The California ranch owned by the new CJNG leader, which the Trump administration is seeking to seize
Juan Carlos Valencia González, who took control of the cartel after El Mencho’s death, owns an estate in Hemet valued at nearly $700,000
Six months without El Mencho in Mexico
The death of the leader inaugurated the state’s offensive against the criminal group that operated for years with relative impunity
Marcelo Lucero’s killing returns to the spotlight 18 years later: ‘The violence is back, but now it comes from ICE agents’
Can US progressives deliver economic growth?
Rick McGahey
For politicians like Mamdani to succeed, redistribution alone is not enough
AI swarms turn on their creators: It’s the first incident that has made my stomach churn’
A recent series of unprecedented, coordinated security attacks has led experts to call for a moratorium
Charts that explain the rise of artificial intelligence
Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister and an artist exhibiting in Paris and New York
The leader of the European country has just unveiled an exhibition in Berlin featuring bronze sculptures created from 3D-printed designs
In the Spanish city of Valencia, fascist squads patrol the streets
The far-right political party España 2000 uses an NGO as cover to monitor neighborhoods that have large immigrant populations
Norway’s crown prince becomes King Haakon VIII amid family scandals: From Epstein ties to a shaman brother-in-law
The new monarch takes the throne as his wife, Mette-Marit, remains under scrutiny over her links to the convicted sex offender
ICE arrests at school bus stops spark fear as students return to class
Worries about immigration raids are contributing to a decline in Hispanic student enrollment
The women standing by Lindsay Clancy: ‘We need to understand what drove her to kill her children’
Together with social workers, psychologists and counselors, administrators at a Los Angeles center are drawing up a plan to protect and provide emotional support for students affected by immigration raids
Geographies of cruelty: The map of Mexico’s clandestine graves
The rise in disappearances and criminal violence, together with the growing efforts of citizen search groups, has transformed the pattern of discoveries across Mexico during the administrations of Calderón, Peña Nieto and López Obrador
Trump’s restrictions on mail-in voting stall in the courts
A new court ruling has put the decree, which would benefit the president in the midterms, on hold for two weeks
Despite criticism, ICE will deploy gloves that deliver electric shocks for its immigration enforcement operations
The agency awarded a $16.7 million contract to add the devices to its arsenal, while Democrats and civil organizations question their safety and oversight
ILO proposes dismissing 120 staff to offset part of the United States’ debt to the organization
Ella Rubin, the ‘Sterling Point’ star everyone is comparing to Julia Roberts
She has the face of a 1990s movie icon, a minimalist style that is beginning to attract the attention of major fashion houses and a career built over more than a decade of small roles and countless rejections
Fundación Chuwie: A sloth rescue center on the verge of shutting down in Venezuela
Diego Torres Pantin|Caracas
A married couple devotes themselves to helping these animals, which are threatened by road accidents and electrocutions. Since 2020, they have aided more than 1,000 individuals
Social networks face their ‘tobacco moment’: Key points of a historic agreement that will shape the future of platforms
The pact between Meta and 52 US attorneys general reduces the hours minors can use social media and aims to serve as a guide for the rest of the industry
Carl Wunsch: ‘The consequences of Trump are terrible’
China does not want its internet users to fall in love with an artificial intelligence
The desert’s ‘resurrection plant’ paving the way to fridge-free vaccines
Trump administration faces a major financial battle in the bond market
The Treasury is seeking unconventional ways to contain rising interest rates, with consequences for both Wall Street and ordinary Americans, as markets await Friday’s Jackson Hole gathering
Mexico falls behind in the new global oil map
Mexico watches US–Canada trade tension with uncertainty
After six months of war, Washington has failed to strangle Iran’s economy
‘The boundless ocean set into a rage’: Why we are still drawn to shipwrecks
From ‘The Odyssey’ to William Turner’s painting or disaster cinema, the sinking of a ship is a perfect existential metaphor. But such catastrophes do not belong only to the past or to literature: they remain tragically current in the migration drama
Samanta Schweblin, writer: ‘Paying attention is the greatest superpower’
The Argentine writer has built one of the most distinctive and unsettling bodies of work in Spanish-language literature
Inside Mattel, where the world’s most famous toys come to life: How the ‘Toy Story’ action figures are designed
Enrique Serna, author: ‘As a child, I had nightmares about being taken to the sacrificial stone’
The Mexican writer returns to historical fiction with a new novel that will be published this fall
‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer
Work & Lifestyle
Victoria Bodean, the mother with cerebral palsy showing the world how to overcome disability barriers
From endless scrolling to going back to an ex: Why we keep doing things we know aren’t good for us
From Capri to Biarritz, a photographic journey capturing the carefree life of the beach
Claude Nori
Tracing fictional crimes (and a very real one) through the streets of Paris
Celebrities, Movies & TV
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Julián Casanova, historian: ‘Goebbels needed to occupy countries to introduce propaganda. Elon Musk needs three minutes’
Peruvians trapped in Russia’s war by a job promise: ‘They’re taking us as cannon fodder’
Cuba was never ‘next’: The United States is betting on a slow suffocation of the Castro regime by 2029
One migrant raid in New Jersey, 46 lives destroyed: ‘My life is incomplete without my daughter’
EL PAÍS offers free Spanish lessons with Gymglish
Readers who sign up will receive a 15-day free trial of the online classes, which are adapted to a student’s specific needs
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