Peter Singer, philosopher: ‘People still think the animals we eat live out in the fields, outdoors’
The Australian thinker is a leading voice in animal rights and a pioneer of effective altruism, the idea of helping others in ways that achieve the greatest possible impact. In his latest book, he ret...
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Kimi K3, the Chinese AI that has put Silicon Valley on alert
The new model, the world’s largest open-source model, puts China back in the race to lead advances in this technology
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ICE’s corpses and the search for answers: ‘Let the truth come out. My son was killed by the guard’
Denny Adán González died in April at the Stewart Detention Center, two days after an argument with a facility officer. His family is seeking justice for the Cuban national, who is one more among the 5...
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From being unemployed to hunting migrants in South Africa: The movement that has turned foreigners into scapegoats
A xenophobic wave, emerging in townships and working-class neighborhoods, has placed immigration at the center of political debate
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Fire Island, the ‘hottest’ beach in the world: 100 years of art, parties and wild sex
An hour and a half from New York, the island has been a creative haven and playground for the LGBTQ+ community for an entire century. A new book explores its history and influence on artists such as A...
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The castle, the cable car and the Nazis: Returning to Schlöss Adler and ‘Where Eagles Dare’
An enthusiastic and hugely entertaining book by Geoff Dyer invites a reappraisal of the iconic war film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and the novel by Alistair MacLean
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Fatboy Slim and his disperse dance floor memories: ‘I had to Google myself so many times to check if something happened’
The British artist, a pioneer of the 1990s and author of some of electronica’s biggest anthems of the last decades, turned club culture into a mass phenomenon
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The protest that broke the silence in Cuba: ‘It changed my whole life’
Five years after the unprecedented mass demonstrations, many Cubans remain behind bars while others have been forced into exile
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Pierpaolo Piccioli, Balenciaga’s creative director: ‘I don’t want to revive the house’s archives; I want to revive its values’
To mark their first collaboration, Pierpaolo Piccioli and Manolo Blahnik speak to EL PAÍS about Cristóbal Balenciaga’s legacy, the liberation of the body through clothing, the enduring value of crafts...
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Half a year of terror for Mexico’s press
Seven journalists have been murdered since January, adding to a series of direct attacks against local media outlets and reporters across the country. Arrests have been made in only one of the cases
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Zacamil, the Salvadoran neighborhood once terrorized by gang violence, is being transformed into an open-air museum
Back in the 1980s, during the armed conflict that gripped El Salvador, Zacamil was the site of massacres. But today, dozens of artists are restoring the historic neighborhood with murals. The project...
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Jamie Dimon, the most powerful banker in the world: ‘I know Europe doesn’t see the US as a friend, but it is’
The chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan cautions that stock markets are trading at elevated valuations amid a backdrop of multiple risks. ‘No one saw the 1974 crisis, the 1987 crash or th...
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‘We’re surviving’: raids deliver a heavy and lasting blow to Hispanic businesses in L.A.
In nine commercial corridors frequented by migrants in that city there were nearly $3.2 million in losses in 2025 due to Trump’s aggressive immigration offensive, a UCLA study reveals
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How people are deceiving the justice system with AI: ‘It’s an invisible fraud’
A handful of cases in Brazil reveal how lawyers are trying to influence judges’ decisions through technical manipulation
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Zendaya, the actress who defied the Disney child-star curse to become a global star
The actress has five major releases this year alone. She says she will then take a break from a career she has built through risk-taking, savvy decision-making and the viral impact of her fashion choi...
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Extreme heat is scorching our health: increased irritability, poorer sleep and more cardiovascular problems
For every one-degree Celsius rise in ambient temperature, heat-related mortality increases by 35%. Living with this sweltering climate means that we have to take precautions
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Yuval Noah Harari: 'AI could be a great manipulative psychopath'
The Israeli writer and philosopher, author of 'Sapiens', warns about the powers, threats and challenges artificial intelligence poses to humanity
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An underwater window on World War I
Turkey seeks to preserve the shipwrecks from the Gallipoli battle as divers and researchers document their findings in the surrounding deep waters
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Controversy in Japan over Prime Minister Takaichi’s excessive work zeal: ‘Between 0 and 3 hours of sleep a day’
The head of government boasts on social media about her devotion to work and her lack of domestic skills. Internet users say it is a smokescreen to mask her low popularity ratings
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‘It is an absolute miracle that I am not dead’: the harrowing story of Samantha Morton, who is astonishing audiences with her performance in ‘The Odyssey’
The actress, a two-time Oscar nominee, wins over critics in her return to Hollywood as Circe in Christopher Nolan’s new movie. But behind one of the most admired performers of her generation is one of...
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Who are the ‘cockroaches’ behind the mass demonstrations in India, and what do they want?
What began as a rhetorical question from an Indian university student has resulted in brutally-suppressed protests on the streets of New Delhi
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Spain, a country in arms: How the Civil War was reported in US newsreels
On the 90th anniversary of the coup d’état against the Second Republic, EL PAÍS explores one of the largest audiovisual archives on the war and analyzes how the conflict was covered on the big screen
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One month after the earthquakes in Venezuela: ‘People aren’t going to leave their dead there’
With the death toll topping 5,300 and no official count of the missing, residents have taken the search for victims into their own hands as government machinery threatens to clear the ruins before man...
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Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes stress the urgency to redesignate TPS
One month after the tragedy, thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S. remain at risk of being deported to a devastated country
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Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’
One of the most influential thinkers on technology and feminism, she combines vision with irony, and her writing carries a distinctly punk edge. Faced with rising authoritarianism, she urges people to...
