Continuing his pattern of acting outside the bounds of international law and resorting to threats and force to achieve his objectives, US President Donald Trump is once again sowing chaos and uncertainty, as he has done more than once with tariffs. This time, he is threatening to sever all trade relations with Spain in response to the Spanish government's ban on the use of the Rota (Cádiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville) naval bases for attacks on Iran. He is ignoring the fact that Iran is part of a political and economic bloc like the European Union (EU), which acts as a single entity, and that there are intertwined economic, commercial, and business interests that benefit not only Spanish companies but also US ones. There are precedents for this type of threat, such as when he said he would impose tariffs on Spain because it did not allocate 5% of its GDP to defense spending—a threat he later retracted. As on the previous occasion, Brussels has reminded him that he cannot punish some countries and not others.

On Monday the blow seemed less severe, although the trading session ended with losses, but this Tuesday the stock markets plummeted. The Ibex 35, the main benchmark of the Spanish stock market, fell 4.55% despite holding above the 17,000-point level, after reaching record highs well above 18,000. The only stock to gain ground was Repsol, with an advance of over 3%. The rest of the Ibex stocks accumulated declines; Acciona (-11.77%), Solaria (-10.46%), and Acerinox (-9.46%) were the hardest hit. The messages coming from the White House regarding the conflict with Iran, far from calming the situation, have made investors more nervous, who anticipate a longer conflict than expected.

The war against Iran only has four days left.But some media outlets have already started talking about its end. However, the interests of the United States and those of Israel do not always coincide. Therefore, the strategies for exiting the conflict may differ for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The controlled attack that Donald Trump envisioned against Iran has now escalated into a conflict that the president estimates will last "four or five weeks." "Although we have the capability for longer," he stated on Monday in his first public appearance since the bombing of Tehran. The president did not make these remarks in a televised address to the nation, but rather at a White House ceremony already scheduled to award medals of honor to Vietnam War veterans. "We have the most powerful and strongest military in the world," the president emphasized, even though two weeks ago the military leadership warned him against conducting any operations against the ayatollahs due to the army's depleted arsenal and the potential for casualties. At this point, six American service members have already died, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth anticipates more casualties. He also has not ruled out sending troops to the region.

The war against Iran is escalating in the region. It has transformed into a far-reaching conflict, not limited to Iran, Israel, and Lebanon. The Iranian offensive spread throughout the Gulf region on Monday and even to Cyprus, where Tehran attacked a British military base. It also used supersonic ballistic missiles for the first time against Tel Aviv, which struck Benjamin Netanyahu's office and the headquarters of the Israeli air force commander. However, Israel maintains that no injuries have been reported.

Donald Trump seems more willing to talk to the ayatollahs than to the US Congress. While lawmakers are still fighting to be informed about the military campaign in Iran—about which they were also not consulted—the US president has extended an olive branch to the ousted Iranian regime. Yesterday, when Trump He confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Alei Khamenei and also offered "immunity" for all those members of the Revolutionary Guard and law enforcement who supported regime change. Conversely, this Sunday the Republican opened himself up to talking with Khamenei's successor and assured that the new leaders in Tehran want to talk with Washington. The tycoon has made all these statements in posts on Truth Social, or in media interviews. More than 24 hours have passed since the joint attack and Trump did not plan to return to Washington until Sunday night – he remains at his Mar-a-Lago mansion – nor has he appeared publicly to address the nation now that three American soldiers have died.

Washington launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq repeating the lie that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, weapons that were never found. In January 2026, a US special forces guerrilla captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, claiming he was the leader of a drug cartel, an argument that has now evaporated. The United States and Israel justified their joint attack on Iran this Saturday with the argument that Tehran could develop an atomic bomb, a tool some consider a global deception used to justify an attack without legal backing against an inconvenient third country. In reality, Iran had already placed its nuclear program under international control. in an agreement he signed in 201The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), aimed to ensure that Iran's nuclear program was exclusively peaceful. Tehran supposedly committed to reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium and allowing rigorous inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in exchange for the gradual lifting of international sanctions. Trump withdrew from the agreement during his first term, at Israel's urging, by imposing new sanctions on Iran and on companies worldwide with Iranian projects. Trump withdrew because Netanyahu had always opposed it, and for several years the European Union, along with the IAEA, maintained these principles alone. Talks resumed under Joe Biden, but with Iranian support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the already doomed agreement was definitively shelved.

