Sally Field, the actress who fought abuse and escaped her demons through acting
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·17d ago
Sally Field, 79, is a discreet, subtle person. It’s not that she’s delicate, or quiet. She’s a woman who, after 60 years in the entertainment industry, knows what to say, and how and when to say...
Major television networks pull out of presidential press pool following lawsuit filed against Trump by CNN, MS NOW, and ‘Politico’
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·17d ago
Washington-based media outlets CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico announced on Monday that they were filing a lawsuit against the Donald Trump administration in response to the decision —...
From Airbnb to stray cats: Trump’s childhood home in Queens sells for $2 million
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·17d ago
The Jamaica–179th Street subway stop in Queens is only about a 10-minute walk from Wareham Place. But an abyss separates the two places.
Ferraris, Porsches, 17 guns and a United Arab Emirates residency card: The search of Alejandro Betancourt’s mansion in Spain
El País Englishby Irene Dorta·17d ago
Alejandro Betancourt’s tentacles in Spain are long. The Venezuelan businessman who amassed a fortune after his country’s power crisis at the end of the 2010s has seen his wealth rise again after...
Human Rights Watch visits Venezuela after 18 years: ‘There is a kind of truce, but the state apparatus responsible for the abuses remains intact’
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer·17d ago
A team of directors and researchers from Human Rights Watch, made up of Federico Borello, Juan Papier, Juanita Goebertus, and Marina Rápido, spent last week in Caracas.
Howard Buffett, the farmer who will guard his father’s business empire
El País Englishby Patricia Vélez Santiago·17d ago
Warren Buffett outlined nearly 15 years ago the reasons why his son Howard would, when the time came, serve as the “guardian” of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.
Venezuelans self‑censor because of US power: ‘Now I don’t know whether I should fear the CIA’
El País Englishby María Martín·17d ago
The phrase is exaggerated, but it conveys a shared feeling: “I used to be afraid of the SEBIN [Bolivarian National Intelligence Service] and now I don’t know whether I should fear the CIA.” An...
Trump’s immigration policy is choking business: ‘There’s nobody to work’
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·17d ago
In recent months, the Donald Trump administration has been proudly releasing statistics on migrant arrests.
Iran and its allies threaten the global economy by controlling two key straits: Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy,Ignacio Fariza·17d ago
First came the bluster, seasoned with ignorance and the conviction that the U.S. military action in Venezuela could be replicated in Iran: those initial airstrikes coordinated with Israel ended, as...
Trump’s blow to White House correspondents: ‘a ban on the free press’
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy·17d ago
The sudden ban on covering the White House imposed by Donald Trump against several outlets he considers hostile to him —CNN and MS NOW (formerly, MSNBC) and the digital site Politico— has landed...
‘An incomplete happiness’: An activist wins his freedom after nearly two years of medical neglect at an ICE facility
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·17d ago
Colombian Julián Palacios Obregón spent 650 days in immigration detention in the United States. He was sick for most of that time.
ICE agent shoots and wounds Venezuelan migrant in Texas
El País Englishby EL PAÍS ,Patricia Clarembaux·17d ago
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday in Austin, Texas, prompting local authorities to demand an independent investigation into the incident.
Presley Gerber, son of Cindy Crawford, dies at 27
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·17d ago
Presley Gerber, a 27-year-old model, died on Sunday in Los Angeles, California. Gerber was the son of the famous 1990s model Cindy Crawford, who turned 60 in January, and the tequila and beer...
Dinosaur fossils, the latest obsession of the ultra-rich: ‘Some enjoy knowing only they can admire it’
El País Englishby María Victoria Ennis·18d ago
“Look, with this I can solve the origin of vipers,” a European collector snapped at Argentine paleontologist Federico Agnolín a few years ago.
Inside Mexico’s gay cowboy parties: Tequila, dancing and romance
El País Englishby Javier Antonio Fernández Pérez·18d ago
Every spring, hundreds of cowboys make a pilgrimage to cities across central and northern Mexico to take part in a very particular kind of cowboy convention.
The epic life of Schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder-turned-legend: ‘If he had been born in the US he would be president’
El País Englishby Jaime Lorite Chinchón·18d ago
No matter how skeptical we may be about the American dream, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal story strains the limits of credibility as much as any of his most over-the-top films.
Resistance to AI gathers strength
El País Englishby Andrea Rizzi·18d ago
The world is becoming increasingly aware of the dangers posed by the development of artificial intelligence (AI), ranging from the terrifying risk of human extinction to potential disruption of...
The Mormon church is expanding its real-estate empire across the United States: ‘They’re opportunists in a very calculated way’
El País Englishby Natalie Wong ,Ann Choi (Bloomberg)·18d ago
Just 20 minutes from Denver International Airport, plans are under way for an ambitious project on a stretch of empty land larger than Manhattan’s Central Park.
An inside look at the Kaisers, the clan leading the far right in Chile
El País Englishby Rocío Montes,Antonia Laborde·18d ago
In just two years, the National Libertarian Party has become the right-wing party with the most members in Chile, slightly exceeding 50,000.
From Opus Dei alumni to McKinsey consultants: The clans that run Spain’s biggest companies
El País Englishby Miguel Moreno Mendieta·18d ago
An invisible web of connections links the executives and board members of Spain’s largest companies.
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