans, as markets await Friday’s Jackson Hole gathering
Mexico falls behind in the new global oil map
Mexico watches US–Canada trade tension with uncertainty
After six months of war, Washington has failed to strangle Iran’s economy
Angélique Kidjo, the artist who changed how the world listens to Africa, now has a star in Hollywood
The first Black African artist to be recognized on the Walk of Fame has spent more than four decades proving that her continent’s music never needed to adapt in order to be universal
Lack of self-esteem and poor mental health: Why Vincent Van Gogh didn’t always put his name on his work
The Dutch artist only signed 15% of his 840 known paintings
‘The boundless ocean set into a rage’: Why we are still drawn to shipwrecks
Erin Brockovich is back: The activist Hollywood turned into a heroine is now taking on Meta and Google
Lidia A. Costa
Enrique Serna, author: ‘As a child, I had nightmares about being taken to the sacrificial stone’
The Mexican writer returns to historical fiction with a new novel that will be published this fall
Work & Lifestyle
Victoria Bodean, the mother with cerebral palsy showing the world how to overcome disability barriers
From endless scrolling to going back to an ex: Why we keep doing things we know aren’t good for us
From Capri to Biarritz, a photographic journey capturing the carefree life of the beach
Claude Nori
Tracing fictional crimes (and a very real one) through the streets of Paris
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Elías Jaua, former Venezuelan vice president: ‘After Chávez’s death, there was no referee, and we tore into each other’
Darializa Ávila Chevalier, the Afro-Latina socialist with one foot in Congress: ‘We need an economic system that gives people dignity’
Ceuta, the month that broke a city
Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister and an artist exhibiting in Paris and New York
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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