Voters in Maine, Nevada, South Carolina, and North Dakota will head to the polls this Tuesday, June 9, to participate in another round of primary elections. The elections will determine the candidates for the Senate, the House of Representatives, governorships, and dozens of state and local offices that will be up for grabs in November.

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Arab Barghouti (Jerusalem, 35) says that “at the end of the day” he does not think of Marwan Barghouti as a politician, nor as the Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada (2000–2005), who was sentenced by Israel to five life terms in a trial full of irregularities 24 years ago. He thinks of himself as the son who wants his father “to come home.”

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Six people were stabbed at Penn Station, New York’s main intercity rail hub and its busiest station. The attack occurred on Sunday after 7.00 p.m. local time (1.00 a.m. CEST) between 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, the New York Fire Department told local media. The incident comes as the city is on a high security alert ahead of a planned presidential visit on Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump, Game 3 of the NBA Finals, and the start of the FIFA World Cup.

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“The world will stand still, and the eyes of the world will be focused on North America,” the 56-year-old Swiss president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, said a few days ago from the United Nations headquarters in New York. With four days to go before the ball starts rolling, the three host countries — the United States, Mexico, and Canada — say they have everything ready. Or, more precisely, almost everything. The biggest soccer tournament in history — 48 national teams playing a total of 104 matches — takes place amid various circumstances that complicate organization: the United States remains at war with Iran, President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies are frightening away many supporters, and FIFA’s dynamic-pricing ticket system has put seats out of reach for much of the fan base.

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She could hardly believe it. Sitting at home, Tamara Fernández Varela kept reading and re-reading the letter from the court in Carballo, in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, notifying her that her ex-husband had drugged, raped and photographed her. It included six images. In some she appeared completely naked. “I kept looking at them and saying: it can’t be me. Such brutality doesn’t fit inside your head. A woman looking dead in a bed. And it’s me,” recalls the 43-year-old woman. Her mother and she both began to scream. They screamed so loudly that a frightened neighbor called an ambulance.

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Pope Leo XIV delivered a historic speech on Monday inside Spanish parliament in a joint session of both houses, where he stressed that the moral value of political decisions must prevail “over mutable social consensus” and lamented “the permanent denigration of the adversary.”

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The executive order issued by the White House on May 1 has shaken Cuba’s foundations. The United States decided to tighten the noose around an economy that was already in intensive care even before the new sanctions that took effect on Friday, or the oil blockade implemented earlier this year. Washington’s threat to freeze assets on U.S. territory of any foreign company or individual doing business with the Cuban regime — especially with the vast portfolio of businesses held by Gaesa, the military conglomerate that controls half of Cuba’s GDP — has produced its first effects. And once foreign companies withdraw, their replacement by U.S. firms appears to be the next step.

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On stage, the performers are playing Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. He is about to die. She has returned to the world of the living, but only briefly, to be reunited with her beloved/loathed husband. “Life is brief, but the light will remain,” sings the chorus surrounding them, framed by a luminous staging and the baton of music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The music has not even finished when a near-capacity Lincoln Center erupts in applause, with ecstatic shouts of “viva,” in Spanish.

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Peru’s recent history of presidential elections advises caution when the margin is measured in tenths of a percentage point. If anyone knows this better than anyone else, it is Keiko Fujimori, who lost by a hair to Ollanta Humala in 2011, to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2016 and to Pedro Castillo in 2021. That is why, although an exit poll currently gives a slight edge to the leftist Roberto Sánchez —50.3% to 49.7%— the presidential runoff remains open in a race to choose the country’s ninth leader in 10 years.

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More than six months have passed, and Bruna Ferreira still does not understand why she was arrested. Nor does she understand why the Donald Trump administration labeled her a “criminal illegal alien” after her detention. What she does know for certain is that she has lived through a true “nightmare” ever since. She thanks God again and again that she only spent 26 days in a detention center before being released rather than deported, as thousands of migrants have been under the U.S. president’s mass deportation campaign. But her release did not bring an end to her ordeal. Getting her life back on track has proved difficult due to the massive media coverage her case received. After all, she is the mother of the White House press secretary’s nephew.

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