Although no official source from the ayatollahs' regime had confirmed the death of the supreme leader by late Saturday, which Israel and Donald Trump himself were reporting as fact, many Tehran residents loudly celebrated the alleged assassination of Ali Khamenei. "Khamenei, one of the most evil people in history, is dead," Trump said on social media.

The decisive joint military operation by the United States and Israel against Iran, which has once again plunged the Middle East into extreme uncertainty, has been met with a response from the ayatollahs' regime in the form of dozens of missiles fired at Israeli territory and US bases in the region. The world is watching the unfolding events closely. From a diplomatic standpoint, the degree of forcefulness of the reactions varies, although there is widespread concern about the danger of the situation worsening throughout this part of the world.

Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI after days of dispute between the company and the Pentagon, which demanded to use the artificial intelligence without the company's ethical restrictions. The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic allow the use of its technology to command missile launches, fly autonomous military drones, and conduct mass surveillance. Dario Amodei, the company's CEO, refused, citing ethical and risk concerns. Until now, Anthropic's technology was used in the Department of Defense's classified system. Late Friday, the CEO of OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, announced that he had reached an agreement with the administration to apply its models to the network of classified material. When all public contracts with Anthropic were canceled on Friday, the Pentagon also announced that it would declare the company a supply chain risk. This declaration is significant for the artificial intelligence lab after the clash over the limits of its technology's application. On Thursday, Amodei issued a statement amidst the ongoing standoff with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "In a small set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values." It added: "Some uses are also simply beyond the limits of what current technology can do safely and reliably. Two of these use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now," specifically citing the use of autonomous weapons and the OpenAI Agreement.

"Tonight we reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy our models on its classified network," wrote Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in X. "AI safety and the broad sharing of its benefits are at the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are the prohibition of the mass production of autonomous weapons systems. The Department of Defense shares these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we have incorporated them into our agreement," he explained, aware of the clash between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Amodei in recent days. Altman also stated that they are asking the Department of Defense to "offer the same terms to other AI companies."

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The threat of war in Iran has not disappeared, despite the seemingly reassuring messages Sent on Thursday from Geneva, where the United States and Iran held a third round of indirect negotiations to try to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. Hours later, the US embassy in Israel authorized the departure of non-essential personnel, citing "security risks," and sent an email warning them that if they wished to leave, "they should do so today." In addition, the United Kingdom evacuated all staff from its embassy in Tehran, and China also called on its citizens to leave Iran.

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Thursday's negotiations in Geneva between the United States and Iran had the feel of one of the last chances to avert war. And the messages released at the end seemed hopeful. This was the third meeting since the start of the talks. Talks resumed on the development of Iran's nuclear capabilities February 6th. Three weeks ago, but Donald Trump has made it clear he's in a hurry. Last Thursday, the US president doubled down on the pressure, saying Iran had between ten and fifteen days to accept a deal. Otherwise, he warned, "very bad things" would happen—a threat accompanied by an unprecedented military deployment in the region, the largest in the last thirty years.

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Seven hours after entering the House hearing to testify in the Epstein case, Hillary Clinton denounced "unusual questions" from Republican members of the House committee. "They started asking me about UFOs and Pizzagate. One of the vilest conspiracy theories to have spread across the internet has served as the basis for the [Committee] members to question me," Clinton said Thursday night. Pizzagate, which went viral in 2016, was a false theory that claimed police had uncovered a pedophile ring linked to the Democratic Party. Pizzagate is considered the precursor to the QAnon conspiracy theories, which are embraced by many Trump supporters. Last summer, Pizzagate resurfaced online when new details emerged about the relationship between Donald Trump and Epstein, who died in his jail cell in 2019 just before his trial. The Clintons' testimony has reignited online speculation about Democratic Party members allegedly going to the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington to abuse children. Pizzagate led to the restaurant being targeted in two attacks by conspiracy theorists: one involved a shooting in 2016, and another attempted to set it on fire in 2019.

