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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap election next month after parliament rejected his proposed plan to tame public anger about the country’s housing crisis. A temporary eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner from her Madrid home has galvanized demonstrations that have spread across Spain. Soaring property prices have upended ...

Brazil’s presidential election will go to a runoff on Oct. 25, after conservative challenger Flávio Bolsonaro unexpectedly emerged as the favorite in the first-round vote. Polls seesawed in the runup to the election as both Bolsonaro — whose father was banned from running after having led a coup attempt — ...

The Scoop Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson was talking about the media business on Vox’s podcast last month when host Peter Kafka asked him: How was the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, feeling about the growing success of Thompson’s personal podcast? “We make a lot of money on the stuff I do,” ...

The News One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters. Marc Elias has argued dozens of cases around mail-in balloting and election access across the country and in front of the Supreme Court over the last decade. But he has also ...

The Scoop A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is pledging $10 million by the end of 2027 to fund mainstream and independent coverage of artificial intelligence. The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism plans to announce that it is launching an institutional grantmaking fund, which executive director ...

OpenAI faces mounting legal risks stemming from cyber incidents linked to its AI models, after the firm alerted more than 100 organizations to unauthorized activities. The disclosures come amid increasing criticism of the company’s safety approach: Another OpenAI employee announced his resignation Saturday in The Atlantic, writing that he “decided ...

China closed a record 670 banks last year, or nearly one in four lenders, as Beijing pushes to de-risk amid slowing economic growth. Nearly all were rural banks, which “remain the weakest part of the system, with poor asset quality, low capitalization, and governance shortcomings,” Fitch wrote. After a massive ...

More than 150 million Brazilians voted Sunday in a pivotal presidential election for Latin America’s largest economy, after a campaign dominated by tensions between Brasília and Washington. Brazil’s attorney general last week accused the US of undermining Brazilian democracy — a central theme for incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces launched a major military campaign Sunday to beat back Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, adding fresh risks to oil markets as Iran reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Gulf OPEC+ producers continue to pump well below prewar levels, while global inventories have fallen sharply amid export ...

The US director of national intelligence and the Federal Trade Commission chairman will head up the White House’s “Super Intelligence Force” on AI, President Donald Trump announced Sunday. The task force — which also includes the vice president, defense secretary, Treasury secretary, and former AI czar David Sacks — will ...