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At the White House, the Oscar-winning actor asked lawmakers to view gun control as a nonpartisan issue and admit the country has a ‘life preservation problem’

Sofía Heinonen, head of the Rewilding Argentina Foundation, says it took 15 years to get people to support the comeback of the largest land predator on the continent

With several countries threatening to boycott the event over its guest list, doubts have been raised about whether the meeting will be able to reach any meaningful agreement on illegal immigration

The latest incident, in which a man killed his doctor and three others before committing suicide, is the 233rd so far on what is setting out to be a record year for mass shootings

Authorities have reported at least 27 infections. Efforts to trace the disease point to the consumption of organic fruits from the Michoacán-based company FreshKampo

The Spanish foreign minister will attend the Summit of the Americas in LA and the pledge is expected to provide a political boost to the Biden administration

Local officials reported that the shooter is dead, without specifying the causes

The massacre perpetrated by the 18-year-old in Uvalde has once again put a spotlight on the lax gun regulations in the southern US state

Using testimony from witnesses and authorities, EL PAÍS retraced the events of the Texas school shooting that ended with 19 students and two teachers dead

This is what is known so far about the victims killed by Salvador Ramos: from the eight-year-old baseball fan to the 46-year-old teacher who was a mother to four

Before carrying out the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde, the 18-year-old student argued with his grandmother and shot her

After each massacre like the one in Uvalde, Texas, the need to change legislation is revisited, but no solution is ever achieved

In the wake of Tuesday’s tragic massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, the US president has called for tougher controls on the sale and use of firearms

Survivors, families of victims, parents and communities have demanded action on gun violence for years, but they have gone unheard once again

The Uvalde police shot the suspected attacker, an 18-year-old who burst into Robb Elementary School with a handgun and a rifle

The easing of sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba has not helped smooth preparations for the Summit of the Americas, which is becoming a diplomatic nightmare

EL PAÍS reconstructs the psychological and physical journey that took the 18-year-old from an idyllic suburb in Conklin to a supermarket in a Black neighborhood, 200 miles away, where he murdered 10 people

Legislation prohibits pregnancy terminations in almost all its cases and encourages private citizens to bring lawsuits against those who practice it

The relatives of those murdered by the white supremacist Payton Gendron told EL PAÍS that they learned of the tragedy from the video that he live-streamed on social networks

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended his decision to skip the event if Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are not invited, but says this doesn’t jeopardize Mexico’s relationship with its northern neighbor

Intelligence official shared declassified videos but said growing database could be due to more ‘airborne clutter,’ better detection technology and less stigma for pilots

A report by the Tax Justice Network shows backsliding on transparency and international cooperation. The UK would top the list if its overseas territories were included

The US government is reversing some of Donald Trump’s harshest measures towards the island

Although it is difficult to draw conclusions about the wealth of the US president and his second-in-command, based on financial disclosure reports, the latter has more bank accounts and has made more from royalties

The US government has announced additional steps to tackle the shortages, which have forced thousands of parents to travel miles in search of stock

An official investigation calculates that “thousands or tens of thousands” of students died at these federally-run institutions between 1819 and 1969