The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has once again had a confrontation with the press, this time with Kristen Holmes, a CNN correspondent. During an event in the Oval Office, while the journalist was asking him about his contacts with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and about the decision to reduce the scale of joint military maneuvers with South Korea; Trump interrupted her and ordered her to be quiet. "Shut up, shut up, shut up!", he told her insistently on several occasions. He then also called her "noisy" and "scandalous" and accused her of "spreading fake news".

Measles, a virus that the United States had considered eradicated in 2000, is breaking contagion records in the country. With more than 2,300 people affected – and the count continues to grow – 2026 is already the worst year for contagions in two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 93% and 94% of individuals who have contracted measles were not vaccinated, or it was not recorded that they were. But who the White House has decided to declare war on is not the disease, but the vaccines.

First was the withdrawal of the THAAD anti-aircraft defense system – which has a deterrent function against North Korea – and now, the reduction of joint military exercises by the US and South Korean armies. Donald Trump announced this Monday that the Pentagon will reduce the maneuvers it conducts annually on South Korean territory, in response to the "Seoul's refusal to help him in the Iran war. The US president also mentioned his "good relationship" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as one of the reasons.

Sixty days. This was the deadline that the United States and Iran gave themselves to transform the memorandum of understanding signed in June into a final agreement. The deadline expires this Monday without this agreement having been reached. And during these two months, the understanding that was supposed to contain the war has been on the verge of causing it to explode again. In fact, in the last few hours Tehran has raised its tone again: a high-ranking commander of the Revolutionary Guard has warned that its defensive stance will become "offensive" and has threatened with "strategic surprises" against the enemy.

One year after the historic summit in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, a peace agreement in Ukraine seems much further away than at that moment, although in reality it has never been close. During these months, Russian diplomacy has coined the concept spirit of Anchorage –the military base where the meeting was held– to argue that in Alaska the Americans had accepted the Kremlin's conditions to end the conflict. However, the passing weeks have shown that this spirit was an evanescent chimera. Relations between Russia and the United States are now going through one of the worst moments since the Republican's return to the White House,, and the thawing process that peaked a year ago is heading into a dead end.

In February 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House after Donald Trump returned to power to guarantee American military support. It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders after the Republican regained the presidency in the US and also a time when Patriot missiles, crucial for defense against Russian attacks, were already beginning to be scarce in Kyiv. That day Trump berated Zelensky, telling him he had no cards. What the leader perhaps did not imagine was that, a year and a half later, he would find himself in a similar situation: the Pentagon is having trouble resupplying its Patriot missiles.

New grandiloquent promise from the President of the United States. Donald Trump has assured in the last few hours that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz as "United States territory" once the American army has fulfilled its mission to "defeat Iran". The leader assured this at a rally in New York, and quickly received a response from Tehran: "The Strait of Hormuz cannot be conquered with a tweet or with aircraft carriers, nor by issuing an order or with an electoral speech," wrote Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, on X.

Grifols' results evolution has served to reduce tension among investors, who have not fully calmed down since the publication of the Gotham City Research report against the Catalan company in January 2024. The share price of the plasma-derived medicines giant remains far from the levels it held before the attack, but the good performance of its accounts has been enough to question some of the most critical theses regarding its value. Among them, those of some of the short-selling investors who had accumulated positions in the company's capital, and who have been reducing or withdrawing them in recent months.

The journalists accompanying the US President, Donald Trump, on the return flight from Turkey were not the only ones who remained inside Air Force One threatened while the Republican secretly took another plane.Members of the US government were on board the decoy aircraft, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to US government sources revealed to the "New York Times.Normally, when the US president boards one of the White House's various jets, it officially becomes Air Force One. But on this occasion, when the Republican clandestinely left the old Boeing to board Air Force C-32, the name was not changed. Even though Trump was not on board the aircraft, the old model continued to be called Air Force One so that it would act as a decoy for the Iranians.

US President Donald Trump announced this Wednesday afternoon that Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her position at the end of the month. In a post on Truth Social, the commander-in-chief explained that Leavitt is stepping down from the front lines to be with her family. Recently, the White House spokeswoman had been on maternity leave after having her second child. "From now on, she will be one of my top advisors outside the administration and an influential voice within the party as we work to win the midterm elections," the commander-in-chief wrote.

The North American president, Donald Trump, has been weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran without achieving a nuclear deal, the "Wall Street Journal" reported Sunday, citing U.S. officials. In reality, he has lost the war and gained nothing, but he must build a different narrative in his favor. It's an old trick we know well.

