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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An online scam that targeted Puerto Rican agencies attempted to steal more than $4 million, police said Thursday, deepening concerns about the management of local government finances during an economic crisis. Authorities have frozen at least $2.9 million, said an official who was not authorized to comment on the […]

A video has gone viral of students at a California High School chanting  a xenophobic phrase during a basketball game. Righetti High School students were taunting the St. Joseph High School basketball team, which has three players from Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory, and one from France, according to the Santa Maria Times. The […]

PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Antonetti family sat in the shade of a tree eating orange slices while contemplating the long day ahead of them in a dusty parking lot in southern Puerto Rico. Behind them stood their temporary home: a four-door compact car whose back seat is reserved for 89-year-old Luis Antonetti and […]

A Purdue University engineering student says he wasn’t able to buy any cold medicine thanks to an ignorant CVS worker in Indiana. He was required to show his ID to purchase the cold medicine, which is normal, but what happened next is crazy. The clerk looked at his ID and said he needed to show […]

Thank God Hurricane Dorrian missed Puerto Rico! It turned to the right, so the people on the island are okay! But of course Trump decided to be rude and attack the Mayor of San Juan. He used the same insults like, “you’re a loser” and “Your government is failing.” He should come up with something […]

Today is a big day for Puerto Ricans as they brace for the impact of yet another big storm. Instead of offering support and compassion Donald Trump took to twitter with more lies. He tweeted “Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto […]

A New Haven Puerto Rico Festival continued its celebration as usual, despite a social media threat from a white man who was posing as a Black man at the time. The New Haven Register reports, 53-year-old Jeffrey Hanson, was arrested for one count of second-degree breach of peace after posting on a fake Facebook page […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez became Puerto Rico’s new governor Wednesday, just the second woman to hold the office, after weeks of political turmoil and hours after the island’s Supreme Court declared Pedro Pierluisi’s swearing-in a week ago unconstitutional. Accompanied by her husband, Judge Jorge Díaz, and one of her […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s political crisis appeared to deepen on Wednesday as the island’s outgoing governor and legislators — including those from his own party — clashed over who should be the next leader of a U.S. territory unbalanced by massive protests. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced that he had chosen Puerto […]

I am on my way to Indianapolis in just a few hours to speak for the National Urban League and would love to see you or your family if you are anywhere near the convention. There’s a lot going on in the world right now but this morning I want to break down two very […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced late Wednesday that he will resign Aug. 2, conceding power after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers. A crowd of thousands outside the […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There are “a million things” the cruise company could have done to prevent the death of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico, the toddler’s mother said in an interview broadcast Monday. Speaking publicly for the first time since […]