Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran in UN speech with an electoral slant
The US president says the war will end after the midterms, a new timeline for a conflict now stretching into seven months despite promises it would be short
International cuts to development aid foreshadow profound changes to the system
Leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly face a humanitarian polycrisis
Mexico joins Latin American crackdown on cellphones in schools
Neither US intervention nor Communist stagnation: Harvard’s proposed plan for Cuba
Darth Vader alongside Picasso and Banksy: George Lucas’s ambitious museum opens in LA
With more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space and a thousand works of art where the classics and pop art mix unabashedly, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has become a new attraction in California
Vladimir Putin militarizes the Russian parliament
The Russian president’s party, United Russia, has set aside dozens of seats for veterans. The Communist Party supports him despite denouncing electoral fraud
You fear it, I love it: the Trump–Xi summit will address AI with opposite mindsets
Most Chinese citizens find this technology exciting, while more than half of Americans fear it will destroy humanity
The unexpected gift from Donald Trump that is benefiting the big oil companies
The conflict unleashed by the United States in the Middle East is causing ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies and BP to post historic profits
Ferraris, Porsches, 17 guns and a UAE residency card: The search of Alejandro Betancourt’s mansion in Spain
The Venezuelan billionaire and Trump administration oil man owns a mansion and two apartments in exclusive Madrid districts that police searched over allegations of money laundering
‘An incomplete happiness’: Activist wins his freedom after nearly two years of medical neglect at an ICE facility
Colombian Julián Palacios contracted a bacterial infection during his detention of more than 600 days. Now, free, he seeks medical care
From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy
Fernando Albero|Madrid
Data collected by apps and social networks have become an intelligence source for militaries around the world
Canadians welcome move toward EU with pleasure and caution: ‘Something enormous is underway’
Forty-one percent of Canadians consider the US an enemy country and 48% have an unfavorable opinion of Americans, according to recent polls
‘VIPs have become regular clients. There’s no eccentricity anymore’: The return of Manumission, the wild party that revolutionized Ibiza
Countless celebrities spent many memorable nights (that often stretched into days) there in the 1990s. For one weekend, the event is making a comeback
From Airbnb to stray cats: Trump’s childhood home in Queens sells for $2 million
The New York house where the US president lived until the age of four was once rented out, complete with Trump merchandising, and later fell into disrepair. Now an anonymous family has bought it
A sheriff’s office, saloon, and gallows: Sergio Leone’s set in Almería goes up for sale
The family that owns the legendary Rancho Leone, where ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ was filmed and Pedro Almodóvar shot a film in 2023, is offering it for €1.6 million
Dinosaur fossils, the latest obsession of the ultra-rich: ‘Some enjoy knowing only they can admire it’
María Victoria Ennis|Buenos Aires
Paleontological pieces are fetching millions alongside works of art, a trend experts worry will hamper research
Global warming slowly brought about the catastrophic collapse of the Nepalese glacier
Are we all going to die or is it just theatrics? The arguments against an AI apocalypse
Mice with millions of human neurons in their brains bring scientists closer to understanding mental disorders
Trump’s immigration policy is choking business: ‘There’s nobody to work’
Activists and lawmakers say Americans are feeling the effects of the ‘ICE tax’: higher prices for goods and services caused by a labor shortage
$150 for an oil barrel, the new extreme scenario following closure of key Saudi pipeline
Europe does not want to depend on foreign technology in the new digital order
From Opus Dei alumni to McKinsey consultants: The clans that run Spain’s biggest companies
Douglas Stuart, author: ‘If you’ve ever known poverty, you never forget it’
The writer, who has published a new novel after the success of ‘Shuggie Bain,’ doesn’t believe that the US will improve after Trump’s departure. ‘He has already sown the seeds of hatred,’ he says
The Azcatitlan Codex returns to Mexico after nearly two centuries
France is loaning the New Spain-era manuscript that chronicles the founding, splendor, and fall of Tenochtitlan
The ‘dangerous woman’ Virginia Woolf fell in love with
How to navigate William S. Burroughs in the 21st century
The most controversial and cryptic of the Beat writers, the author was an unrepentant, legendary junkie (and, allegedly, an accidental killer). Today, there is renewed interest in his books
Sally Field, the actress who fought abuse and escaped her demons through acting
Work & Lifestyle
Claire-Louise Bennett: 'Difference, chance and risk should be at the heart of the experience of love'
Dining outdoors in Spain: From popular custom to neighborhood protest against mass tourism
The Red Bull generation: How energy drinks became the fuel for a fast-paced society
Patrick Baty, the ‘paint detective’ who has traced the hues of the past for Windsor Castle and 10 Downing Street
Celebrities, Movies & TV
Céline Dion: The looks that became her armor against illness and vulnerability
Lidia A. Costa
Andrew Scott, the expert in tortured characters: ‘I join projects because of the script’
The epic life of Schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder-turned-legend: ‘If he had been born in the US he would be president’
From Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke to Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup: 31 Hollywood couples who fell in love on set
Our selection
Zohran Mamdani: ‘Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t afford their basic needs’
The Mormon church is expanding its real-estate empire across the United States: ‘They’re opportunists in a very calculated way’
Natalie Wong / Ann Choi (Bloomberg)
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
Miami’s fairy godmother for undocumented domestic workers
Antoni Belchi|Miami
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