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Anthropic suspends access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models due to the US veto of foreigners

Washington uses national security reasons to justify the restrictions

Jonathan Andic's defense minimizes his messages about “killing the father” and frames them in family therapy

The lawyers assure that the texts, included in the Prosecutor's Office's letter as evidence of their bad relationship, have "a positive tone" when placed in context.

Ione Belarra announces that she will lead Podemos' candidacy for the Community of Madrid

The leader of the party proposes to the militancy to take the step as Pablo Iglesias did in 2021

Mañueco keeps a good part of his councilors, changes areas to his controversial head of the Environment and Vox chooses technical profiles

Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones leaves the direction of the fires and goes to Industry. Vice President Carlos Pollán will assume Deregulation

Kennedy Center complies with court order to remove Donald Trump's name from its façade

Tens of thousands of people connect to the internet for hours to see live how workers remove the letters from the temple of music in Washington

Sarral, Huntington and the World Cup

In 1975 the Spanish team led by Kubala played a friendly in this town in Conca de Barberà. Now Albert Esteller aspires to also organize a match with the internationals to publicize the disease

Pickleball: Why Everyone Is Playing (And What You Need to Get Started)

Paddles, balls and other accessories to get started in this discipline that combines elements of different racket sports and that gains more followers every day.

The best-selling unisex booties on Amazon that you need for the beach, river or pool

From the beach to rivers or pools, this quick-drying shoe protects your feet and allows you to move safely without sacrificing comfort

10 items, 15 looks: the capsule wardrobe with which you will dress throughout June without complicating things

The formula that puts an end to “I don't know what to wear”: invest in basic, timeless pieces that are easy to combine with each other

AliExpress drops prices this weekend: discounts of up to 70% with shipping from Spain

A cordless vacuum cleaner, a smart watch, a ceiling fan and many other products have a special offer for a limited time

Wembanyama does not give up: “Everyone knows that we are going to achieve it”

San Antonio hosts the Knicks this Saturday in a game that could be decisive. If the New York team wins they will become NBA champions after 53 years

The last days of Alligator Alcatraz, the symbol of Trump's immigration offensive

The infamous alligator-ringed migrant center in Florida has been quietly being dismantled in anticipation of an imminent closure. A little more than a hundred detainees remain

Cuba rehearses its umpteenth economic opening on the brink of the abyss

The official plan, announced on Friday, does not advance state control of the economy in a context of energy crisis, fall in tourism and United States sanctions

The battle over the contested records leads Peru to a scenario of maximum uncertainty

The electoral body rejects the cancellation of 2,400 tables demanded by Roberto Sánchez due to non-payment of regulatory fees, while Fujimorism consolidates a minimal advantage

Can you beat our prediction? Play to predict the World Cup

At EL PAÍS we use a statistical model to predict the tournament. Here you can make your own predictions

The Pope against fierce capitalism and the heartless right

Christian democracy drank from the social doctrine of the Church, but now the ultras practice an anti-humanist ideology. Leo XIV reminded them that the immigrant is also the neighbor

Delphine Horvilleur, rabbi: “Jews have learned from history that they will never find peace”

This sharp criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu is threatened by those who distrust his Zionism and by those who confuse the demand for a protected territory with a nationalist and warmongering political stance.

Is Telecinco burning 'Survivors' and 'Temptation Island'? The response of audience data

The two star reality shows of the network have closed their most recent editions with their worst historical figures. Several factors explain these results.

I saw you on TV, I had you there

I am convinced that they will soon replace the hassle of managing 60 or 100,000 people, the controls, the police, the incidents, with AI images that will show irredeemable fans chanting their songs.

Cities modify the personality of animals: “Only the most daring survive”

An analysis of more than 80 investigations on the behavior of birds, mammals and insects maintains that populations that live in cities are bolder and more exploratory than their wild counterparts.

Sánchez makes the most of the image with a pro-immigration Pope amid pressure from scandals

The Government has participated with 14 ministers in a mass and the president offered an image of normality in the Canary Islands with the Pontiff

Cape Verde, Africa's democratic rarity

The archipelago is heading towards its fourth peaceful electoral alternation in 35 years thanks to a culture of consensus and a solid parliamentary regime

Patricia Catalá, expert in perinatal mental health: “Social networks have transformed how motherhood is lived and thought about”

The Psychology professor has been researching the impact of the digital environment on pregnancy and the postpartum for years, and warns that the platforms expose idealized and simplified models of parenting, favoring the appearance of guilt and frustration in mothers.

David Hockney, too big a splash

From the artist's springboard, we want to return to California with its false palm trees to confirm the feeling of laziness that he builds like no one else in the history of painting.

