The ordeal of Miami’s migrant mega-hearings: ‘If I don’t make it, they’ll issue a deportation order’
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·24d ago
Roxana Valladares was at Homestead Hospital, southwest of Miami, with her six-year-old son when she started packing in the middle of the night.
Nine hours in front of a computer: An 11-year-old waits his turn in a mass hearing for migrant minors
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·24d ago
José waited nine hours in front of a computer for his virtual hearing before an immigration judge. He is 11 years old, and there were 25 children on the screen alongside him.
Ten styles of the new Democrats
El País Englishby Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí·24d ago
A year ago, the Democratic Party was in one of the worst moments in its history. The organization was still associated with the poor image of former president Joe Biden and lacked a distinctive...
How Trump’s pharmaceutical plan threatens Europe: Higher drug prices and delays in new therapies
El País Englishby Oriol Güell Domínguez·24d ago
Donald Trump’s demand that drugmakers raise medicine prices in Europe so they can be lowered in the United States is now more than just another bombastic demand from the president of the world’s...
Trump is running out of time to bring down gasoline prices before the midterms
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy,Ignacio Fariza·24d ago
U.S. President Donald Trump has spent months trying to find a way out of a trap of his own making.
United States stalls Spanish investigation into Alejandro Betancourt, its new oil czar in Venezuela
El País Englishby Irene Dorta,María Martín·25d ago
The hand of the United States has resurfaced in the legal proceedings facing Alejandro Betancourt. This time in Spain.
People are using AI for personal questions almost twice as often as for work-related queries
El País Englishby Raquel Cortés Pascual·26d ago
Around 38% of people living in Spain regularly use generative artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to a survey on information and communication technologies in households, conducted by...
Prosper and Martine Assouline, editors: ‘Our next book will weigh 176 pounds, cost €20,000 and sell out in two minutes’
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·26d ago
It all began with love at first sight. Prosper Assouline, who comes from a family of Moroccan-Jewish entrepreneurs, and his wife Martine, whose lineage traces back to the court of Louis XIV, fell...
Marc Orriols, Egyptologist: ‘Hollywood has done great damage to our perception of sex in Ancient Egypt’
El País Englishby Jacinto Antón·26d ago
Exactly 20 years ago, a young Marc Orriols surprised attendees at the III Ibero-American Congress of Egyptology held in La Laguna, Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands, with a paper on the sexual...
And he never came back’: In El Salvador, mothers desperately search for the disappeared
El País Englishby Bryan Avelar·26d ago
Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent the last six hours answering calls at his computer.
Russia uses arrests and coercion to send more recruits to the front in Ukraine
El País Englishby Javier González Cuesta·26d ago
Russian authorities have been paying people to enlist in the army, and now they are also paying them to recruit others.
Wanted: Oil tankers at any cost as tensions in the Gulf trigger a global scramble
El País Englishby Nuria Salobral·26d ago
The war in Iran is reshaping global shipping, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery that until March carried 20% of the world’s hydrocarbon supply, forces the industry into...
The Falklands: The open wound that unites Argentines
El País Englishby Mar Centenera·26d ago
The Argentine collective joy after winning the Qatar World Cup in 2022 was played out to a soundtrack that began like this: “In Argentina I was born, land of Diego and Lionel, of the lads from the...
Zohran Mamdani: ‘Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t afford their basic needs’
El País Englishby Paola Nagovitch,Luis Doncel·26d ago
“All that’s standing between me and my vacation is you guys,” Zohran Kwame Mamdani jokes as he welcomes EL PAÍS on a Friday afternoon.
What happens to people who start wildfires? From two years in prison for a barbecue that caused 11 deaths to 10 years for an arsonist
El País Englishby Esther Sánchez García·27d ago
Penalties for those who start wildfires are severe. The Spanish Criminal Code provides for sentences of between 10 and 20 years in prison when a fire endangers people’s lives or physical safety.
The Red Bull generation: How energy drinks became the fuel for a fast-paced society
El País Englishby Enrique Alpañés·27d ago
Energy drinks aren’t consumed for pleasure. They aren’t served in a glass with ice and a straw, nor are they sipped with blissful leisure.
Spain’s purebred horse business leaps past the $8.6 billion mark
El País Englishby Miguel Ángel García Vega·27d ago
In the 16th century, Lorenzo de Medici admired both Leonardo Da Vinci and his Spanish stable groom — who, on foot, could stop a galloping horse with a single hand.
Alexia Putellas: ‘I would have loved for previous generations, the real pioneers, to have experienced what I’ve experienced’
El País Englishby Sofía Ruiz de Velasco·27d ago
Alexia Putellas, 32, is left-footed, though not entirely. Alexia has what is known as cross-dominance: she’s left-footed but right-handed.
Carmody Grey, the philosopher who said no to Anthropic: ‘We are becoming lonelier and less intelligent’
El País Englishby jordi perez·27d ago
Anthropic contacted theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey, a 43-year-old professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
John Ternus, the hardware man who will steer Apple in the AI era
El País Englishby Daniel Soufi·27d ago
John Ternus’s salary as Apple’s new chief executive will be $3 million a year, plus a $55 million stock package.
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