As irregular crossings fall, Border Patrol shifts focus from the wall to the highways
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·4 Sept 2026
A 109-degree Fahrenheit sun beat down on Highway 8 near Yuma, Arizona. A young driver, stopped by Border Patrol agents, tried to convince them there was no reason to pull him over in such scorching...
Cuba opens business ownership to emigrants: ‘Who is going to buy what you are going to sell? How will you finance it?’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·4 Sept 2026
The Cuban government, in the midst of the worst crisis in its history, is now admitting something it struggled for decades to accept: that if anyone can save the country, it is Cubans themselves.
The summer Spain’s Queen Sofía could have married Harald of Norway
El País Englishby Martín Bianchi Tasso·3 Sept 2026
In the summer of 1954, Queen Frederica of Greece organized an 11-day cruise through the Aegean Sea for around a hundred European princes and princesses.
Judge blocks Trump’s new attempt to limit birthright citizenship in the US
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·3 Sept 2026
Donald Trump’s latest effort to limit the right to birthright citizenship has been blocked. A federal judge in Maryland has temporarily halted the administration’s new attempt to deny U.S.
‘Despite being an action star, he is very insecure and shy’: Jean-Claude Van Damme’s downfalls and comebacks
El País Englishby Jaime Lorite Chinchón·3 Sept 2026
Ciudad Real Airport was one of the great fiascos of Spain’s property bubble era, a ghost airport that cost up to €1 billion ($1.16 billion) and was eventually auctioned off for a fraction of that...
A traveling circus for the horror of Gaza
El País Englishby Antonio Pita·3 Sept 2026
In 2018, after spending his adolescence in an Israeli-blockaded Gaza watching videos online about circus activities abroad, Muhammad Jader decided to bring what he had learned to his community.
The most detailed brain wiring diagram yet: How 166,000 neurons govern the fruit fly’s behavior
El País Englishby Ana Lozano del Campo·3 Sept 2026
For years, neuroscience has sought to understand what the mind is and where human behavior comes from.
Inside the US-Venezuela oil agreements: Big promises, little clarity
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·3 Sept 2026
The oil agreement announced between the United States and Venezuela has been touted with great fanfare for the many benefits it is supposedly set to deliver.
Journalism takes center stage in Venice with George Clooney, Rupert Murdoch and Gerda Taro
El País Englishby Elsa Fernández-Santos López·3 Sept 2026
George Clooney experienced his finest moment at the Venice Film Festival in 2005. It came thanks to his second film as a director, Good Night, and Good Luck, a restrained tribute to Edward R.
Average wages no longer buy a standard-size home in most of Europe
El País Englishby Denisse López·3 Sept 2026
The old maxim that steady employment and an average salary would guarantee you access to a decent home for starting a family is now faltering under the weight of a runaway housing market.
Killing of musician, his pregnant wife and their three-year-old daughter shakes Mexico
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·3 Sept 2026
A massacre carried out on Tuesday afternoon in Atizapán, in the State of Mexico near the capital, has left four people dead, including two women—one of them pregnant—and a three-year-old child.
Back to school in crisis-hit Cuba: families contend with shortage of uniforms, teachers and basic equipment
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·3 Sept 2026
His Revolution had not yet reached its first year and Fidel Castro, wearing the same military uniform he would use for the rest of his life, spoke to the crowds on September 14, 1959: “Do you think...
Death of young Haitian migrant highlights psychological harm of ICE’s ankle monitors
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·3 Sept 2026
This coming Friday the residents of Springfield, Ohio, are being called to a vigil to remember Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian man whom his family says died by suicide on Monday after...
Investment banks cool Trump’s optimism: Venezuelan oil will not lower prices
El País Englishby Carlos Méndez·3 Sept 2026
Investment banks are tempering the White House’s enthusiasm over the oil deal with Venezuela. UBS warns that crude output will take years to recover and will have limited short-term impact on...
Thousands of protesters march in Spain over Ceuta migrant crisis
El País Englishby Elsa García de Blas,EL PAÍS·3 Sept 2026
Tens of thousands of people marched across Spain on Wednesday to show support for the exclave city of Ceuta, a small Spanish territory located in North Africa where a crisis has been unfolding...
Why middle-aged men are buying coffee machines instead of convertibles: ‘These aren’t indulgences, they’re experiences’
El País Englishby Marita Alonso·2 Sept 2026
The midlife crisis has no proven biological basis and, in fact, some experts suggest it may be the one major crisis millennials manage to avoid.
Doris Salcedo, the artist who melted the FARC’s weapons: ‘Goya strips war of its heroic character’
El País Englishby Santiago Torrado·2 Sept 2026
Colombia continues to suffer the horrors of its many forms of violence. Nearly 10 years after the peace agreement with Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the country is entering a new...
Homeland Security secretary says ICE could be at polling places during November elections
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·2 Sept 2026
For months, Donald Trump’s administration has sought to dispel concerns about a possible presence of immigration agents at polling places during the November elections.
How DNA shapes who we are: More than 1,200 genetic variants help determine personality
El País Englishby Patricia Fernández de Lis·2 Sept 2026
Is a person’s character innate or acquired? Is biology or upbringing more important in shaping personality?
The disease behind most heart attacks starts building up in the arteries in early adulthood
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·2 Sept 2026
Cardiovascular disease does not appear suddenly. Heart attacks and strokes are the result of years of accumulated damage that causes neither pain nor obvious symptoms, which is why healthy eating...
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