Hacer un especial sobre el Mundial en un periódico sin sección de Deportes y una de las pocas redacciones del país en la que no se habla de fútbol los lunes ni es algo que le interese al director. Ese es el reto durante los próximos 40 días. El primero en apuntarse, con tres palabras, fue Enric González: “Cuenta con ello”. Enric ha contado como nadie la vida a través del fútbol. Más información en su Historias del calcio.
Y casi al mismo tiempo se sumó nuestro corresponsal en Washington, Andrés Gil, y Alfonso Alba, desde Córdoba y Luis Pardo, desde Santiago de Compostela y Pol Pareja desde Barcelona, porque no todo, tampoco un mundial a lo lejos, se va a contar desde Madrid. Aceptó Vanesa Rodríguez, directora de Estrategia de Contenidos de elDiario.es, quien de pequeña acompañaba a su padre al estadio del Leganés. No está segura de ir a tolerar bien los 104 partidos, el mundial más largo de la historia, pero ha prometido escribir.
La competición arranca este jueves, se alargará hasta el 19 de julio y mientras dure, aquí tomaremos el fútbol como excusa para hablar de economía, de historia, de geopolítica y de conflictos sociales. De todo en general.
Se han sumado firmas invitadas como Gonzo, Juan Tallón, Lucía Taboada y Arturo Lezcano. José Antonio Pérez Ledo, Mi Mesa cojea, ya tiene cerrada su primera entrevista falsa con Hernán Cortés, como embajador de una de las tres sedes y que ha recobrado notoriedad en las últimas semanas. Ahora negocia otra en exclusiva con Donald Trump, que lleva la notoriedad consigo a todas partes.
Una de las mejores futbolistas españolas de todos los tiempos (nos pide no revelar su nombre todavía) hará lo posible por buscar huecos desde su cobertura en Estados Unidos para contarnos cómo lo va viendo.
Arsenio Escolar tendrá una sección semanal sobre el lenguaje propio del fútbol y Moha Gerehou analizará en sus vídeos los otros debates que suscita un Mundial.
La oferta para escribir sigue abierta a toda la redacción de eldiario.es y la invitación a seguir este experimento la extendemos a todos los lectores.
Prometemos una cobertura distinta para intentar acercar el mundial también a todas esas personas que no van estar pendientes de la clasificación e incluso a quien se haya prometido no ver un solo partido. Por eso lo hemos llamado El Mundial de elDiario.es y no el Diario del Mundial. La filosofía de este lugar de encuentro seguirá lo que le dijo a sus jugadores Johan Cruyff, uno de los iconos de este deporte, antes de disputar el partido más importante de sus vidas: “Salid ahí y divertíos”. Es lo que pretendemos hacer aquí durante el próximo mes y medio.
Leo called Gaudí's unfinished temple, one of the world's most visited monuments, a "sign of unity and harmony for all of Spain," an ongoing building project like the lifelong journey all Christians make to find God.
Se para Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, o discurso de estreia no Dia de Portugal de António José Seguro foi "excecional", entre os partidos com representação parlamentar, da esquerda à direita, a maioria também teceu elogios aos apelos, e recados, feitos pelo Presidente da República a partir dos Açores.
Se para Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, o discurso de estreia no Dia de Portugal de António José Seguro foi "excecional", entre os partidos com representação parlamentar, da esquerda à direita, a maioria também teceu elogios aos apelos, e recados, feitos pelo Presidente da República a partir dos Açores.
NASA is moving to hire a contractor to assess whether or not a Boeing 737-73W can meet its needs for a new reduced-gravity testbed aircraft. The use of planes modified for this role is now new, and they are often called “Vomit Comets” because of the extreme maneuvers they perform to simulate zero-G environments and the physical side effects this often induces. However, there’s an unusual twist here with the specific plane that NASA is now eyeing: it currently belongs to the U.S. Air Force and is part of a “classified military program.” There is a strong possibility that the aircraft in question is a mysterious 737 that the service acquired in 2020, and that has been the subject of much speculation as to its purpose ever since.
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center posted a contracting notice yesterday justifying a planned sole-source contract to Denmar Technical Services, Inc. in relation to “Reduced Gravity Modification” of the 737-73W aircraft. Earlier this year, signs had already emerged that NASA might be in line to get a heavily modified and highly secretive 737 from the Air Force, designated the NT-43A and commonly referred to by the callsign RAT55. However, yesterday’s notice does not appear to refer to the NT-43A, long used as an airborne signature measurement platform and described in the past as the world’s most secretive 737, which is based on a much older 200-series airframe. We will come back to this later on.
