Can a Puerto Rican Be Deported?

Can a Puerto Rican be deported from the United States? The short answer is no, of course not. People born in Puerto Rico have birthright U.S. citizenship and Puerto Rico is a territory belonging to the United States. Citizens cannot be deported...

Puerto Rican Journalists and Civic Groups Oppose Bill Limiting Access to Public Information

A coalition of journalism and civil society organizations joined forces Tuesday to denounce Senate Bill 63 (SB 63), which seeks to amend Puerto Rico’s Transparency Act, arguing that it would dismantle the constitutional right of access to public...

Puerto Rico vs Argentina, International Friendly 2025 Live Streaming and Match Time in IST: How To Watch Free Live Telecast of PUR vs ARG on TV and Online Stream Details of Football Match in India?

Argentina face Puerto Rico in an international friendly this evening at the Chase Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, in Florida. The defending world champions finished top of their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign and will now use this friendly games as...

Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You? Scientists Say Yes

The clocks will be set back one hour at 2 a.m. (to 1 a.m.) local time on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, across North America. getty Should Daylight Saving Time be abolished? It's almost time for North America to "fall back" as DST ends this weekend. The...

New Fortress pushes costly Puerto Rico gas expansion

New Fortress Energy operates its liquefied natural gas delivery facilities in San Juan Bay. (File photo) The Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) just commented on a major proposed natural gas contract, sending the Puerto...

US military kills 14 more people accused of smuggling drugs on boats

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, attends President Donald Trump’s speech at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The Trump administration launched another round of deadly strikes on vessel it accused of smuggling...

Puerto Rican baseball mourns the passing of Santos ‘Sandy’ Alomar Conde

Santos “Sandy” Alomar Conde, a former Major League player, manager and mentor, was among the most respected figures in national and international baseball. He died Monday in his native Salinas at age 81. The Puerto Rico Baseball Federation and the...

A Puerto Rican Hot Spot Gets a New Home in Park View

Qui Qui has brand new digs in Park View. Photograph by Natasha Gomez. For Puerto Rican culinary culture in DC, there’s nowhere quite like Qui Qui, the vibrant restaurant where chef-owner Ismael Mendez blends music with island sazón. But in June,...

UW professors launch Puerto Rican Studies Hub

UW-Madison professors Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo recently established a Puerto Rican Studies Hub on campus, with the help of a $3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Puerto Rican Studies Hub aims to...

Saving Upward Bound: Students and educators urge Pima Community College to join lawsuit

Crowds of passionate people from all over Arizona showed up to the Pima Community College District’s Oct. 8 governing board meeting, all in support of one program — TRIO Upward Bound. On Oct. 13, Pima’s governing board voted unanimously to approve...

Convicted sex offender arrested in Puerto Rico after skipping his sentencing in La Crosse last month

The FBI says a sex offender from La Crosse has been captured in Puerto Rico, weeks after he was supposed to be sentenced in Wisconsin. Cody Tanke had a La Crosse County plea hearing in June, where he was convicted of repeated sexual assault of the...

Puerto Rican Local Accuses Kentucky State Of Lying About Field Conditions

iStockphoto / Kentucky State University Athletics Kentucky State will not play its historic college football game against Franklin Pierce in Puerto Rico as planned. The game was moved back to New Hampshire on the mainland just a few days prior to...

Bad Bunny’s Residency Boosted Tourism to Puerto Rico, Let’s Sustain It Ethically

Puerto Rico named the piña colada — a typically rum-based tropical cocktail blended or shaken with cream of coconut and pineapple juice — as its national drink in 1978. You can also get the drink sans alcohol, like I did. The above is virgin, as...

Puerto Rico and the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prizes for 2025 have been awarded. Four of the winners were U.S. citizens (one born in Jordan and naturalized in the U.S.) and one was from Venezuela, still representing the Americas. All in all, more than 400 U.S. citizens have received...

Senate Approves Bill That Further Restricts Access to Information in Puerto Rico

With strong opposition from community leaders, nonprofit organizations, journalists’ associations, and media outlets across Puerto Rico, Senate Bill 63 (SB 63), which adds new restrictions to Act 141-2019, known as the Transparency and Expedited...

Cody Tanke arrested in Puerto Rico, extradition to La Crosse County in process

CULEBRA, Puerto Rico (WXOW) – A La Crosse man who missed his appearance for sentencing on charges of sexual assault of a child and was suspected to have fled to Puerto Rico has been arrested in Culebra, PR, the FBI reports. As WXOW reported, Cody...

Amanda Serrano returns, books Erika Cruz rematch for Jan. 3 in Puerto Rico

After concluding her trilogy against Katie Taylor which saw her drop all three fights to the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring female light welterweight title holder, Amanda Serrano is returning to her home turf in hopes of getting back on...

Did US try to capture Venezuela’s Maduro by bribing pilot of his plane?

The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolas Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where US authorities could nab the strongman. In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a...

Skytec, FirstNet expand safety network across Puerto Rico

Wilfredo Pereira, FirstNet Caribbean Territories manager, demonstrates FirstNet’s Mission Critical Push-to-Talk technology. Skytec Inc., a Puerto Rico-based provider of public safety technology, has partnered with FirstNet, Built with AT&T, to...

Record 1.4M ferry riders mark surge in Puerto Rico travel

Isla Bonita, one of Puerto Rico Ferry’s passenger vessels. (Credit: www.facebook.com/puertoricoferry) Puerto Rico’s ferry system, operated through a public-private partnership between the Integrated Transportation Authority (ATI, in Spanish) and...