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American economist Charles Manski has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management, now in its eighteenth year, for his pioneering contributions to calculating uncertainty in economic research and its application to public policy analysis. The professor at Northwestern University (Chicago, USA) has been a "key figure," according to the jury's statement, in the development of modern econometric methods. These methods have transformed how economists draw conclusions from data, recognize the degree of uncertainty in their models, and evaluate public policies when evidence is incomplete. Sir Richard Blundell, holder of the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London (UK), noted that Manski's work "has revealed some of the erroneous assumptions we economists make that render our predictions and our understanding of behavior quite fragile." "He has taught us to carefully examine the assumptions on which our analyses are based and to ground both our predictions and our understanding of behavior in credible evidence." "He is a great innovator in empirical measurement methods in economics and the social sciences," said Manuel Arellano, Professor of Economics at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) of the Bank of Spain and secretary of the jury.

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The Cuban Coast Guard killed four crew members of a speedboat from the United States on Wednesday. Havana claims they were Cuban exiles. Six other men on the same boat were wounded, as was one of the coast guards. The Cuban Interior Ministry maintains they were dissidents, some of whom were wanted by the regime as conspirators. They allegedly attempted to enter the country dressed in camouflage and armed with assault rifles, pistols, and homemade explosives. According to the Interior Ministry, the vessel failed to comply with orders to stop, as it was "illegally" in Cuban territorial waters. When the agents approached the American boat to identify the crew, they opened fire on the Cuban officers, wounding the commander. In a brief statement, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior detailed that the incident occurred in waters near the province of Villa Clara and that the American vessel was registered in Florida, USA, with the following identification: FL7726SH. For now, Cuban authorities have not provided details about the identities of those traveling on the vessel or their possible motives.

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In the tsunami of more of the three million documents on the Epstein case published in January, The Justice Department withheld a number of key files concerning Donald Trump. An FBI index of investigations has revealed that a memo prepared by the agency following a 2019 complaint filed by a woman is missing from the files released to the public. The woman accused Trump and Epstein of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor years earlier. Since the summary of the memo is included in the vast public database created by the administration, it has been possible to determine how the department has withheld the aforementioned report. According to the index, the FBI conducted four interviews related to these allegations, but only the notes from one have been released. The remaining three, totaling approximately 50 pages, are missing. The public documents also do not include the original interview notes, which are listed in the index as part of the file. In other interviews conducted by the FBI with other potential victims and witnesses of the abuse, the Justice Department has released the original notes.

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A year ago, Donald Trump addressed Congress with the airs of someone who almost believed himself untouchable: he controlled the legislature and had the Supreme Court on his side; he enjoyed high approval ratings; and the grace period that every leader experiences upon taking office. Tonight's Trump was a Caesar angrily gripping the reins that were beginning to slip through his sweaty fingers: he is at his lowest approval rating since returning to the White House; he knows he will likely lose control of one of the chambers of Congress; and five days ago the high court struck down his reciprocal tariffs. "Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever. [...] And you haven't seen anything like it, we still have to do better and better and better. This is America's golden age," the Republican began tepidly, but after the first hour of his speech, he reverted to his characteristic aggressiveness in the cities.

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After from the storm at the end of January that ravaged the east coast and parts of the southern United StatesA new winter front is battering the northeast of the country. The snowfall, which left layers of snow up to 70 centimeters deep, caused flight cancellations and delays, as well as leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The worst of the storm is being felt in New York City, which declared a state of emergency in the face of the worst snowstorm in a decade. On Monday, accumulations of up to 40 centimeters of snow were recorded in Manhattan.

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Donald Trump's anger with the Supreme Court over cancel reciprocal tariffs This can be measured by the number of posts on Truth Social attacking the justices. Three days after the ruling, the president is still ranting against the conservative justices who rebelled against him and threatened "more powerful and damaging" tariffs. The president didn't like seeing the conservative majority break ranks. Trump is now overreacting and promising worse calamities as a warning of what could happen in the future if the high court continues to go against him. Also on the Supreme Court's docket is the case of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, which will be crucial for the independence of the US central bank.

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The US Secret Service, responsible for the president's security, shot and killed a 21-year-old man on Sunday who had entered the security perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Although Trump usually spends weekends there, at the time of the incident, both he and his wife, Melania Trump, were at the White House. The intruder, identified as Austin Tucker Martin, was from North Carolina, and his family had reported him missing a few days earlier. According to US authorities, the individual was spotted near the north gate of the property with what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can in the early morning hours. The incident comes amid a rise in political violence in the United States. In 2024, A bullet grazed Trump's ear during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Later, another man—later convicted of attempted murder—was found hiding in the brush of a Florida golf course with a semiautomatic rifle while the president was playing.

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