A stock picture of the NT-43A Radar Test Bed aircraft, also commonly known by the callsign RAT55. Phodocu
What NASA wants now
“NASA requires Denmar Technical Services, Inc. to conduct a feasibility assessment to determine the Boeing 737-73W’s suitability to perform the NASA reduced gravity mission; modify the aircraft cabin, if required, to support reduced gravity operations; perform overdue maintenance and inspections, perform airworthiness restoration tasks, and paint the aircraft exterior with NASA identifiers,” the contracting notice NASA released yesterday explains.
The notice adds that the aircraft, if modified, would be used, at least most immediately, “for the Reduced Gravity Test Bed Project in support of the agency [sic] need for performing validation testing on Space Suits in support of the Artemis program.”
Artemis is NASA’s current effort to return U.S. astronauts to the lunar surface. The Artemis II mission, conducted in April, involved the first fly-by of the Moon by a crewed spacecraft since the end of the Apollo program in the early 1970s. However, the spacecraft did not touch down on the surface. The goal now is for a crewed lunar landing to come in 2028. RAT55 was notably used to support the launch of the Artemis II mission and the subsequent recovery of the capsule after its return to Earth.
Back in January, NASA had put out a separate contracting notice calling for information about new options to provide “parabolic flight services” to simulate “reduced gravity environments, including microgravity” for testing and scientific research purposes. The Florida-based Zero-G corporation is currently the primary provider of these services to NASA, using a retrofitted Boeing 727-200 dubbed ‘G-Force One.’ You can read more about NASA’s general use of Vomit Comets in the context of that notice here.
The Boeing 737-73W under consideration to be turned into a Vomit Comet “is owned by the United States Air Force (USAF). Denmar Technical Services, Inc. has specialized knowledge of this Boeing 737-73W aircraft as they are currently contracted by the USAF to modify the aircraft under a classified military program,” the contracting notice NASA released yesterday adds. “NASA does not have a ‘need to know’ regarding the details of the current modifications being made under the USAF contract and therefore is unable to provide modification details to another contractor or provide another contractor with access to the aircraft. The USAF will transfer ownership of the aircraft to NASA upon completion of the closeout tasks.”
“Denmar Technical Services, Inc. is uniquely positioned to close out work under their existing obligations while performing the feasibility assessment, maintenance, and any modifications required under this action,” the notice continues. “Additionally, due to the constrained timeline for the NASA Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program’s space suit testing for Artemis, NASA requires the assessment and overdue maintenance to be performed immediately upon contract award and any subsequent aircraft modifications to be complete no later than October 1, 2026. The timeline can only be supported if this requirement is fulfilled concurrently with the USAF closeout tasks.”
Denmar is a small aviation firm headquartered in Reno, Nevada. At the time of writing, its website lists a wide array of specialized design, modification, flight testing, and other work among its portfolios. This includes “advanced customized mission system development” that “encompasses the design of unique airborne operator interfaces, specialized emitters and sensors, system integration, and post-mission analytics and processing.” The company also describes itself as the “Nation’s leading experts on IR [infrared] and RF [radiofrequency] survivability, signature modeling, [and] agile software development for analysis and real-world operational assessments.”
In line with all this, Denmar is understood to have been the prime contractor behind the extensive modifications to RAT55. In April, the Air Force confirmed to TWZ that the NT-43A was “being transitioned to start the next phase of its career,” as reflected by its involvement in the Artemis II mission, “after decades of flights supporting the Air Force in various roles.” The aircraft, which is understood to have long called the secretive and remote Tonopah Test Range Airport (TTR) in Nevada home, has been seen much more publicly since then.
Best views of RAT55 yet. Dorsal sensor pod (EO ball) seen in detail here. Also shot inside. I wonder if this is going to be ported in full to a contractor (it is currently operated by a contractor) https://t.co/XoE1zGFN78
However, as NASA’s recent contracting notice makes clear, the 737 it is now looking at as a potential Vomit Comet is a much newer 700-series model. TWZ has reached out to the Air Force and NASA for more information.
The curious case of N712JM
As mentioned, it is very possible, if not highly probable, that the 737 NASA is now considering turning into a Vomit Comet is one that the Air Force acquired in 2020, which TWZ explored in-depth at the time. That aircraft, which is a -73W model, is still officially on the U.S. civil register, with the registration code N712JM. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records show that the preceding owner of this aircraft was Denmar, which acquired it in 2019. The plane’s history before that is murky, with Boeing delivering it in 2013 to East West Bank via a trusteeship with Wells Fargo Bank, per the FAA’s records.
N712JM had drawn particular attention in 2020 not just because of its transfer to the Air Force, but also because it emerged at that time wearing a green protective coating and otherwise looking like it had just rolled off the production line. It also had some unusual external features that raised questions about its role, as we explored at the time.
