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The Senate building on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, in 2022.

Mexico's Congress clears the reform requiring single nationality for presidents and governors

The chamber of Bolivia's Cámara de Diputados, inside the Plurinational Legislative Assembly building in La Paz, in 2026.

Bolivia's legislature meets Friday to settle who runs the prosecution service after the attorney general's arrest

Governor Gavin Newsom at a 2025 press conference on California's artificial intelligence workforce agreements with technology companies.

Artificial intelligence

California bans the "robo boss": an algorithm alone may no longer fire a worker

The New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx meet at Barclays Center in Game 1 of the 2024 WNBA Finals.

The eighth-seeded Liberty sweep the top-seeded Lynx, a first in WNBA playoff history

The Supreme Court building in Washington, seen from the Library of Congress in 2023.

The Supreme Court takes up the case of a Brazilian jailed without a bond hearing after a decade in the United States

Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen speaking to the press at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels in August 2025.

EU and Ukraine say 2026 budget and defence spending is covered, and target €45 billion next year

The seat of the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt skyline at dawn, in 2015.

Euro area inflation rises to 3.8% in September as energy costs jump 18.8% in a year

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometres north-west of Madrid, in 2018.

El Escorial reopens its painting and architecture museums after ten years, free until December

The Cine Odeon in central Rio de Janeiro in 2023. The theatre hosted the opening screening of the 28th Festival do Rio.

Rio Film Festival opens its 28th edition with 359 titles and 110 Brazilian premieres

Jorge Messias at his swearing-in as head of Brazil's Advocacia-Geral da União, at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, in January 2023.

Brazil and the United States

Brazil asks its federal police to investigate a $1 million U.S. State Department grant aimed at critics of its Supreme Court

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with the Watergate complex behind it, on the Potomac in Washington, in 2019.

The Kennedy Center has burned through a $21 million credit line and half its reserves in nine months

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at one of her morning press conferences, in 2024.

Mexico's Senate passes the so-called "anti-meme law", and Sheinbaum says it bans no memes at all

US airmen change an engine on a B-1 Lancer bomber at RAF Fairford, England, in November 2023.

UK prime minister sees "strong indications" of Iranian involvement in the Fairford air base case, but offers no evidence

Meskel Square and the Addis Ababa skyline, in Ethiopia's capital, in 2021.

Explosions hit Addis Ababa, and a rebel alliance says it struck Ethiopia's military headquarters with drones

Nelore cattle in Campos Belos, Goiás, in February 2014.

Brazilian beef now faces a 67% duty in China after the annual quota ran out

Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, photographed in March 2026. New York swept its Wild Card Series there and now meets Tampa Bay.

Yankees, White Sox and Padres sweep their Wild Card Series, and only Atlanta still has a game to play

The artist Christine Sun Kim, one of the 20 MacArthur fellows named for 2026, in a portrait taken in 2022.

MacArthur Fellows

Twenty MacArthur fellows get $800,000 each, with no project to deliver and no report to file

The Herbert C. Hoover Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Commerce, whose Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the PCE price index. Photographed in 2024.

August inflation came in at 3.4%, and traders halved the odds of an October Fed increase

Brazil's women's national football team before their match against Japan at the SheBelieves Cup in February 2019.

Women's football

Brazil's new law gives academies 180 days to field women's teams and caps non-professional players at four in the top flight

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood at the Five Country Ministerial in London in September 2025.

UK ends its "one in, one out" deal with France after 1,400 returns at £56,000 each