How good my friends are

I devoured the admirable book 'The Ball' in a hypnotic state and in some moments excited

Published an unpublished story by Edith Wharton in which she warned of the horrors of war more than a century ago

The unfinished story 'The Men Who Saved the World' shows the writer's vision of World War I who portrayed the New York upper class at the end of the 19th century

The glory among the coconut trees

Gauguin's work consists of about three hundred paintings, and today he is undoubtedly the most sought-after painter in the history of art.

Alice Kellen, the great phenomenon of Spanish youth literature who was born with a pseudonym on Amazon

The launch of the novel 'El club del olvido' coincides with the arrival on the big screen of 'Everything we were not' and the premiere in July of the series 'The map of desires'

Accidental death of satire

Mocking is easier, it has spread and amidst all the noise, hoax and confusion, humor with political value is going through a crisis of meaning. And it's not just Trump's fault.

Ghosts are never still

The Cabello/Carceller duo exhibits in Tenerife a rereading of history starring the lives of trans people and others expelled from the hegemonic narrative, who return to question its certainties

Arnold Schönberg, heart and brain

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko invite you to explore the various aesthetic avatars of the Austrian composer in an album exemplarily conceived and presented

The six books of the week

The critics of 'Babelia' review the new works by Joan Sales, Manuel Jabois, Marian Peyró, Joan-Carles Mèlich, Sophie Bessis and Marta González González

Spain doubles its organic production in a decade and reaches 3,250 million euros

The use of organic fertilizers reduces the exposure of this type of crops to the vagaries of the geopolitical situation and crises such as Hormuz.

Marcin Bosacki, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Poland: “Putin perceives divisions and chaos in NATO”

The Polish politician urges allies to redouble the response to hybrid threats and rejects the European initiative to mediate with Moscow

In the end they will only find sand: Gaza reconstruction prolongs devastation

Israel and the United States impose plans to rebuild Gaza that have the implicit objective of destroying Palestinian life. This is what Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture, a group that denounces human rights violations, maintains. The genocide, he maintains, continues through colonizing urbanism

The drama of a Palestinian child with visual disabilities that symbolizes the tragedy in Gaza: “I want to see how other children do”

The video of little Ayoub Junaid, seven years old, has accumulated more than 50 million views. Although he has already received new glasses, he needs an operation, but cannot receive adequate medical treatment in Gaza

The differences between Putin and his central bank, a new sign of the deterioration of the Russian economy

The Russian leader demands lower rates in a meeting on monetary policy in which the governor of the regulatory body, whose whereabouts is unknown, did not participate

Josep Pedrals: “When I became gay in the real world, I was angry and stopped being a happy poet”

L'escriptor i rapsode publishes 'Poeticismes', a conversation adrift by a reader who reflects on poetic mechanisms

David France, HIV chronicler: “AIDS produced an enormous boost to LGTBIQ+ activism”

The journalist, who lived and covered the pandemic in the United States, publishes an essay in Spanish about the virus, the search for treatments and the fight against a homophobic society that looked the other way

Leo XIV borders LGTBIQ+ Catholics, who in the Church still carry the stigma of sinners

The Pope avoids references to the collective, whose discrimination is embedded in the Catechism. “With the excuse that we have to look for what unites us, the issue has been postponed,” laments Niurka Gibaja, theologian and trans woman.

Madrid orders not to notify homeless people that they are going to throw away their belongings when the cleaning protocol is activated

The Department of Social Affairs of Madrid gave the directive not to notify people who sleep on the street in advance, as has happened until now.

Claudia Flores, president of the UN Working Group on Discrimination: “It is scary that it ends up seeming normal for the Taliban to be received in Brussels”

The expert urges the world to react and recognize that Afghan women are victims of gender apartheid and regrets that some governments see women's rights and equality as a threat or bargaining chip

Pregnancy after a heart transplant is possible: “They told me that I should be dead and that I would not be able to have children”

A pioneering study in Spain shows that with good follow-up, pregnancy is possible and that, if there are complications, they are minimal

A respect for the humanities

Readers write about Selectivity, disease research, the papal visit and the Global South

Praying and twerking are the same, for God's sake!

In a world built of threats, both the Pope and Bad Bunny achieve the communion we lack

Acts and autos-da-fe

Ethical and aesthetic traces have revealed to me forms of spirituality compatible with secularism and rationalism that I have never renounced.

Riki Blanco: the stadium battle

Vignette from June 13, 2026

How to respond to a Martian

The International Academy of Astronautics updates its statement of principles on the conduct to be followed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Look out

Let us not fall into the provincialism of thinking that our language, be it Spanish or Catalan, is the only legitimate measure of all things

Armenia bets on Europe

Vladimir Putin suffers another electoral setback in a country in the former area of ​​Soviet influence