N712JM as it was seen in 2020. Reader submission
In 2020, Jon Ostrower, long-time aviation journalist and editor-in-chief of The Air Current, told TWZ the following:
“This is definitely an airplane that never made it to a formal finish you’d expect from a commercial airplane. The green finish is a protective coating applied to fuselages during manufacturing to protect from scratches and other damage. It is dissolved during painting. You can also still see the manufacturing (line) number as well. That’s from its original trip down the assembly line. There’s also quite a bit of instrumentation visible with sensor wiring leading into the cabin through the passenger windows. This type of arrangement points to a flight test setup of some kind.”
In 2020, N712JM conducted many test flights in U.S. military ranges off the coast of Southern California, flying various flight profiles, some of them quite unusual. The aircraft flew those sorties from Santa Maria Airport in California, and used the callsign STING 38.
The 'mysterious' USAF Boeing 737-700 N712JM is just back to Santa Maria, Ca. after another 3+ hour flight as 'Sting 38'. https://t.co/3sxMyligwM
What the Air Force has been using N712JM for to date is unknown. Per FAA, the aircraft has been and continues to be registered to an address at Bolling Air Force Base (technically now part of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling) in Washington, D.C., which looks to belong to the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The RCO has headed up multiple cutting-edge, high-priority programs over the years, including the development of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber and the X-37B reusable spaceplane. A 737-based platform could be configured to support an array of different research and development and test evaluation activities that would fall under the purview of RCO, as well as other stakeholders that this office might engage with.
A screen capture of the entry for N712JM in the FAA’s online database at the time of writing. FAA capture
There has also been some speculation over the years that N712JM might have transformed into an Air Force 737 with the serial number 21-0024, but this appears to still be unconfirmed. The 21-0024 serial has more recently become associated with other shadowy 737s tied to the U.S. military, which have civilian-style paint schemes and may also be on the U.S. civil register. One of them was notably spotted in 2025 at a U.S. forward operating location in El Salvador, sitting directly alongside an Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship and a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol plane. This, in turn, raised questions about its involvement in the ongoing U.S. campaign of strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, as TWZ previously explored in detail.
21-0024, for reference. When I spotted it, FR24 was indeed calling it N712JM, though ADSBx had the BuNo and a different hex. https://t.co/3WwV3kxBC4
Interestingly, there have been several online flight tracking data ‘pings’ suggesting new activity related to N712JM at Colorado Springs Airport since at least February of this year. However, there do not appear to be any confirmed flights by the aircraft from there in that same timeframe. This airport notably sits adjacent to Peterson Space Force Base.
There is still a possibility that NASA could be looking at a different Air Force 737-73W for possible conversion into a Vomit Comet. As the contracting notice makes clear, the aircraft in question is currently in the classified realm. At the same time, this seems far less likely to be the case given everything that is known (and still unknown) about N712JM.
A separate question does exist now as to what effort the Air Force might be in the process of closing out that would allow it to transfer any classified 737 to NASA. TWZ has previously raised tangential questions about how the Air Force might fill the resulting gaps left by the highly-specialized RAT55 moving on to the next stage of its career. It is certainly interesting in its own right that NASA seems to be focused heavily at the moment on leveraging some of the most secretive 737s in existence today to support its much less sensitive needs.
More details may emerge if Denmar deems the “classified” Air Force 737 to be a suitable starting place to create a new Vomit Comet to support NASA’s reduced gravity training needs and the Artemis program.
Update: 3:45 PM EST –
In immediate response to our queries, NASA has directed us to an additional notice about the award of the sole-source contract, valued at $8.4 million, to Denmar Technical Services back on June 1.
“The contractor will modify a Boeing 737-700 aircraft to perform lunar-gravity parabolic flights to test NASA space equipment. Once modifications are complete, NASA Armstrong will own the aircraft and oversee aircraft operations out of NASA Johnson,” the notice says. “The aircraft will be used to validate astronaut lunar suits and associated crew systems required to support Artemis mission objectives. This can be done with the modified 737 aircraft in an operationally relevant, reduced-gravity environment prior to lunar mission execution.”
No mention is made here about the sourcing of the aircraft from the Air Force or its classified mission work, as outlined in the sole-source justification that was released yesterday.
Update: 6/11/2026 –
The U.S. Air Force has provided TWZ with a brief statement about the 737-73W aircraft in question.
“The Boeing 737-73W aircraft was originally procured to serve as a flying testbed,” a spokesperson for the service said. “The program ended and [the] USAF is transitioning the aircraft to NASA.”
Las células con núcleo y mitocondrias que forman el cuerpo humano no surgieron gracias a un encuentro afortunado entre una bacteria y una arquea como se creía hasta ahora, sino como resultado de un proceso gradual que probablemente duró millones de años. Es la conclusión de una investigación del Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) y del instituto IRB Barcelona que se presenta hoy en Nature y que aclara cómo se produjo uno de los cambios decisivos de la historia de la vida en la Tierra.