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Mexico has seen 14 mayors killed since Sheinbaum took office
The latest victim, Temoac Mayor Valentín Lavín Romero, was shot dead inside town hall. Oaxaca, with five cases, is the state hardest hit, followed by Michoacán with four
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Trump imposes chaotic trade system in his third round of tariffs
The United States has approved a sprawling and highly complex framework, complete with dozens of exemptions and country-specific rules covering sectors across more than 60 economies
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Which brand won the World Cup? Adidas moves ahead of Nike, but a coffee brand with Latin roots pulled off the big shock
With an estimated $5.2 billion at stake, Adidas reached the final on the shirts of Spain and Argentina and outpaced Nike on several commercial measures. Nevertheless, sales, public attention and purch...
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Javier Bardem addresses controversy around the World Cup final: ‘Milei is not all of the Argentine population’
The actor posts a video on Instagram to contextualize remarks he made in an interview that riled a lot of Argentines
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Spain moves forward with law granting citizenship to Sahrawis
The governing socialists tried to remove references to the ‘Sahrawi people’ from the bill to avoid irritating Morocco, which controls much of the former Spanish colony
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Don Omar, reggaeton pioneer: ‘What’s happening with Bad Bunny is the result of 30 years of urban music’
The Puerto Rican musician embraces the genre’s evolution, the new generation’s rejection of old masculine role models and many of his peers’ conversion to religion
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Dominique Lagorgette, philologist: ‘Solidarity among women is the only way to win more rights’
For over two decades, she has researched the evolution of the French language from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on verbal violence. Her book ‘Whore: History of a word and a stigma’ has...
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Community-focused journalism: The strategy for countering Donald Trump
At the largest Hispanic journalism conference, EL PAÍS hosts a conversation on the challenges facing the press in the U.S. with Jan Martínez Ahrens, Paola Ramos, Ginger Thompson, Mari Torres, and Alfr...
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Jan Martínez Ahrens: ‘Rarely has a free press been under greater threat’
The editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS emphasizes the newspaper’s commitment to the United States at the NAHJ annual conference: ‘We see the U.S. not as a market but as a journalistic responsibility’
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Jaime Alemán, the first man to travel to all 193 UN member states, the polar regions and outer space: ‘Tanzania is the place where God started the world’
The 72-year-old Panamanian is a former minister, lawyer and diplomat. And, right now, he is focused on a new adventure: telling his story. He has published a book and is producing a documentary about...
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Trump’s new conditions on funding the fight against HIV/AIDS require service restrictions
Study reveals that 77% of US partners had to adapt their work to Washington’s latest policies, with conditions surrounding care for the LGBTQ+ community and language censorship
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Food-related scams are flooding social media with hyper-realistic AI-generated videos
How this kind of content can compromise our health — not to mention, our wallet
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On the trail of a new dinosaur species in Spain’s premier wine region
The remains found in the village of Igea, in La Rioja, support the hypothesis that a large herbivorous specimen lived there 120 million years ago
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The oil magnate Gulbenkian’s lavish collection returns to its origins in Lisbon
The museum that houses the legacy of the man once considered the richest in the world reopens after a restoration that recovers the original 1969 vision
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‘Captchas’: Has Google got us training its AI without knowing it?
The service was created 15 years ago with a dual purpose: as a security filter against bots and as a generator of datasets to train artificial intelligence
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Floating health centers in the Brazilian Amazon: Medical care in the world’s largest tropical forest
While the health debate focuses on innovation, the Amazon experience invites us to look at another indicator: the effort of a team willing to sail for days to guarantee a basic right
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Spain, the first reigning champion to host a World Cup amid many uncertainties
The 2030 World Cup, which will be held on the Iberian Peninsula and in Morocco, still has many mysteries to resolve: the venues, the stadium for the final and how many teams will compete
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Federal judge blocks revocation of asylum applications and work permits for thousands of immigrants
The order provides temporary relief for thousands of asylum seekers and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries with valid work authorizations
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US and Mexico kick off USMCA’s first annual review
In their first face‑to‑face after Washington’s refusal to renew the trade agreement for another 16 years, the countries will address key sectors such as steel, automobiles and agriculture
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‘Gatsbying’: when people post content just to capture a specific someone’s interest
A new paid Instagram feature lets you search for specific users who have seen your stories. This is because many people post photos or messages with the sole intention that their online crush will see...
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The pool as therapy for people with severe neurological diseases: ‘I can do things without fear here’
A specialized water-based therapy unit in Madrid, Spain treats people with stroke, ALS and spinal cord injuries. The water gives them a respite from what burdens them the rest of the day: their own bo...
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Destruction, a runaway budget and a monumental set nobody noticed: ‘Les Amants du Pont-Neuf’, the classic film that almost wasn’t made
If the movie by French cinema darling Leos Carax had never completed production, it would be the stuff of legend today, just like ‘Dune’ or ‘I, Claudius’
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The museum that lets blind people touch 18th-century sculptures
Cappella Sansevero in Naples has developed a pioneering protocol to guarantee accessibility without compromising historical heritage
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Marco Rubio says Venezuela’s democratic transition will begin in early August
The US secretary of state reveals that Washington has already disbursed $180 million in earthquake aid
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Inside ‘Fallout’: When a video game’s science fiction becomes a tangible Hollywood blockbuster
A vast soundstage north of Los Angeles houses the series’ production, which seeks maximum realism in its sets, costumes, and even its monsters