The 3.4 million U.S. citizens on the Caribbean island of Puerto Ricans will vote today, for the fifth time, on a non-binding referendum to become independent or to apply to be America’s 51st state, despite already declaring bankruptcy last month.
Investigators said the trafficked women – who were shipped in from Central and South America – were forced to have sex with over 100 men per week.
Goya Foods has called it a “business decision” not to sponsor New York’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade for the first time in its 60-year history after organizers announced they would honor prolific terrorist Oscar López Rivera at the event.
San Juan – Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello made headlines in the territory when he defended the island’s request for more Medicaid funding after President Donald Trump blasted the proposal as a “bailout.” But behind the scenes, the governor is working closely with the Trump administration to win more fiscal support.
Puerto Rico is set to file the largest public sector bankruptcy in history after vulture capitalist hedge funds that bought big pieces of the island’s $73 billion in defaulted debt for pennies-on the-dollar refused to take $24 billion haircut.
The mosquitos that can carry the Zika virus have reportedly appeared in 129 California cities. With cold winter weather the only major obstacle to the Zika virus becoming America’s first pandemic since the 1957 Asian Flu, ground zero for a potential pandemic is now the West Coast.
A man in Puerto Rico was sentenced to seven years in prison for allegedly biting off the head of his girlfriend’s Chihuahua and punching his girlfriend.
During Monday’s World Baseball Classic semifinal between Puerto Rico and Netherlands, one player for Netherlands learned a lesson about celebrating. Jurickson Profar laced a single to right field and advanced Andrelton Simmons to third. The throw from the right fielder
Oscar López Rivera, the mastermind of Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, placed more than 130 bombs throughout the United States, most concentrated in New York and Chicago.
Esteban Santiago Ruiz, the gunman who killed five and injured six in Fort Lauderdale Airport last week, had previously booked a flight to New York on December 31, but he canceled the flight and flew to Florida instead.
Twenty states this week began implementing minimum wage increases that are supposed to help 4.3 million workers. However, the damage from a prior minimum wage hike includes bankrupting of Puerto Rico.
All 3.5 million Puerto Ricans residents were without power for a second day Thursday following a fire at the grossly inefficient and allegedly corrupt government-owned electrical utility.
The Obama administration has picked seven people to serve on a financial control board overseeing the restructuring of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt burden and $43 billion unfunded pension liability. Under congressional legislation signed after the island
With a Congressionally appointed federal control board about to take over Puerto Rico’s finances, the U.S. territory just admitted that its massively spiked public pension plan owes another $43 billion.
Miami-Dade County officials have announced that they will use aerial insecticides in affected neighborhoods of Miami to combat the Zika virus, though such measures are typically only marginally effective in killing aedes aegypti, the mosquito responsible for carrying Zika. The number of mosquito-contracted local cases of infection has now risen to 15.
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Despite Congress being ready to pass special legislation to restructure its $70 billion in debt, the Governor of Puerto Rico announced that the U.S. Territory will default on July 1.
Senate conservatives lost their fight to protect investors when the Senate passed the Puerto Rico default bill, by 60 to 30 votes, on Wednesday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed that six infants have been born in U.S. states with birth defects following their mother’s infection with the Zika virus. 234 women in the continental United States have tested positive for Zika.
An official at the Ministry of Development and Social Integration in Jalisco, Mexico, was fired after lamenting that the death toll in Sunday’s jihadist attack on the Pulse LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was lower than it could have been. “Too bad it was 50, not 100,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
In his weekly address released Saturday morning, President Barack Obama Puerto Rico’s economic crisis by asking Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to give Puerto Rico the tools it needs to restructure its $2 billion debt. Transcript as follows: Hi, everybody. Today, I
The U.S. House passed the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA) debt crisis legislation on Thursday by a 297-127 vote. The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate, where there appears to be a similar level of bipartisan support for approval.
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico Sunday after jumping out to an early lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders. A win that pushed the front-runner even closer to securing the number of delegates needed to win her party’s White House nomination.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is keeping his December commitment to Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi to push for quick action by Congress on a multi-billion rescue package for Puerto Rico.
Two members of a dangerous Puerto Rican gang that operates in a manner similar to a drug cartel have been arrested near the Texas border. Federal authorities recently arrested Carlos E. “El Negro” Carrion Nieves and Orlando “Elvin” Martinez Nunez near this border city.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders demands clemency for terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, and vows to pardon him if elected president.
Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders takes his political revolution to Puerto Rico, promising in Spanish to legalize marijuana if elected president.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio says the federal government is not helping Puerto Rico with its debt delinquency because the U.S. territory is populated by “people of color.”
Medical experts are warning that new studies show the Zika virus is capable not only of producing in unborn children the brain defect microcephaly, but a variety of severe neurological deformities that could impair a child in unpredictable ways.
With the governor of Puerto Rico refusing to pay interest on $370 million of $73 billion of debt by 5 p.m. on Monday, May 2, the U.S. territory will enter the third-largest default in history of the planet.
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Republican Paul Ryan and Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi know that if Puerto Rico misses missing general obligation bonds interest payments on May 1, it will soon not have sufficient cash flow to pay government salaries and welfare benefits — and an exodus to the U.S. mainland could follow.
The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) is a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would, very broadly speaking, allow Puerto Rico to cancel nearly half of its $72 billion debt, in exchange for surrendering much control over its fiscal affairs to an independent financial control board.
The Obama administration is siding with Speaker Paul Ryan on how to properly identify the Puerto Rico rescue legislation currently under consideration by the House of Representatives.
Although House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) warned that Congress needs to “bring order to the chaos” in Puerto Rico, conservative House Republicans are giving the cold shoulder to a plan that would let Puerto Rico wipe out $33 billion of its $73 billion debt in bankruptcy.
The Obama administration signaled concern about the fate of the Puerto Rico “bailout bill” which would allow them to restructure billions of dollars of debt. During the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest pointed out that the people
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) says House leadership told members of the Natural Resources Committee “to remain silent, refrain from asking for a recorded vote, or leave the room when the time came for a vote regarding the upcoming Puerto Rico debt
Because of Puerto Rico’s ambiguous political status vis-à-vis the United States, a federal judge in Puerto Rico ruled Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s decision to impose gay marriage doesn’t apply on the island, which is a commonwealth with a unique
Sen. Marco Rubio has won the Puerto Rico Republican Primary, and it appears he is going to secure all of the 23 delegates from the U.S. territory.
As Super Saturday’s Republican primary election results came in, showing Marco Rubio finishing in distant third and fourth places, the Florida Senator was busy campaigning in Puerto Rico for Sunday’s upcoming Republican Primary in the U.S. territory.