El físico valenciano Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT), ha ganado el premio Kavli por sus investigaciones sobre el ángulo mágico del grafeno que han sentado las bases de la nueva disciplina de la twistrónica. El reconocimiento le confirma como uno de los más firmes candidatos a ganar el Nobel de Física en los próximos años.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed a Saronic Corsair was the uncrewed surface vessel (USV) that rescued the crew of a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache out of the Gulf of Oman overnight. President Donald Trump has also now said Iranian forces downed the attack helicopter, and promised a response. This is the first known instance of a drone boat being used to recover personnel as part of a search and rescue mission, and has major implications for these operations going forward. Readers can otherwise get up to speed on what is already known about this incident in our initial reporting here.
“The surface drone that assisted in last night’s rescue of the Apache crew off the coast of Oman was a U.S. Navy Corsair unmanned surface vessel operated by U.S. 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59,” U.S. Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman, told TWZ. “The task force began fielding these drones in theater in late March.”
A top-down look at a Saronic Corsair USV. Saronic
The Navy confirmed last December that it had signed an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) deal with Saronic, valued at $392 million, for the production of Corsair USVs. The Corsair, which the manufacturer also calls an autonomous surface vessel (ASV), is a 24-foot-long drone boat with a speedboat-like design that was first unveiled in 2024. The manufacturer says it has a maximum range of 1,000 nautical miles, a top speed of 35 knots, and a 1,000-pound payload capacity.
Prototype to production in under 12 months. The @Saronic OTA proves how we’ll build a hybrid manned–unmanned Fleet: open competition, real contracts, real hardware for Sailors and Marines not slides. This is now the standard. pic.twitter.com/cC9DG7jTiW
— Archive: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan (@SecNavPhelan) December 8, 2025
The Corsair “picked them [the Apache crew] up and transported them to another location on the water where they were then hoisted up to a helicopter for further transport,” Capt. Hawkins, the CENTCOM spokesperson, added.
CENTCOM had already confirmed to TWZ and others that an unspecified USV found and rescued the two aircrew from the downed Apache. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the specific type of drone boat employed.
The Army aviators spent approximately two hours in the water before being recovered safely, according to a previous CENTCOM statement. As mentioned, President Donald Trump has also now separately said that Iranian forces were responsible for bringing down the Apache, and that a U.S. response will be forthcoming.
Trump says that Iranian forces shot down the Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter that went down over Hormuz yesterday.
Since its establishment in 2021, the Navy’s Task Force 59 has been charged with helping expand the service’s operational use of uncrewed platforms, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-driven capabilities, across the Middle East. It has operated an array of different types of USVs, as well as uncrewed aerial systems, over the years.
How many Corsairs Task Force 59 has currently, as well as their exact configuration, is unclear. Pictures and videos that Saronic has released to date have shown Corsairs fitted out primarily for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, with a camera turret on top of a central mast-like frame. A commercial navigation radar, additional cameras to help provide extra situational awareness, and various other antennas have also been seen fitted to that frame. Saronic has talked about integrating other capabilities to enable additional mission sets, including launchers for loitering munitions, in the past.
A picture showing the most typical configuration of the Corsair USV that has been seen to date. Saronic
Saronic also says Corsair has a high degree of autonomy, with the type having logged more than 100,000 nautical miles of total travel to date, including multi-day missions. The SUV is designed to be employed independently or in networked swarms, according to the company. Human operators are in the loop during these operations via datalink.
Corsair, our 24ft Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV), has officially crossed 100,000 nautical miles traveled — that’s nearly five times around the Earth or almost halfway to the Moon!
This milestone represents more than distance. It reflects relentless testing across diverse… pic.twitter.com/opXtX6jSfO
“Corsair can be given a mission, alone or as part of a collaborative swarm, and execute with minimal human interaction to deter or counter adversarial threats at a range of 1,000 nautical miles,” Saronic said in a press release back in 2024. “Employing redundant communications and passive perception capabilities, Corsair can autonomously identify, track, follow, and intercept targets in contested and communications denied environments.”
These are all capabilities well suited to the U.S. Navy’s immediate needs in the Middle East, especially in support of the current blockade of Iranian ports. Corsair would notably offer a lower-risk way to closely shadow vessels that might be attempting a run into or out of the area. Corsair’s ability to automatically spot and track objects of interest would have helped in finding and rescuing the downed Apache crew, too. It is worth noting here that automated target detection is also a key part of Corsair’s ability to safely navigate autonomously, day or night, especially in congested waterways, as seen in the video below.
In 2025, we logged more than 79,000 nautical miles and over 15,000 hours of total operations with Corsair, our 24-ft ASV. Much of this was done on our own dime, operating 6 days a week at our test sites on the West Coast, East Coast, Gulf Coast, and beyond, allowing us to… pic.twitter.com/PZETeJia17
Corsair’s overall performance in the Middle East could easily translate to further operational use of this USV by the Navy globally. The service has particularly significant demands for persistent maritime surveillance and reconnaissance capacity, as well as just general presence, across the broad expanses of the Pacific. One of the key benefits that USVs offer is the ability to provide additional distributed ‘mass’ at relatively low cost. This can help bolster the capabilities of crewed platforms they are networked together with or just ease the operational strain on those assets.
