Daniel Alarcón: “Lo que me molesta del ataque a la libertad de expresión es que tanta gente poderosa se haya rendido” - El escritor y periodista peruano-estadounidense acaba de estrenar la temporada 15 del exitoso pódcast narrativo Radio Ambulante. elpais.com/us/2025-10-2...

“I never crossed a border—only watched the land shift like a tired animal, folding / itself around my feet until I belonged to a country I didn’t name.” Read a new poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes:

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science - Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do. quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

Six things Trump should know about Liberia after he praised leader's 'good English' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Liberia: la compleja historia del país creado en África para albergar a la población negra de EE.UU. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

💚 LA's loneliest bachelor': How a mateless Hollywood puma inspired the world's biggest animal bridge www.bbc.com/future/artic...

No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed - The bill steals from the sick, elderly and hungry, and gives to billionaires and jackboots. But Republicans will follow their leader anywhere www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America’s New Anti-Vaccine Foreign Policy - The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona says President Trump's decision to strike Iran leaves the U.S. in a "dangerous" moment and he worries it may speed up its efforts to build a nuclear weapon.

¿Dónde están ubicadas las bases militares de EE.UU. en Medio Oriente señaladas por Irán como posibles objetivos? www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

JUST IN: Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.

At least 45 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry

La tensa semana en Colombia que acabó con el atentado al precandidato presidencial Miguel Uribe Turbay y que recordó a los peores años de la violencia política @jcueto.bsky.social www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Love this: The stunning football pitches hiding in the Arctic Circle - BBC Sport www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

"Hemos pasado de ser un país poderoso a ser la escoria": la rabia y frustración de los venezolanos al ver restringida su entrada a EEUU - @porpuesto.bsky.social para BBC Mundo www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

"President Trump is employing the vast power of his office to redefine criminality to suit his needs — using pardons to inoculate criminals he likes, downplaying corruption and fraud as crimes, and seeking to stigmatize political opponents by labeling them criminals." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

One in six female survivors surveyed felt forced to engage in ‘survival sex’ for necessities after 2023 catastrophic Hawaii fire www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The US says it will "aggressively revoke" Chinese student visas and has paused interviews for all student visa applicants. Experts warn the moves could weaken American leadership in STEM. "It’s a brain drain."

Al final Cartagena siempre me pone triste.

“The government calls them all ‘illegal aliens.’ But of the 90 cases where the method of crossing is known, 50 men report that they came legally to the United States, with advanced US government permission, at an official border crossing point,” Cato said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The demeaning spectacle of the human zoo comes to mind as one U.S. official after another has traveled to El Salvador for photo ops inside the notorious prison known as CECOT," @cmonstah.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/3SwWDl3

WaPo OPINION - HOW A SALVADORAN PRISON BECAME A POLITICAL HUMAN ZOO by @cmonstah.bsky.social ‪https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/cecot-el-salvador-prison-human-zoo-deportation/?itid=hp_opinions_p001_f014

‼️ Venezuelan deported from US using gang 'points system', lawyers say - @cbarria.bsky.social For BBC News Mundo www.bbc.com/news/article...

‼️ El sistema de puntos que usó EE.UU. para calificar al venezolano Andry Hernández como supuesto miembro del Tren de Aragua y deportarlo a El Salvador - @cbarria.bsky.social para BBC Mundo www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Meet the new class! We’re pleased to introduce the 2026 Nieman Fellows, 22 accomplished journalists who cover stories around the globe. They’ll join us at @harvard.edu this fall to study, investigate and collaborate. Welcome to all. nieman.harvard.edu/the-nieman-f...

Americans didn’t vote for less stuff that costs more "President Donald Trump seems to be in denial about the unpopularity of his trade wars." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Venezuela perdió 75% del tamaño de su economía entre 2013 y 2021, una de las contracciones económicas más severas registradas en la historia moderna. Y al menos 7,7 millones de personas emigraron durante la última década. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

NPF also awarded @taylorknopf.bsky.social from @nchealthnews.bsky.social an honorable mention for her investigation into understaffing at a psychiatric hospital. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2024/05/06/f...

The National Press Foundation has awarded Sarah Wildman of the @nytimes.com the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting for her personal, in-depth reporting on pediatric end-of-life care. nationalpress.org/award-story/...

The sign 😀

At the entrance to a healthcare centre on Trafalgar Street, in my Madrid neighbourhood, somebody had stuck a sign: “We ask for patience and common sense.” The door was half open as doctors and nurses tended to emergencies inside. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Iberian blackout showed the resilience of basic services – and for me, the calm with which most people reacted was remarkable. But this extraordinary event has also exposed our many vulnerabilities in a power-dependent and internet-reliant world. My take www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead - Viktoriia Roshchyna set out to report on claims that Russia was operating a network of unofficial detention centers in occupied Ukraine. But in August 2023 she disappeared into one herself. wapo.st/3YNw5PF

I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more - Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence - “Over the past months it has become clear that I wouldn’t be allowed to run the show as I’ve always run it to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Hundreds of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation had their grants and fellowships terminated late Friday afternoon. Disinformation research was among the projects targeted, because it no longer "aligned with NSF priorities.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...

Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Research Powers Progress - Research at Harvard—from medicine to technology to education and business—touches countless lives, moving us closer to disease cures, next-generation technology, and a more secure future for millions of people. www.harvard.edu

La historia de la impactante imagen de un niño palestino mutilado que ganó el premio World Press Photo 2025 www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

"In critical areas like antibiotic-resistant infection surveillance, no one is left at the labs to take those samples. Hospitals also ask the CDC for advice when seeing a novel illness. But the process of examining and answering those requests has been disrupted" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cómo la ley que EE.UU. aprobó para subir aranceles en 1930 terminó por devastar su economía y agravar la Gran Depresión www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered top Trump administration officials to preserve their Signal chat messages discussing plans for an attack in Yemen.

Wrote this for the Radio Times… I care enormously about the BBC which is why I’m trying to be transparent about why I’m leaving and where I think it’s going wrong www.radiotimes.com/tv/current-a...

I’ve just recorded my last contribution for the BBC after 39 years. It’ll be on the next edition of From Our Own Correspondent on @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice Now onward to new adventures… As my hero Marcelo Bielsa might say, ‘Vamos Carajo!’

"En EEUU hoy existe el mismo riesgo a la libertad de expresión que el que hubo durante la caza de brujas anticomunista de los años 50”: Clay Risen, autor de "Red Scare: blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America”. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

“El gobierno de Panamá ha dicho que los migrantes que no pueden regresar a su país de origen tendrán que buscar un tercer país que esté dispuesto a recibirlos. Aquellos que hablaron con la BBC, sin embargo, no habían encontrado a donde ir”. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

"My timeline is full of reactive hot takes and gotchas by people who still seem to think they can quote-dunk their way out of fascism—or who know they can't, but simply can't resist taking the bait." www.404media.co/you-cant-pos... #activism #fascism #USpol #SocialMedia

The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. nyti.ms/43Xz77q