The terrible earthquake in Colombia comes just as Abelardo de la Espriella, an ally of Trump and many far-right governments in the region, was taking office in Colombia. While awaiting to see how the new leader and his team manage the catastrophe, we will, with all solidarity, focus solely on political analysis. And, I believe, it is advisable not to overstate the easy headline about a regional right-wing and Trumpist wave. Political and electoral phenomena in Latin America, as everywhere, reflect change and continuity. In 2026 we will witness five presidential and two local elections, which are added to various presidential and legislative elections during 2025. I will present a triple thesis on the region: 1) there are four crucial features to consider; 2) there is no right-wing wave that can be analyzed homogeneously in the region; 3) the Trump factor exists, but has uncertain final results.Let's consider the four key features. First, the persistence of the protest vote against incumbents, which coexists with the ratification of certain leaderships: in Honduras, where 80% voted for opposition candidates; in Chile, where Kast won by almost 20 points, but also with support for governments in Mexico, El Salvador, and Argentina. Second, the loss of relevance and institutional power of centrist parties (excepting the case of Bolivia, where a center-right candidate won): votes have gone towards the extreme right or left, which has increased fragmentation and polarization. Third, a Trump factor is observed, due to the emergence of Trumpist candidates (Honduras, Chile, or Colombia) or their weight in elections such as the Argentine ones, with the support of the loan from Washington, or their relevance in the final stretch of the campaign in Honduras. The fourth feature is the regional relevance of the increase in the cost of living, low economic growth, and insecurity, causal factors that explain many results.

Donald Trump did not return from the NATO summit held in Ankara with the old Air Force One, as the White House had reported at the time. On July 8, the US president did not use either the old presidential plane or the new Boeing gifted by Qatar, but rather Air Force C-32. The Secret Service used the catering vehicle to secretly transfer the Republican from one plane to another, according to government sources revealed to various US media outlets. The Washington Post, the first to break the exclusive story, explains that an Iranian threat to assassinate Trump triggered the operation.

In the summer, when coastal waters warm up, the presence of a bacterium that can cause serious infections in humans increases. It is Vibrio vulnificus, a microorganism that naturally lives in marine and brackish waters in different parts of the world. The U.S. state of Louisiana has reported nine cases of infection this 2026, five of which have resulted in the death of those affected. All cases have required hospitalization, and authorities have linked them to the exposure of wounds to seawater. During the previous ten years, the state had reported an average of about seven cases and one death annually.

The war in Iran, which the United States and Israel began on February 28, has entered its sixth month and for now, no predictions can be made about its end. As the conflict extends, with its peaks and periodic truces, Donald Trump's popularity falls more and more, thus creating a situation that does not suit him, especially considering that we are in an election year.

Donald Trump already has a new attorney general, a man of his utmost confidence. Todd Blanche, who was the president's lawyer and who until now held the interim position, has been confirmed by the United States Senate. Blanche's confirmation marks the culmination of the process by which Trump has transformed the Department of Justice into his personal retribution ministry. Blanche assumed the role of interim attorney general in the spring after the US president dismissed Pam Bondi without giving any public explanation.

In 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris attempted to replicate Donald Trump's effect by adopting part of his political framework. However, the strategy of shifting further to the right resulted in an electoral defeat that left the party leadership directionless. Now, figures like progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan or socialist Melat Kiros in Colorado are winning the Democratic primaries by doing the opposite: they are maintaining their own agenda and rejecting theTrump's brand, but they use his tools, like the attack on the establishment, to channel social discontent.

Negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are advancing, although the final details remain unsettled. Iran and Oman have moved closer on a new maritime route to re-establish transit through this strategic passage, while Washington and Tehran maintain indirect contact to resolve the political obstacles that still block a definitive reopening.

Abdul El-Sayed has confirmed that the anti-establishment wave within the Democratic Party is not a cosmopolitan fever. After an agonizing vote count that stretched into Wednesday morning, the progressive candidate has proclaimed himself the winner of the Michigan Senate primaries against congresswoman Haley Stevens. He did so with a difference of 20,000 votes, a narrow margin of 0.9 points with 95% of votes counted. The electoral contest in this Midwestern state has been one of the most expensive due to the amount of money that the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC injected into Stevens' candidacy in an attempt, ultimately unsuccessful, to unseat El-Sayed.

The law to change how voting works in the United States, the Save Act, is not the only parliamentary process that has stalled for Donald Trump. The American president is grappling with his senators to get Todd Blanche ratified as attorney general. Currently, Blanche, who is his former lawyer, is holding the position on an interim basis. Two Republican lawmakers, Thom Tillis and John Cornyn, had become the main roadblock. But now, their stance has changed due to Blanche's concessions in the deal Trump struck with the tax agency (IRS, in its English acronym).