The Navy has now also clearly demonstrated how valuable USVs could be in future maritime search-and-rescue operations worldwide. This, in turn, underscores the benefits uncrewed platforms bring to these missions, especially in the face of growing anti-air and other threats.
As we already wrote today:
“As TWZ regularly highlights, search and rescue operations present inherent complexities and risks, especially when conducted in or near hostile territory. The F-15E rescue effort in Iran put a particular spotlight on the immense risks that combat search and rescue (CSAR) forces take, with helicopters and C-130 variants sent into areas where even a high-end fighter aircraft didn’t survive.”
“Open-water recoveries can present distinct additional challenges. There is always the possibility of the loss of additional assets and personnel in the process, no matter where a CSAR mission occurs.”
US Air Force HH-60W Jolly Green II search-and-rescue helicopters refuel from an HC-130J Combat King II aircraft. USAF
“The use of a Navy drone boat in the rescue overnight highlights a new dimension for maritime CSAR going forward. These uncrewed assets can be more readily pre-positioned in a distributed manner. For example, in the broad expanse of the Pacific, USVs could be forward-deployed at multiple points along certain flight paths for this exact purpose. USVs could offer other distinct advantages in certain scenarios where they might be able to get into areas where traditional assets cannot and without risking additional personnel. These realities extend well beyond the maritime domain, and we are only likely to see uncrewed platforms of all kinds increasingly taking part in rescue efforts, especially in denied areas. The U.S. military is coming to terms with just how vulnerable their CSAR assets are and the ranges that would be needed to access highly defended areas, especially during a peer fight. Using drones to execute personnel recovery is being viewed as one part of a larger set of solutions to this pressing problem.“
The additional detail we have now that the Corsair USV brought the downed aircraft to a territorial location, where they were then hoisted into a helicopter, is notable, too. This further shows how uncrewed platforms could be used as part of a distributed hub-and-spoke-style concept of operations for future rescue missions, which could increase flexibility and total area covered. USVs could be used to penetrate into especially high-threat areas, recover personnel, and then bring them to crewed assets at safer locations to the rear, as well.
“When it comes to search and rescue, you utilize the best asset that is the closest and the quickest, and that was the case in this instance,” CENTCOM’s Hawkins also told The Wall Street Journal today. “We’ve practiced this scenario in exercises, but not quite necessarily like this.”
The first Marauder prototype seen being launched earlier this year. Saronic
The Navy is already set to evaluate Marauder, as well as designs from six other companies, as part of the first round of prototyping under its latest Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) effort. This is part of a larger strategy the service rolled out in March to try to field more USVs and do so faster, as you can read more about here.
In the meantime, Saronic’s Corsair is already being employed operationally in the Middle East and demonstrating its ability to perform complex missions.
Sean Strickland claims he was not cleared to attend the UFC event because he ‘made fun of Israel and Epstein’
The only current men’sUS UFC champion says he has been barred from Sunday’s fight card on the south lawn of the White House because he dared to criticize Donald Trump, Israel and Jeffrey Epstein.
On Tuesday night, middleweight champion Sean Strickland wrote on X that he had been informed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that he had not been cleared to attend the event by the White House.
Only 24 hours remain before the World Cup kicks off in Mexico and the country is going though its final dress rehearsals. Preventing demonstrations on opening day is already a pipe dream: negotiations with teachers have stalled and search groups will march to make their missing relatives visible. With everyone in position and the cards on the table, attention is focused on avoiding the worst-case scenario for the government of Claudia Sheinbaum — an image of a police officer striking a teacher circling the globe on the day the country is playing for its international image. The concern is not unfounded: on the first day of protests a teacher lost an eye in clashes with police. The past two weeks have tested containment measures, and Wednesday will be the last chance to fine-tune the public staging. To ease the pressure, authorities have canceled classes for Thursday and ordered remote work for public servants.
No siempre es así, pero a veces el sentido común se impone. Es lo que ha sucedido afortunadamente con el caso de Carme López, de 96 años y que vive sola. Casi ciega (ve sombras), padece sordera, tiene insuficiencia cardiaca, muy mala circulación en las piernas, usa un caminador para desplazarse por casa, no sale a la calle si no es acompañada, le traen la comida a casa y se la preparan (no puede hacerlo sola), también la duchan (tampoco puede hacerlo por sí misma)… A pesar de esta ristra de dolencias, Drets Socials le denegó este mismo año el grado de II de dependencia, como explicó La Vanguardia en abril. No obstante, ahora el mismo departament ha rectificado y se lo acaba de otorgar. La familia está muy feliz.
