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Texas House impeaches Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton

The historic vote came after a monthslong investigation into the three-term attorney general that resulted in 20 charges alleging sweeping abuses of power, including obstruction of justice, bribery and abuse of public trust

The IMF urges United States to seek definitive solution to debt ceiling crisis

Miguel Jiménez|Washington

President Biden says deal to avert debt default is 'very close,' while the deadline is now set for June 5

A rescued tiger is released into its new habitat for the first time, at the Ostok Sanctuary, in Mexico.Iñaki Malvido

Pablo Escobar’s hippos find a new home in the land of ‘El Chapo’

Micaela Varela|Mexico

The Ostok Sanctuary, a shelter in the Mexican state of Sinaloa for animals rescued from species trafficking, hopes to welcome 10 descendants of the infamous drug lord’s exotic pets. The goal of the relocation is to prevent them from being slaughtered in Colombia, where they reproduce uncontrollably and cause accidents

A recreation of the species 'Jakapil kaniukura,' the armored dinosaur who stood on two legs, which survived until the late-Cretaceous period, in the deserts of what is now South America and Africa.

The strange, armored dinosaurs that once populated South America

Maria Victoria Ennis|Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Stegosaurus’ earliest ancestors survived even after the Jurassic period and on a continent where their presence was previously unknown

SPECIAL SERIES FROM THE FRONT LINE. STAGE SEVEN

Mission: Capture Russian collaborators in Ukraine

Mónica Ceberio / Cristian Segura / Luis de Vega / Carlos Martínez

Ukrainian authorities now face the problem of detecting informers loyal to Moscow

Supporters of Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attend an election campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 27, 2023.

As Turkey heads to runoff presidential race, domestic issues loom large

A visitor wearing virtual reality glasses at the ZGC Forum in Beijing on Friday.

Amid tech war with US, China redoubles AI and microchip efforts

Guillermo Abril|Beijing

Pinochet hosts Kissinger in his office in Santiago, in a photograph dated 8 June 1976.

The private meeting between Kissinger and Pinochet in Chile: ‘We want to help’

Antonia Laborde|Santiago de Chile

A protest outside the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, in the city of La Paz, in mid-May of 2023

Victims who were sexually abused in Bolivia’s Jesuit schools: ‘We don’t matter to the politicians’

Julio Núñez|Cochabamba, Bolivia

Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d'Or for 'Anatomy of a Fall,' poses for photographers following the awards ceremony at the 76th international film festival Cannes, on May 27, 2023.

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins top prize at Cannes Film Festival

Justine Triet’s film starring Sandra Hüller is only the third movie directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or

The red carpet: Cannes’ great big bonfire of vanities

Lionel Messi helps PSG secure record 11th French league title, breaks European scoring record

Messi scored the opening goal, making it his 496th career league goal in Europe, breaking Cristiano Ronaldo’s scoring record for Europe’s top five leagues

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visit the ranch belonging to President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in Santa Barbara, California, in March of 1983.

FBI reveals death threat against Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the US in 1983

Rafa de Miguel|London

Coping, emotional labor, ‘gaslighting’: Why do we talk as if we were psychologists?

Karelia Vázquez

In a more or less conscious way, words that were previously reserved for psychology and psychiatry have been incorporated into everyday vocabulary

Neo-Mudéjar Barcelona, a hidden pearl among modernisms

Jordi Corominas i Julián

Why there are companies that do better in crises than in normal times

Joaquín Estefanía

Technology, energy and financial corporations have become the elite within the elite

Arctic ground squirrels hibernate at temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), which they compensate by generating heat. In the image, one of the specimens studied in northern Alaska.

Climate change is disrupting hibernation: Female arctic squirrels are shortening it, but males are not

Miguel Ángel Criado

The warmer winters of recent decades are altering a sophisticated survival strategy shaped by millions of years of evolution

Kate Crawford: ‘We need to have a much more comprehensive form of AI governance’

Ana Vidal Egea

Considered one of the most respected researchers in the industry, the Australian expert warns about the political and social implications of the misuse of advanced technology

Sam Altman: billionaire ChatGPT creator, startup guru and prohet of the apcalypse?

An Emberá woman at city hall in Medellin, Colombia, in 2022.

Working with artisans or cultural exploitation? Aesthetic racism on the catwalk

Angélica Gallón

A controversial fashion show in Colombia, in which two Emberá Chamí indigenous women were placed in the middle of a runway, has sparked an interesting debate in a country where artisan collections and fashion have been linked for decades

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as seen on the far side of the Dnipro River from Ostriv, has been under Moscow's control since March 2022.

STAGE SIX

Life under the shadow of Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia

Residents lining up for humanitarian aid in Konstantynivka.

STAGE FIVE

Zoom classes between bombardments at the gates of Bakhmut

Members of the 1st company of the 63rd Infantry Brigade on the Liman front in the Donetsk region.

STAGE FOUR

Video games, tea and drones on the front lines

Serhii and Olga Portianov's house in the village of Kamianka was occupied by Russian troops for months.

STAGE THREE

A wedding anniversary on the highway of horror

A couple walk past a bombed-out house in Kupiansk.

STAGE TWO

Ukrainians track Russian missiles on Telegram between beers and snacks

STAGE ONE

Ukraine: A journey to the front that has the world on edge

A composition of the Van Gogh works exhibited in Amsterdam (above) and New York (below).

Van Gogh: The compulsive painter who died among his cypress trees

Isabel Ferrer / María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo|Amsterdam / New York

Two of the world’s most important museums have organized exhibits that depict the artist’s final productive burst in which he painted 124 works; many of them reflected his obsession with cypress trees

These are the cell phone models that changed the world.

Mobile archaeology: From the brick to the iPhone, these are the phones that shaped our lives

Margaryta Yakovenko

Between 1990 and 2010 the world experienced a true technological revolution. These seven devices are milestones that marked our collective, and personal, history

Telomerase creams that have not undergone the clinical trials required for pharmaceuticals can be bought on the internet.

Why is it so difficult to create anti-aging drugs?

Daniel Mediavilla

Over 600 million people suffer from low back pain, the leading cause of disability in the world

Jessica Mouzo

Juan Luis Arsuaga with a reproduction of a Neanderthal fossil from Kebara (Israel), at the Center for Human Evolution and Behavior in Madrid.

Juan Luis Arsuaga: ‘The human mind is a permanent aberration’

Nuño Domínguez

The lost New York City publication that reappeared in a closet

Gloria Crespo MacLennan

Between 1968 and 1971, Steven Lawrence and Peter Hujar published 14 issues of ‘Newspaper’ — an underground tabloid that contained no text, only photographs