The battle for lithium: US and China fight over Argentina’s white gold (english.elpais.com)
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The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers (english.elpais.com)
The country’s aging population and low fertility rate jeopardizes the solvency of Social Security and the Medicare program, according to a new study by Brookings...
Buying a home in the US has never been this hard (english.elpais.com)
Prices are soaring and the option to buy is receding for millions of tenants nailed by rising rents...
The Earth’s core is slowing down (english.elpais.com)
More than half of US Latinos worry about being able to pay rent or mortgage each month (english.elpais.com)
Conflicts reach highest peak globally since World War II (english.elpais.com)
One in five children on the planet is now overweight or obese. (english.elpais.com)
Russian attacks on power grid provoke the worst energy crisis of the war in Ukraine (english.elpais.com)
Air strikes have left the country with less than half of its electricity generation capacity, leading to daily power outages of 10 hours or more, a situation experts say will deteriorate further ahead of winter...
The Dreamers of a decade ago are today teachers, nurses, journalists, lawyers — but still lack US citizenship (english.elpais.com)
The DREAM Act was introduced in Congress in August 2001, and has still not been approved. This law would allow 3.5 million undocumented young people who arrived in America as minors to regularize their situation...
Today, it’s all about Spanglish, the ‘language’ posing a threat to Anglocentrism in the United States (english.elpais.com)
The mix of Spanish and English is the world’s fastest growing linguistic hybrid. Experts calculate that it is spoken by 50 million people...
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico (english.elpais.com)
A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations...
The EU searches for the path to become a geopolitical power (english.elpais.com)
The 27 member states have lately taken significant steps on military and economic security matters, but the nature of the organization and internal discrepancies continue to slow down the push for a more ambitious union...
Amal Clooney, a key figure in the request for Netanyahu’s arrest by the International Criminal Court (english.elpais.com)
Amal Clooney, a key figure in the request for Netanyahu’s arrest by the International Criminal Court (english.elpais.com)
Argentina opposition questions Milei’s use of public funds to pay for trips abroad (english.elpais.com)
Some lawmakers have requested details about the president’s visits to the US, Switzerland, Israel, Italy and Spain, which they say were more private than public in nature as he did not meet with government officials...
Two towns held hostage by drug traffickers on the southern border of Mexico: checkpoints, murders and control over phone service and food (english.elpais.com)
When consulted by EL PAÍS, activists, members of the Federal Police and local journalists confirm that it’s impossible to enter or leave Frontera Comalapa or Chicomuselo...
Don't forget to subscribe (english.elpais.com)
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
Gladys orcas sink another sailboat in the Strait of Gibraltar: ‘They don’t go like a battering ram’ (english.elpais.com)
The conflict between Ecuador and Mexico brings new uncertainty to migrants crossing into the US (english.elpais.com)
Human rights lawyers wonder who will issue vital documents now that Ecuador has closed its diplomatic missions on Mexican territory in protest over last month’s assault on the embassy in Quito...
Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon (english.elpais.com)
The risky task of investigating corruption in wartime Ukraine (english.elpais.com)
The Ukrainian branch of the NGO Transparency International issued a statement on January 17 warning that ‘attacks on journalists are becoming systematic’...
Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants (english.elpais.com)
Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants (english.elpais.com)
Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to...
Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ (english.elpais.com)
