The arrest of Osceola County Sheriff Marcos López — Florida’s first Puerto Rican and Hispanic elected sheriff — sent shockwaves through Central Florida’s Hispanic community. “It comes amid a steady ...

Democrats stepped up their attacks on Donald Trump on Monday, a day after a comedian opening a rally for the former president called Puerto Rico a ''floating island of garbage,'' a comment that drew ...

Five years after the storm battered Puerto Rico, many are still in mourning ... "The everyday struggle, the political chaos, all that on top of my individual grief," she says.

The Trump administration’s new FEMA policy talks about public involvement in planning but strips any mention of equity, ...

In a story published Jun. 2, 2025, about a ruling ordering Puerto Rico's government to offer a third gender choice on birth certificates, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the ruling was ...

For Puerto Rico, this shift is not a threat, it is an open door to redefine ... and already within the legal and regulatory framework of the American system. But we need political will, urgency and ...

Puerto Rico’s political climate is very complicated in part because of ... and that the island desperately needed, there was a shift. For the first time ever, Juan Dalmau, a candidate not from a ...

tinged by political strife, bitterness, and longing for a change. They’re dreams, ideas of a new future for the island. But they’re just that: dreams. We have spent too long squabbling over what ...

Puerto Rico’s political parties are demarcated by their ... and giving Puerto Rico senators and full representatives could shift the country’s balance of power. Newly elected Resident ...

While the artist's call for Puerto Rico to avoid Hawaii's fate highlights a broader struggle to preserve cultural identity and self-determination amid economic and political pressures, many Puerto ...