La noche del 23 de junio no sólo se asocia popularmente con ser la más corta, sino también, sobre todo, con la verbena de San Juan, uno de los eventos más especiales del año. Entre hogueras y deseos al fuego, celebra la llegada del solsticio de verano y se presenta como una ocasión perfecta para descorchar vinos ahumados.
El inmunólogo Gabriel Rabinovich, del CaixaResearch Institute (CRI), desarrollará una nueva inmunoterapia contra el cáncer de páncreas en una investigación financiada por la Fundación FERO Cáncer, que destinará al proyecto 300.000 euros aportados por la Fundación Gandara.
Lawmakers warn appointment of presidential loyalist will scuttle bipartisan agreement to renew Fisa surveillance law
Donald Trump stood firm on his decision to install the controversial loyalist Bill Pulte as the country’s top intelligence official, demanding Congress pass a short-term extension of a surveillance law set to expire amid intense criticism of the appointment.
Pulte has been asked “to execute the immediate and needed downsizing” of the office of the director of national intelligence, the US president declared on Wednesday, after lining him up to serve as acting director on a temporary basis.
"Si lo sabía todo, tendrá que dimitir por corrupción. Y si no lo sabía, tendrá que dimitir por incompetente", le ha espetado Feijóo al presidente
La Fiscalía General tuvo dos reuniones con un abogado y Leire Díez donde presentaron denuncias contra el fiscal Grinda
El halo de la visita del papa se esfumó pronto del Congreso de los Diputados para dar paso a otra batalla sin cuartel en la sesión de control de este miércoles. El líder del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ha exigido a Sánchez acabar “con esta basura” y convocar elecciones “para darle la voz a los españoles” a cuenta de los casos de corrupción del PSOE. “Es evidente que usted no tiene límites. Al final sí que pasará a la historia. Lo hará como inductor, financiador y beneficiado del caso de corrupción más grave de nuestra democracia”.
“Su gestapillo no será recordada por su pericia ni por sus éxitos”, ha incidido Feijóo, que ha señalado directamente a Sánchez. “La financiación de las primarias con dinero de la prostitución. Y usted no sabía nada. Sus dos manos derechas competían por el dinero de las mordidas en obra pública. Y usted no sabía nada. Corrían billetes por Ferraz y se pagaban orgías y cloacas con dinero público. Y usted no sabía nada. La SEPI rescataba empresas a través del tráfico de influencias. Y usted no sabía nada. Zapatero parece que era la joya de una trama internacional corrupta. Y usted no sabía nada. ¿Pero usted no se cansa de tomarle el pelo a los españoles? ¿Pero a quién se cree que está gobernando? Si lo sabía todo, tendrá que dimitir por corrupción. Y si no lo sabía, tendrá que dimitir por incompetente”, le ha espetado al presidente, al que se ha referido por sus iniciales, P.S, en referencia a las agendas de Leire Díez.
“Yo asumo mis errores, pero jamás voy a asumir su grado de hipocresía ni lecciones del partido de la Púnica, de la Gürtel, de la Kitchen, de la Policía Patriótica, del partido de Marcial Dorado”, ha contestado Pedro Sánchez, que ha acusado a Feijóo de no ser un líder político con las manos libres. “El problema es que usted no tiene voz propia. Usted es la voz de sus amos. Y yo ya sé que somos incómodos. Este Gobierno es incómodo para sus amos, para aquellos que ven mal el que se suba el salario mínimo interprofesional, que se revalorice las pensiones, que se fortalezca el Estado del bienestar, que se aprueben leyes que benefician a la convivencia territorial y no a la confrontación territorial, que es donde ustedes están siempre instalados”.
“Llevan ocho años haciendo oposición marrullera. Sigan con sus maniobras, todas las que quieran, que nosotros seguiremos gobernando todos los años que quieran los españoles hasta 2027 y mucho más allá. Y le diré una cosa, señoría. Si quiere jugar a las siglas, pregunte primero quién es M.Rajoy”, le ha respondido al líder del PP, a quien ha recordado que la sede de Ferraz “no está pagada con dinero negro” como la de la calle Génova.
A Sánchez le acompañaron en la bancada del Gobierno durante su intercambio de reproches con Feijóo varios de los pesos pesados de su Ejecutivo, incluidos los vicepresidentes primero y tercera, Carlos Cuerpo y Sara Aagesen. No estuvo presente, por el contrario, la vicepresidenta segunda, Yolanda Díaz, que optó por no acudir a la sesión de control y evitó por segundo día consecutivo pronunciarse sobre las acusaciones conocidas el martes de maltrato laboral —que ella niega— contra la líder de Movimiento Sumar, Lara Hernández, mano derecha de Díaz en lo orgánico. Fuentes del Ministerio de Trabajo argumentan que la ausencia de la vicepresidenta en la Cámara Baja se debe a que tiene “varias reuniones” fijadas este miércoles por la mañana.
