On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that it’s “Baffling” that the president has tweeted more about the NFL than Puerto Rico and the president has more to do to deal with human
“I wasn’t preoccupied with the NFL,” Trump said, pointing out that he was “ashamed” by NFL players disrespecting the flag and the National Anthem.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), who was born in Puerto Rico, argued more time needs to be spent addressing the crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and warned of Maria
President Donald Trump will visit Puerto Rico next Tuesday to personally witness the damage Hurricane Maria caused the island. He said that will be the earliest he can visit, due to the extensive storm damage.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo repeated Monday the false claim that he is an immigrant. It was not the first time the Queens-born Democrat has made the bizarre claim that went unchallenged on national television.
Latin pop superstar Marc Anthony slammed President Donald Trump Monday, demanding that he stop talking about NFL national anthem protests and focus on helping Puerto Rico.
Singer-songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda argued in a tweet on Monday that President Donald Trump will have “American deaths” on his watch if he waits to send aid to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Irma and Maria.
The media and the Democrats are deseperate to find a Hurricane Katrina in Puerto Rico, and to deny President Donald Trump’s capable and compassionate response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
The Times of Israel reports: As volunteers worked feverishly to tape the exposed windows of San Juan’s Temple Beth Shalom with plastic film and carry the synagogue’s Torah scrolls to a secure place, the congregation’s visiting rabbi prayed for a
President Donald Trump commented on the historic hurricane damage in Puerto Rico, promising to help rebuild the community.
A Florida mayor issued mandatory evacuation orders for his beachfront community while calling Irma a “nuclear hurricane.” The Category 5 hurricane is expected to hit Florida on Sunday morning.
Hurricane Irma moved away from Puerto Rico Thursday morning leaving at least nine people dead in various Caribbean islands. The Category 5 hurricane will skirt along just north of Cuba before it is predicted to slam into Florida early Sunday morning.
TEL AVIV – Israel has warned its citizens currently in areas of Florida in the path of Hurricane Irma to evacuate, the Foreign Ministry said.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reports that a “potentially catastrophic” Hurricane Irma will strike the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Current predictions call for the storm to move on to Cuba and then possibly Florida by Sunday afternoon.
President Donald Trump warned Americans of Hurricane Irma, a fast-building storm headed for the East Coast.
President Donald Trump signed emergency declarations in advance of Hurricane Irma for Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Tuesday, Hurricane Irma grew to a major Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 185 mph. President Trump’s declarations
Contents: Voting for statehood will not save Puerto Rico from financial crisis; Puerto Rico plunges into contentious bankruptcy proceedings; Illinois bond rating expected to be cut to junk status
The banner headline will read 97 percent of Puerto Rico voted for statehood, but only 23 percent of voters cast ballots on June 11 due to opposition boycotting.
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.