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President Donald Trump marked his first 100 days in office with an event outside Detroit that had all the hallmarks of a campaign rally as an adoring crowd cheered on its leader. “It’s not that I support him 100 percent, I support him 1 million percent,” said one attendee.

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Meanwhile, Mark Carney's victory at the polls in Canada, where the Liberals had been trailing the Conservatives for months, shows how Trump's aggressive rhetoric is having a boomerang effect.

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Elsewhere in the world, Spain and Portugal were left in the dark for hours on Monday after a massive, mysterious blackout wiped out power across the Iberian Peninsula. Experts are still seeking answers as to what caused a worst-case scenario that engineers had only seen before in simulations.

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This week we also bring you a special Who's Who of the 134 cardinals who will elect the new pope in the Vatican, and a column by Harvard scholar Evgeny Morozov about how tech oligarchs are working to impose their prophetic visions on the world.

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We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS USA Edition.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has disrupted the global geopolitical and financial landscape. His brutal and chaotic style of governance has turned the United States into the primary factor destabilizing markets and international diplomatic relations..

The influential philosopher warns of the president’s offensive to expand the limits of presidential power and laments that ‘a return to normalcy will be very difficult’

The advisor is amassing even more power in Donald Trump’s second turn in the White House, reaffirming the immigration agenda as a matter of national security

Mark Carney’s Liberals win the election, spurred by public outrage against Trump

Energy experts were surprised by the inability to isolate the blackout to a single area, forcing the system to be rebooted from scratch, but they say restoration of service was quick given the circumstances

Meet all the cardinals: find out who appointed them, which dioceses they come from, and their chances of succeeding Pope Francis

The oracles of Silicon Valley want to enforce the futures they once envisioned. First, they sold us an idea of the world. Now, they intend to implement it — reshaping laws, institutions, and cultural expectations until their private fantasies become reality

Spaniard Carlos Mallo received the Goldman Prize this week, considered the Nobel Prize of environmentalism: ‘Tourism is the main factor damaging the islands’

The ‘Lord of the Rings’ star has returned to photocalls for her role in the latest Marvel film, but for the past five years she has prioritized