The White House has a press secretary again. Without barely looking up from the lectern and with an appearance much briefer than those her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt, used to make, Katie Zacharia debuted this Tuesday as the new spokesperson for the Donald Trump administration. The 41-year-old woman made her first appearance just after the US president announced over the weekend that he already had a new replacement for Leavitt.

Federal agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) searched the home of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar this Monday, as part of an investigation opened by the Department of Justice to determine if the legislator's parents, of Somali origin, committed irregularities in their immigration process. The raid marks an escalation in the harassment against Omar by Donald Trump, who earlier this year said that the legislator should be deported despite being a U.S. citizen. The execution of the search warrant comes with just over three weeks remaining before the Congressional elections, scheduled for November 3.

In recent days, social media in the United States has been filled with the phrase "I am also Jane Doe," a slogan that has also been repeated on the placards of the dozens of demonstrations that have taken place across the country this week. The reason: in October 2024, Jane Doe was raped by seven classmates at Cornell University for seven hours. She reported it, but none of the boys were arrested. Two of the attackers were expelled, and the other five only received minor sanctions, such as writing an essay about what had happened.

In the summer, when it was already clear that the Iran war was going to be a long one, at the register of a fairly well-known coffee shop chain in Washington, a discreet sign was framed in black. "A notice to our customers: from time to time, we have to adjust our prices to reflect the rising cost of ingredients and operations." In the pastry and cake display case, it was easy to spot the slight increase. The butter cookies with chocolate, which previously cost 90 cents each, now cost a dollar.

US President Donald Trump has spoken by phone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and both have agreed that Moscow will "immediately" deliver 300,000 tons of diesel to the United States. The announcement comes at a time when diesel prices have reached historic highs of up to $6.52 on average in the US. The agreement comes after the White House considered the possibility of banning US diesel exports for 90 days to cushion the price hike.

Tensions at the White House over the broadcast of the military execution that the Pentagon wants to carry out on December 3rd. Vice President J.D. Vance has cast doubt on whether Nidal Hasan will be publicly executed by a firing squad after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it on Thursday. "I'm not sure what will actually happen," Vance told reporters. "If it is actually broadcast live, I don't plan on watching it."

The United States charged the deposed Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, this Thursday with torture and repression. Thus, the American justice system is expanding the charges against the former Venezuelan leader, who remains imprisoned in New York accused of "narcoterrorism". The investigation into Maduro's alleged link to drug trafficking was the pretext that Washington used to escalate pressure against Venezuela and capture its top leader.

US President Donald Trump has approved the first military execution by firing squad since 1945. The inmate is Nidal Hasan, a former military psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded 32 during a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009. "Finally, the day of judgment has arrived for Hasan," Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X. It now remains for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to confirm the time and place the execution will be carried out.

Last summer, the Democratic base was still unable to say who was at the helm of the party. A poll published at the time by Politico showed a clear dichotomy between the reality of the Democratic party, still lost after the 2024 electoral defeat, and the Republican party, with the figure of Donald Trump as the ultimate authority. A year later, however, the party is beginning to glimpse the end of the political desert through which they had been wandering.

The interest rates on ten-year US Treasury bonds soared this Wednesday above 5.3%, thereby surpassing the peak reached in 2007 – the year before the bursting of the real estate bubble – and reaching their highest level since 2002. The figure is an indicator of how the perception of risk associated with the US economy under the administration of President Donald Trump is changing among investors.

The Donald Trump administration is finalizing the opening of a new migrant detention center at the former Alexandria military airfield (Louisiana). This is the first ICE-controlled detention center designed to deport unaccompanied minors. "It will be the first place dedicated exclusively to mass concentration of unaccompanied minors for their subsequent deportation," denounced Setareh Ghandehari, director of the organization Detention Watch Network, in a press conference this Wednesday afternoon. With a capacity of about 500 beds, the facilities would also hold families with children in their care, which are currently concentrated in Dilley (Texas).

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is cutting the number of U.S. Army generals and admirals by 20% amid ongoing struggles to fill vacancies in critical leadership positions. The Pentagon chief announced an additional 10% reduction this Wednesday, which adds to the same figure already ordered in May 2025, during an extraordinary address at the Quantico Marine base, where just a year ago he accused senior military commanders of allowing "fat" and "bearded" soldiers. The cut comes at a critical moment for the world's most powerful military, which remains bogged down in the Iran war and faces gaps in key areas following Hegseth's purge.

The general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly runs the risk of becoming a mere stage for an increasingly unilateral world. But, paradoxically, it is the only stage that continues to exist so that the 193 countries that are part of it can make themselves heard. Even if it is to threaten the "annihilation" of the other, to make warmongering proclamations of "not bowing one's head" or to attempt to whitewash a genocide.

Behind the warmongering rhetoric at the UN podium, Tehran seems to be moving in another direction. In the corridors of the United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian delegation, which had arrived in New York without showing any interest in dialogue, presented the US with a new proposal for an agreement to reopen the strait. The information was first leaked to the press by people familiar with the talks, and now the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has confirmed it.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were able to re-enter the White House this Thursday, following the clash between the Trump administration and the judge. Early in the morning, Secret Service agents had blocked the reporters' access even though a judge had instructed at dawn that the White House had to "immediately" restore their credentials.The order came after the three media outlets affected by the ban had taken the case to court. The District of Columbia judge, Timothy J. Kelly, had issued a ruling requiring the government to return the accreditations to the journalists for at least 14 days, a period during which the magistrate would reach a final decision.

The harsh criticisms against China, which culminated during the pandemic with constant references to the "Chinese virus," have vanished. The American president, Donald Trump, displayed good rapport this Thursday with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during his visit to the White House, the first in a decade. "Many things have changed since he was last here," the tycoon stated. The previous time Xi visited the presidential residence was in 2015, with Barack Obama as host.

Xi Jinping arrives in Washington with the perception of being an equal. Or at least, with the perspective that every day he is a little closer to being one. After hosting in May, this time the Chinese leader is the guest of the American president, Donald Trump. Only four months have passed since the last time the two leaders met in Beijing, and although China is also struggling with a weakened economy, Xi has more room to maneuver: he is not beholden to his voters.

The Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, has taken to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly to defend multilateralism at a time when "different governments, present here, despise or intend to dismantle" the organization that hosts them. Without explicitly mentioning him, the socialist referred to Donald Trump, who had already returned to Washington yesterday. Before Sánchez spoke, the American president had received his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, who preferred the White House to the UN headquarters.

In February, Donald Trump gave the Islamic Republic of Iran no more than four weeks of life after the United States and Israel jointly killed its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Seven months later, the ayatollahs' regime is still standing and its president, who was then hiding from bombs inside a bunker, has appeared from the UN headquarters in New York. Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the General Assembly this Wednesday in a new gesture of defiance: "They have tested the strength and firmness of Iran, and they have learned that Iran cannot be made to surrender".

Donald Trump has reworked the speech he used last year to address the UN General Assembly and has incorporated a long reference to the war in Iran. Beyond attacking the United Nations, the US president has repeated this Tuesday the same version of the conflict that he has been proclaiming for seven months: that the regime is finished and that "it will never be allowed to build a nuclear bomb." He has acknowledged, however, that "the only thing that has not disappeared [in Iran] is inflation, which is destroying the country." Americans, who see the price of gasoline continuing to rise, probably have some comments to add to these words from the president. Last week the Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023 following the latest inflation data in the country, which is already bordering on 3.4%.