The United States economy grew at an annualized rate of 2% in the first quarter of the year. In this way, it gained momentum after a poor final quarter of 2025, when it ended with a GDP of 0.5% due to the government shutdown.
Javier Bardem has expressed words of gratitude to the Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, who at the press conference of the jury members of the official section of the Cannes festival, defended that the Spanish actor, like Susan Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo, raised their voices publicly in support of Gaza and harshly criticized the American industry for the alleged professional reprisals against the three actors. “I sent him a message through a mutual friend thanking him and also Laverty has always been an artistic and personal reference,” the Oscar-winning actor confessed to a small group of journalists during an interview about his role in El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which is competing for the Palme d’Or and is officially presented this afternoon at the French festival.
Israel momentarily looks away from Iran, stuck in an agreement that has not been reached with the United States, and refocuses on its two main nearby fronts: Gaza and Lebanon.
“I am wearing a kufiya that I have borrowed from the Palestinian people so I don’t burn my head because after chemo I have lost my hair, dear undocumented sir. Kisses.” This is how the former Andalusian parliamentarian and Adelante Andalucía candidate in 2022 for the presidency of the Junta, Teresa Rodríguez, responded to a derogatory tweet, now deleted, during the Andalusian election day.
One week after the judicial tsunami that ended a president’s prestige in minutes, I continue, like many Spaniards, wondering at what point José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero underwent such a transformation that those who knew him, we knew him, do not recognize him in the ruling…
When Andrea Fuentes, coach of the Spanish artistic swimming team, heard Rosalía’s ‘Berghain,’ she considered making her team’s new creative proposal revolve around that piece to continue revolutionizing the world of artistic swimming. And she changed the initial plan. She discarded keeping the choreography that won two bronzes in 2025, at the European Artistic Swimming Championships in Funchal (Portugal) and at the World Swimming Championships in Singapore, to the rhythm of Lady Gaga’s ‘Abracadabra’ and created a new choreography. Spain will officially debut its new routine in exactly two weeks at the 2026 Artistic Swimming World Cup in Pontevedra, which will be held from May 29 to 31.
The National Police have arrested at least ten people in a large-scale anti-jihadist operation carried out in several provinces, including Barcelona, according to sources close to the investigation cited by EFE.
Natural, spontaneous, friendly, uninhibited and also, as he is, a bit playful. For the first time since he got injured against Celta on April 22, Lamine Yamal explained how he experienced the moment he got injured at the Spotify Camp Nou and what he felt in the hours afterward. He does not hide the panic that overwhelmed him at that moment at the possibility of missing the World Cup. After taking and scoring the penalty in which he suffered the injury, Lamine experienced fear. “I remember the sequence in which I got injured. I was praying inside that it was nothing, that it was a cramp or something, because I saw myself very close to the World Cup moment. I was afraid it was very serious or that I could relapse and miss the World Cup,” said the Barcelona forward in statements to the Spanish Federation media.
Sanoma, a Finnish group in education and media, has acquired the historic publishing house Vicens Vives. The transaction had been in the works for months due to the delicate situation faced by the family business, which for decades has been a benchmark in the Catalan educational world. According to a statement to the Helsinki Stock Exchange, the operation is valued at around 40 million euros and takes into account the value of the net debt, which would be close to 30 million euros, market sources indicate.
The Israeli flag already flies atop Beaufort Castle, the main lookout of southern Lebanon. The fortress, built 900 years ago during the Crusaders’ advance towards Jerusalem, is a symbolic but also strategic conquest for the Israeli Army, which is already advancing into Lebanese territory beyond the Litani River.