Entre 1933 y 1945, los nazis gobernaron Alemania bajo el férreo liderazgo de Adolf Hitler, marcando una de las etapas más oscuras de la historia moderna. Este régimen no solo se definió por su brutalidad y sus crímenes de guerra, sino también por una fascinación casi obsesiva con el ocultismo, la mitología germánica y el esoterismo. Para Hitler y muchos de sus colaboradores más cercanos, estas creencias no eran simples distracciones; formaban parte de un esfuerzo deliberado por construir una narrativa mística que legitimara su ideología y fortaleciera la lealtad de sus seguidores.
Uno de los principales arquitectos de esta visión fue Heinrich Himmler, jefe de las temidas SS, quien veía en las leyendas y los mitos europeos una herramienta para dotar al Tercer Reich de un halo de poder sobrenatural. Himmler estaba convencido de que objetos como el Santo Grial, el cáliz que utilizó Cristo en la Última Cena antes de que lo crucificaran, podían no solo simbolizar la supremacía del pueblo germánico, sino también otorgar un poder real en la guerra. Su obsesión lo llevó a financiar expediciones de la Ahnenerbe, una organización pseudocientífica que buscaba reliquias y rastros arqueológicos que respaldaran las fantasías nazis.
Himmler en Montserrat
En octubre de 1940, durante un viaje a España que coincidió con la reunión entre Hitler y Franco en Hendaya, Himmler visitó Montserrat, el emblemático monasterio catalán situado en un macizo montañoso de aspecto casi mágico. La Ahnenerbe había interpretado que referencias en el himno del monasterio, el Virolai, aludían a una “fuente de vida” que podría ser el Santo Grial. Además, algunos textos de la época sugerían que Montserrat, y no Montsegur en los Pirineos franceses, era el verdadero lugar de descanso del mítico cáliz.
Acompañado por un séquito de oficiales nazis, llegó a la abadía interesándose por el paradero del Grial. Los monjes, desconcertados por la visita, aseguraron no tener conocimiento alguno sobre la existencia de la reliquia. El padre Andreu Ripoll, el único que hablaba alemán, intentó razonar con Himmler y explicarle que no había evidencias históricas que respaldaran sus teorías. Sin embargo, el líder nazi no quedó satisfecho y abandonó el lugar frustrado, sin haber encontrado lo que buscaba.
La visita de Himmler a Montserrat no fue un hecho aislado. En sus intentos por encontrar el Grial, los nazis financiaron investigaciones y exploraciones desde Islandia hasta los Pirineos. Antes de Himmler, Otto Rahn, un filólogo alemán fascinado por la mitología medieval, había rastreado la copa de Cristo en las montañas francesas. Rahn cayó en desgracia al descubrirse su ascendencia judía y su homosexualidad, pero sus teorías influenciaron profundamente a Himmler.
Este episodio, aunque pueda parecer anecdótico, revela hasta qué punto el régimen nazi intentó manipular la historia y los mitos para justificar su ideología y crear una narrativa de poder.
A la Sagrada Família, impulsada por la Asociación espiritual de Devotos de san José, se la denominó desde sus inicios “templo expiatorio” porque tenía como objetivo buscar el perdón de los pecados y las ofensas anticlericales que proliferaban en la Barcelona de finales del XIX. En 1881 esta asociación compró una manzana del Eixample, en lo que entonces aún era término municipal de Sant Martí de Provençals -se agregó a Barcelona en 1897-, y al año siguiente el obispo José María Urquinaona bendijo la primera piedra. En aquel momento el Papa era León XIII.
El juez solicita detalles de unos encuentros con el jefe de la Secretaría Técnica que llegaron precedidos de una decena de escritos de queja o recursos del empresario Pérez Dolset por los mismos hechos
Todas las promesas incumplidas de Leire Díez: ni “exterminar” jueces, ni “destruir” investigaciones
La exmilitante socialista Leire Díez, imputada por supuestos delitos relacionados con sus maniobras para buscar irregularidades en la actuación de los jefes de la UCO o de la Fiscalía Anticorrupción que investigaban a dirigentes socialistas, apuntó en su agenda personal una reunión con la Fiscalía General del Estado el 19 de febrero de 2025. El juez Santiago Pedraz, que dirige la investigación en la Audiencia Nacional, ha solicitado a esta institución un informe sobre esos supuestos encuentros.
elDiario.es ha confirmado en fuentes próximas a la trama investigada que se produjeron dos reuniones con el teniente fiscal de la Secretaría Técnica de la Fiscalía General del Estado, Diego Villafañe, en la que estuvieron presentes el abogado Jacobo Teijelo, con quien se había concertado la cita, y la exmilitante socialista Leire Díez, que le acompañó.
