European Elections: Spain Seeks To Become The Third Leading Power In The EU

In less than two weeks the EU will hold its most important elections in history. Between the 23 and the 26 of May, European citizens will be called to the polls to elect the new members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the next five years. Many challenges await this term.

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Some Hispanics With Jewish Roots Pursue an Exit Strategy: Emigrate to Spain

ALBUQUERQUE — Ana Maria Gallegos’s family has called this part of the West home for centuries. But after growing horrified by the resurgent racism she has seen across the United States, she reviewed her options and decided on a plan: emigrate to Spain. Ms.

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Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

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Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A teenage thrash metal band screams out Maori lyrics in its latest videos. A popular radio host is learning New Zealand’s indigenous language and sharing new vocabulary with his audience.

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Brexit and the Land of the Porridge People

We’ve turned our anxieties about leaving the European Union into a food fight. Ms. Prendergast is a British journalist.

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Terrorism is Over. Now Spain Needs Lasting Peace.

BILBAO, Spain — Last week, in the small town of Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque region of France — just across the border from the Spain’s Basque Country — the Basque separatist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, best known as ETA, announced it was disbanding.

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British Citizen One Day, Illegal Immigrant the Next

LONDON — Renford McIntyre was just a child when he left Jamaica to join his parents in Britain. He spent the next 50 years here, working various jobs and paying taxes.

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Rugby-obsessed Tonga shaken by apparent ban to keep girls from playing the sport

Upon hearing the words “Tonga” and “athlete,” the first thing that most likely comes to mind is an image of Olympian Pita Nikolas Taufatofua in all his oily, muscular glory. Taufatofua competed in taekwondo.

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An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves

OUIDAH, Benin —Less than a mile from what was once West Africa’s biggest slave port, the departure point for more than a million people in chains, stands a statue of Francisco Félix de Souza, a man regarded as the father of this city.

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Where Brexit Hurts: The Nurses and Doctors Leaving London

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Nazis seized his home during World War II. A letter recently arrived, expressing remorse.

The letter arrived for Peter Hirschmann with a postmark from Nuremberg, Germany, where he and his family had escaped from Nazis nearly 80 years ago. The words, neat script in three pages, brought the 92-year-old resident of Maplewood, N.J., to tears.

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Xi Jinping Pushes China’s Rise Despite Friction and Fear

BEIJING — No part of the world seems too small, too near or too far for China’s globe-trotting president, Xi Jinping.

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Black Superheroes Matter: Why a 'Black Panther' Movie Is Revolutionary

Standing in the bay of a speeding Wakandan jet, a member of the African nation's special forces unit – the Dora Milaje – advises their king, T'Challa: "Don't freeze." Calmly, the leader replies "I never freeze." He's assured, regal, radiating a near subzero-temperature sense of cool.

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A Mother’s Death, a Botched Inquiry and a Sheriff at War

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Rusty Rodgers did not fit everyone’s image of a law enforcement officer, particularly in deeply conservative northeast Florida.

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Trump's supporters aren't abandoning him in this Pennsylvania town

Just two miles separated the Amvets post flea market from a meeting of refugees in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But the opinions on President Donald Trump were nowhere near each other. Below is how people viewed the complicated DC headlines in one American town.

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Paul Ryan and House GOP are in denial as inferno engulfs White House

Despite the appointment of a special counsel, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) still refuses to authorize a select committee or special commission. Asked whether he has confidence in the president, he declared, “I do.

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80 years later, the Nazi war crime at Guernica still matters

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. The Nazi aircraft appeared above Guernica in the late afternoon of April 26, 1937.

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It Takes Something Seismic to Get This Group Protesting

Give the current administration credit. It's managed to energize American politics in the most unlikely places.

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As Colin Kaepernick’s Gesture Spreads, a Spirit Long Dormant Is Revived

Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who touched off a national debate when he chose not to stand during the playing of the national anthem before games, has emboldened a handful of other players to follow suit.

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Senator’s daughter who raised price of EpiPen got paid $19 million salary, perks in 2015

This isn't the first time Mylan chief executive Heather Bresch has been under fire. Bresch, who started out in a low-level position in quality control at one of the company's factories, is the first female head of a large pharmaceutical company.

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