Nation Jul 25 Puerto Rico Gov. Rosselló to resign Aug. 2 amid online chat scandal The announcement comes nearly two weeks of protests touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers.
Nation Jul 22 Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans demand governor resign Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by a leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him…
Nation Jul 22 Puerto Rico prepares for massive protest demanding Gov. Rosselló resign Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take over one of the island's busiest highways Monday morning to press for the resignation of Rosselló over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat the governor had with allies.
Nation Jul 21 Puerto Rico governor will not seek reelection, but won't resign Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek reelection or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party.
Politics Mar 29 Puerto Rico seeks more food stamp funding as Congress stalls Many Puerto Ricans are still struggling to meet their basic needs after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
World Feb 18 Haitians seek basic necessities in aftermath of government protests Businesses and government offices slowly reopened across Haiti on Monday after more than a week of violent demonstrations by tens of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise over skyrocketing prices that have more than doubled for…
Nation Jan 07 Growing opioid crisis adds to Puerto Rico's problems "Hardly anyone talks about this problem in Puerto Rico. It's like it doesn't exist," says Rafael Torruella, program director for a needle exchange program in Puerto Rico.
Nation Aug 28 Hurricane's death toll in Puerto Rico put at nearly 3,000 The new estimate of nearly 3,000 dead in the six months after Maria devastated the island in September 2017 and knocked out the entire electrical grid was made by researchers with the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George…
Nation May 03 Investigators search for cause of deadly cargo plane crash in Georgia Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C-130 Hercules cargo plane dropped from the sky to crash on a Georgia highway as families of nine Puerto Rican airmen grieved Thursday over the deaths of an experienced…
Nation Apr 18 Excavator blamed for island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria. Officials said an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line.