Charisma or cash: to win an election, candidates need at least one of those two factors. With two weeks to go until the U.S. midterm elections, Republicans are throwing everything they have into the closest states to try to climb back in polls that are unfavorable to them. They have the invaluable help of the vast sums Donald Trump raises through his Super PAC, the political action committee that pools donations coming from the ultraconservative MAGA movement.

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About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.) On the other side of the world, a different group of hunters was setting up camp on a ridge above the Tanana River, in […]

Hace unos 13.800 años, los cazadores magdalenienses del norte de España todavía frecuentaban la cueva de Altamira, en Cantabria, cuya entrada se hundiría hacia 13.000 años atrás. Al otro lado del planeta, otro grupo de cazadores levantaba un campamento en una loma sobre el río Tanana, en el interior de Alaska, con un gran horno […]

President Donald Trump said Taiwan had agreed to buy 30% of the liquefied natural gas from a planned project in Alaska for 20 years, even as Taipei indicated that no binding commitments have been finalized.