SpaceX, the rocket and satellite company led by Elon Musk, filed on Wednesday for an initial public offering (IPO), paving the way for one of the most anticipated stock market debuts of the year and expected to raise a record amount.
The Spanish-Mexican philosopher Carissa Véliz burst onto the public debate in 2020 with her book Privacy Is Power (Debate), in which she detailed how governments and companies continuously obtain data from us in a surveillance society. Next June she will publish Prophecy (Debate), which the author herself defines as “a reflection on the uses and abuses of prediction, from the Oracle of Delphi to artificial intelligence, because although the technology is very different, the political role it is playing is actually very similar.”
Almost all autonomous communities under the common regime are halting the tax cuts they approved in previous years. The years are coming to an end when the prevailing trend was to approve reductions in transferred taxes, such as in the IRPF, inheritance and donations, or wealth tax. The current trend is quite the opposite, warns the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (Airef) in its latest report. The only exception is Madrid, which continues to increase its tax reductions.
The doctrine of climate justice is gaining ground in the world of international politics. And in this case, hand in hand with a small island state in the Pacific, Vanuatu. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday, May 20, in favor of an agreement to implement strong measures to mitigate climate change, despite diplomatic efforts by the United States to have the measure withdrawn. The resolution was driven by Vanuatu and twelve other countries and seeks to implement the obligations for States established last year by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding climate change.
In Catalonia, and during the board meeting in which the congress of the Catalan PP was formally convened, the secretary general of the popular party, Miguel Tellado, took advantage of the platform to unleash all the artillery against Sánchez’s partners, naming Junts, ERC, and the PNV one by one. After a week marked by the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the PP leader stated that the aforementioned parties “are as rotten as Pedro Sánchez’s Government.”
Alfonso Gómez, until now responsible for Telefónica Hispanoamérica’s businesses, will be the new CEO of Movistar+ replacing Daniel Domenjó, who was one of Marc Murtra’s first hires at the company.
The Pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops) is the oldest pyramid built in Giza (Cairo). More than two million carefully carved and placed stone blocks were raised about 4,600 years ago from a base of 230 meters per side to reach a height of 146 meters on the northwest part of the plateau.
The Management of Renault Spain and the trade unions UGT, CCOO, and SCP have reached today a preliminary agreement on wage costs, flexibility, employment, and social aspects, among others, which brings the allocation of five new models closer to the Spanish factories of the group, according to a statement from the French automaker.
The Sectoral Conference on Housing and Urban Agenda held this morning in Madrid has approved the State Housing Plan 2026-2030 (PEV), with a total investment of 7 billion euros. Of this amount, 60% (4.2 billion) will be contributed by the ministry and the remaining 40% (2.8 billion) by the autonomous communities. The Government of Spain and the autonomous communities and cities have reached an agreement after almost a year of work in this morning’s meeting, despite some disagreements from the autonomous communities.
A Louisiana father shot and killed eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family Sunday morning that spanned two homes in a Shreveport neighborhood shocked by one of the country’s deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. Two women, including the attacker’s wife —the children’s mother—, were also seriously injured, according to Chris Bordelon, a spokesperson for the Shreveport Police Department. Authorities noted that the children —all killed in the same house— were between 3 and 11 years old. The attacker, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police chase that ended when officers opened fire on him, according to Bordelon.