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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s widow and parents are expected this week in a Utah court where prosecutors seeking the death penalty will argue that the man charged with killing the conservative activist should stand trial for murder. The five-day preliminary hearing that starts Monday will be the first time members of Kirk’s family are in the Utah courtroom with defendant Tyler Robinson. The hearing will be livestreamed. Robinson turned himself in after the shooting. Prosecutors allege that he also sent a text message confession to his partner and left a note saying he had an opportunity to…

Luis Roger speaks quietly but clearly. He does not complain about the heat in Madrid because he says that he is used to the high temperatures in Houston, Texas where he has lived since 2012 and where he has two restaurants: the Michelin-starred BCN Taste & Tradition, and the more informal MAD – both names are inspired by the airports of Barcelona and Madrid. Born in Barcelona, Luis Roger, 50, is visiting Spain, where he has come to prepare several dishes to feature on the menu of Madrid’s Cinco Jotas restaurant. At the top of his game, his success in…

Jaime Martínez Valderrama (Madrid, 1973) lleva más de veinte años estudiando la desertificación. Es científico titular de la Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), ingeniero agrónomo y coautor, junto a otros diecinueve científicos, del artículo publicado en Nature que pide “doblegar la curva” de la degradación de la tierra a escala global. Vive en Almería desde 2008 y ha participado esta semana en el curso ‘Geopolítica y los retos del espacio mediterráneo’, organizado por la Universidad de Murcia (UMU) y celebrado en Mazarrón. En esta entrevista repasa qué es realmente la desertificación, por qué España —y muy especialmente la Región…

Upon waking up, Taras (a pseudonym to protect his identity) was overjoyed to see some of Russia’s most heavily-fortified areas ablaze. His ambition to defend Ukraine has gone from being a dream to becoming a reality in recent days. “It’s maybe the best feeling ever. Seeing that result is my greatest reward,” he stated during an interview with EL PAÍS in Kyiv. Taras, the head of a local defense company, has spent months with his colleagues developing and testing one of the weapons currently being used to strike Russian strongholds, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.The Bars-SM missile-drone program, developed…

When the fog is thick — and these days it is — that is when it is most useful to listen to the people who really know. David Albright, 74, is among them: trained as a physicist, he was an inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a United Nations body, in 1990s Iraq, and he knows the Iran case in great detail. Today he leads the Institute for Science and International Security, based in Washington and which he founded more than three decades ago; he spends long periods in Münster, Germany, from where he spoke to EL PAÍS…

It’s hard to describe Emily Wood. Being unclassifiable is part of her essence, and that makes the 29-year-old stand out from other makeup artists who populate social media with tutorials on how to apply the products they promote. In fact, she doesn’t even define herself as a makeup artist. “Face decorator” reads her bios on Instagram and TikTok, where she is followed by a total of nearly 310,000 people. “When I started to do makeup seven years ago, it was seen as kind of insignificant, like, ‘I am stuck and I don’t know what to do. I’m not smart enough…

The visit is arranged beforehand. There is little lingering at the door: come in, come in, don’t stand out there. The businessman sits down in a chair and offers the sofa. “Water?” He brings two bottles.“Three weeks ago, they killed a woman right next door. It was in the morning,” he says. A woman who was there wondered why the ambulance had not arrived. “And another woman who was with her said, ‘No, they’re waiting for her to die’… They’ve killed paramedics too, just for treating victims,” explains the businessman, who gives neither his name, nor the nature of his…

Europe is undergoing its largest rearmament since the end of the Cold War. Spurred by the war in Ukraine, the threat from Russia, as well as growing uncertainty about the United States’ long-term commitment to the continent’s defense, NATO’s European members are facing a historic shift. Consequently, they’re boosting their defense budgets to record levels and reshaping the entire continent’s security architecture. They’re preparing to embrace the paradigm transition toward a more European-centered alliance and are moving to fill the gaps that will be left by the troop cuts on the continent, which have been announced by Washington. U.S. President…

John F. Kennedy defined the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” In the book published posthumously in 1964 under that title, JFK celebrated the historical and cultural contribution of successive waves of immigration as the driving force behind the nation’s strength. This year, as the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the question is whether that spirit still remains in the United States. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, the Republican president has signed more than 180 executive orders aimed at limiting the arrival of new migrants and expelling…