Angélique Kidjo, the artist who changed how the world listens to Africa, now has a star in Hollywood
El País Englishby Chema Caballero·30 Aug 2026
When Angélique Kidjo knelt on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this past August 18 to unveil her star, the scene felt like a historical moment of redress.
Elías Jaua, former Venezuelan vice president: ‘After Chávez’s death, there was no referee, and we tore into each other’
El País Englishby Boris Muñoz·30 Aug 2026
Many of the historic figures of Chavismo, the political movement founded by former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, backed Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government after Nicolás Maduro was extracted...
Fear of ICE hinders the rebuilding of California’s fire-ravaged zones
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·30 Aug 2026
The sound of hammers, drills and Mexican music herald the rising from the ashes of Altadena. Just over a year ago, only the charred remains of homes blasted by the Eaton wildfires were in evidence.
A three-year-old’s broken world after his father’s immigration detention
El País Englishby Cora Cervantes·30 Aug 2026
This report was produced by MindSite News, a nonprofit news website covering mental health that publishes a free newsletter.
The shadow of the United States lengthens over southern Greenland: ‘We are going to lose our homes’
El País Englishby Carlos Torralba·30 Aug 2026
The Narsarsuaq Museum no longer has set opening hours. Since the airport closed in the spring, few visitors come to this remote settlement in southern Greenland.
Darializa Ávila Chevalier, the Afro-Latina socialist with one foot in Congress: ‘We need an economic system that gives people dignity’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·30 Aug 2026
She is slender, dressed in a blue linen shirt, high-waisted jeans and Veja sneakers. Her curls are neatly arranged, she wears white-framed glasses and a nose piercing.
Ella Rubin, the ‘Sterling Point’ star everyone is comparing to Julia Roberts
El País Englishby Carlos Megía·29 Aug 2026
There are faces that seem familiar even before we know where we have seen them. That’s the case with Ella Rubin, the actress who plays Annie Jacobson, the lead character in Sterling Point, Prime...
In the Spanish city of Valencia, fascist squads patrol the streets
El País Englishby Joaquín Gil·29 Aug 2026
They call themselves the “Angels of the Night.” On paper, they present themselves as a grassroots neighborhood group alarmed by rising crime in Valencia.
Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister and an artist exhibiting in Paris and New York
El País Englishby Igor López·29 Aug 2026
“Art is an attempt not to become totally insane. Because politics can be insane. And the risk of becoming totally stupid is really very imminent when you do politics.” Edi Rama, 62, is the man...
Charts that explain the rise of artificial intelligence
El País Englishby Kiko Llaneras,Pablo Montalvo,Sebastián Casse·29 Aug 2026
In just four years, artificial intelligence has emerged onto the world stage and transformed it. In the autumn of 2022, ChatGPT went viral: it made amusing mistakes and yet still gave the...
AI swarms turn on their creators: It’s the first incident that has made my stomach churn’
El País Englishby Patricia Fernández de Lis·29 Aug 2026
This summer, in the space of just a few weeks, the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies have, one after another, announced that they caught their models doing things nobody had asked...
Can US progressives deliver economic growth?
El País Englishby Rick McGahey·29 Aug 2026
When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Anthony Shorris and Lina Khan to lead the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) — as president and board chair, respectively — he did more than...
Marcelo Lucero’s killing returns to the spotlight 18 years later: ‘The violence is back, but now it comes from ICE agents’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·29 Aug 2026
He wears a light pink dress shirt and a blue suit. It’s an important day. At 4 p.m., in Washington, D.C., Joselo Lucero takes his seat. He’s in a building that’s located on F Street Northwest.
Six months without El Mencho in Mexico
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·29 Aug 2026
Mexico is becoming accustomed to life without El Mencho, a towering figure in the continent’s criminal narrative who evaded justice for years while building his formidable criminal empire.
The California ranch owned by the new CJNG leader, which the Trump administration is seeking to seize
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·29 Aug 2026
He used only his mother’s surname — González — when he bought a ranch in California that was offered to him for $250,000.
When Cádiz was the gateway to the United States
El País Englishby Jesús Antonio Cañas·28 Aug 2026
Long before thousands of U.S. troops disembarked at the naval base in Rota in the province of Cádiz, other Americans were arriving at the capital’s port laden with wheat, flour, or rice.
Despite criticism, ICE will deploy gloves that deliver electric shocks for its immigration enforcement operations
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·28 Aug 2026
They look like ordinary tactical gloves, but with the press of a button they can become a tool capable of delivering a painful electric shock to anyone an immigration officer touches with them.
Trump’s restrictions on mail-in voting stall in the courts
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·28 Aug 2026
The judicial back-and-forth over mail-in voting shows no sign of abating in the United States. Just a day after a judge removed the last obstacle preventing President Donald Trump from restricting...
Fundación Chuwie: A sloth rescue center on the verge of shutting down in Venezuela
El País Englishby Diego Torres Pantin·28 Aug 2026
Juan Carlos Rodríguez pulls over on a road lined with forest. He takes out a rope and starts tossing it at the branches of a yagrumo (Cecropia peltata), a common tree in Venezuela.
How a holiday in Spain ended in tragedy for an Irish-New Zealand couple
El País Englishby Cristina Vázquez Navarro·28 Aug 2026
The deaths of a couple, a 48-year-old New Zealander and his 51-year-old Irish wife, in a vacation rental in the seaside town of Cullera, on Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast, appear to have been...
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