Puerto Rico

Sue O’Connell sat down with Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo to talk about the recently proposed Self Determination Act and how it could reshape Puerto Rico’s relationship with the U.S.

A new fellowship co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will provide $25,000 for emerging and established Puerto Rican writers.

The IRS extended the federal tax deadline to May 17, 2021, but when is the last day Americans can realistically wait to file their taxes?

Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo turned himself in to federal agents Sunday night to face federal charges just hours after authorities identified the body of a dead woman as his 27-year-old pregnant lover, officials said.

Cobertura en vivo.

An investigation is underway after the burned body of a missing Delaware man was found in Puerto Rico over the weekend.

Puerto Rico’s population fell 11.8 percent to 3.3 million over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.

The administration of former President Donald Trump obstructed an investigation looking into why officials withheld about $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico following the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, one of the deadliest U.S. natural disasters in over 100 years, a new report says.

Puerto Rico’s governor says officials will start vaccinating all those 16 and older on April 12, an unexpected move that prompted celebrations across a U.S. territory facing a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Some cities are offering up to $16,000 in cash incentives for people to move there, according to MakeMyMove.com.

Travelers from three new states no longer need to quarantine when they arrive in Massachusetts starting Saturday, health officials announced Friday. Missouri, Oregon and Washington state were designated lower-risk states Friday. Puerto Rico and Hawaii had been the only locations in the United States considered low-enough risk for quarantine-free travel. The change for travelers from Missouri, Oregon and Washington goes…

Travelers from one more state must quarantine when they arrive in Massachusetts starting Saturday, health officials have announced. North Dakota, which had been added to the low-risk list of Massachusetts’ COVID travel order two weeks ago, was taken off again Friday. That leaves Puerto Rico and Hawaii as the only locations in the United States considered low-enough risk for quarantine-free…

For the first time in months, Massachusetts changed which U.S. states and territories people can travel from without quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Puerto Rico and North Dakota were added to the low-risk list of Massachusetts’ COVID travel order. Hawaii had been the only state considered low-enough risk for quarantine-free travel since the end of November. The...

A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico was sentenced Monday to three years’ probation, according to justice officials. Salvatore “Sam” Anello, of Valparaiso, Indiana, had pleaded guilty in the case in October 2020. Defense attorney Michael Winkleman has said Anello…

A settlement has been reached in one of the largest lawsuits filed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act over providing Spanish-language ballots and assistance to Puerto Rican voters in 32 Florida counties. The settlement provides for Spanish language ballots, election material, hotlines, options on websites, assistance at polls, and signs at election supervisors’ offices. “We’re very pleased with what the…

Over the past three years, the island of Puerto Rico has faced mounting disasters – the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017, several large earthquakes and aftershocks in 2020, and, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic. The disasters have left non-profit animal rescue groups like Animal Lighthouse Rescue with a big problem on their hands as the population of stray dogs, called…

Thousands of Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs are snorting and squealing their way across Puerto Rico in what many fear has become an unstoppable quest to eat and reproduce.

Vaccinations against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico officially began on Tuesday at Ashford Hospital in San Juan.

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As Georgia’s GOP Sen. David Perdue was forced into a runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff, Republicans warned about what is at stake in the coming election: statehood for Puerto Rico, NBC News reports.