El abogado Teijelo denunció en el primer encuentro mantenido en la Fiscalía General del Estado las numerosas irregularidades supuestamente cometidas por el fiscal Anticorrupción, José Grinda, en algunos procedimientos judiciales. Entre las causas penales que citó figura una pieza separada del caso Tándem en la que está imputado por fraude en las subvenciones el empresario Javier Pérez Dolset, cliente de Teijelo; o la que llevó a la cárcel a Sandro Rosell, el expresidente del F. C. Barcelona, absuelto tras pasar 643 días en prisión preventiva.
La Secretaría Técnica de la Fiscalía General del Estado reclamó en la primera de las reuniones, según cuenta el entorno de la trama de Leire Díez, documentación en la que se basaba la denuncia contra Grinda, por lo que se concertó una segunda cita para entregar las supuestas pruebas que pudieran avalar el relato de Teijelo. Entre esas pruebas llevaron grabaciones del supuesto montaje que terminó con Sandro Rosell en prisión o la supuesta desaparición de pruebas relevantes en el caso por el que estaba imputado Pérez Dolset. La Fiscalía General del Estado ha preferido guardar silencio sobre estas citas.
El abogado Jacobo Teijelo es ahora es uno de los dos letrados que defienden a Santos Cerdán, el ex secretario de Organización del PSOE imputado en el caso de supuesto amaño de obras públicas del Ministerio de Transportes que investiga la Audiencia Nacional. El fiscal Villafañe llegó a estar imputado en el caso que acabó con la condena del fiscal general del Estado, Álvaro García Ortiz, y su causa fue archivada en la fase de instrucción sin llegar a juicio.
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Teijelo fue también el abogado que convocó en su despacho una reunión con empresarios de hidrocarburos imputados por fraude fiscal en la que estuvieron Pérez Dolset y Díez. En esa reunión, grabada y filtrada por uno de sus participantes, la trama se interesaba por la existencia de trapos sucios del teniente coronel de la Guardia Civil Antonio Balas, jefe de las principales investigaciones contra dirigentes corruptos socialistas.
La Fiscalía General del Estado ha registrado y tramitado desde 2022 numerosas denuncias por escrito, principalmente firmadas por Pérez Dolset, contra el fiscal anticorrupción, José Grinda, o su jefe, Alejandro Luzón, por diversas irregularidades en la investigación de causas penales vinculadas a la denominada Operación Cataluña y otras. Todas esas denuncias por destrucción de pruebas o revelación de secretos acabaron archivadas tras una rápida tramitación por la Fiscalía General del Estado, que las derivó en algunos casos a la Fiscalía provincial o a la Fiscalía superior de la Comunidad de Madrid..
La trama que investiga la Audiencia Nacional, cuyos principales integrantes serían Pérez Dolset y Leire Díez, asegura que nunca en todo este tiempo tuvo contacto con el ex fiscal general del Estado Álvaro García Ortiz. Y denuncia una vez más la inactividad de esa institución para investigar las supuestas irregularidades existentes en algunas causas que son competencia de la Fiscalía Anticorrupción.
El PSOE puso a disposición de la Fiscalía General del Estado un archivo con documentos y grabaciones que había entregado Leire Díez el mismo día que formalizó su baja como militante del PSOE. Ese archivo incluía numerosa documentación de las múltiples denuncias presentadas desde 2022 hasta 2025 en la Fiscalía General del Estado. El análisis de ese archivo, derivado a la Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional, tampoco dio lugar a nuevas investigaciones sobre lo denunciado por la exmilitante socialista.
Entre las maniobras de Leire Díez, la investigación judicial también señala una reunión para buscar información comprometedora del fiscal jefe Anticorrupción, Alejandro Luzón. Díez se citó con Ignacio Stampa, el fiscal que impulsó en Anticorrupción decenas de piezas separadas del caso Tándem, la investigación de la mafia policial que encabezaba el comisario José Manuel Villarejo y que durante años hizo la guerra sucia a los adversarios políticos del PP.
El encuentro, promovido por Javier Pérez Dolset con la ayuda del empresario Luis del Rivero, fue grabado por Stampa, quien presentó una denuncia algún tiempo después. Leire Díez llegó a comprometerse con el fiscal en devolverle a la plaza que perdió a cambio de información sobre los motivos por los que el jefe de Anticorrupción, Alejandro Luzón, había dejado morir determinadas investigaciones judiciales del caso Tándem. El fiscal no ofreció ninguna información y tampoco creyó aquella promesa de quien se presentó como “la mano derecha de Santos Cerdán”. La persona encargada de recuperarle para ocupar un puesto en Anticorrupción era el fiscal general del Estado, Álvaro García Ortiz, a quien Stampa llevaba años denunciando como el culpable de la pérdida de su plaza. Leire Díez nunca hizo gestiones para cumplir con lo prometido a Stampa, al menos según la investigación que acaba de iniciar la Audiencia Nacional.
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