SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the U.S. territory attempts to strengthen its fragile economy. Government officials are jumping on planes to try and ...

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend, a power company spokesman said. All hospitals ...

“The grid has become the poster child of the decay of the colonial system, its institutions and a very vulnerable population," said Cecilio Ortiz García, of the University of Puerto Ric ...

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend. All 1.4 million customers were affected, Hugo Sorrentini ...

Puerto Rican Olympic wrestler Jaime Espinal, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Games, this week will fulfill his dream of participating in a World Wrestling Entertainment ... show by carrying ...

Puerto Rico has struggled through decades of economic decline, a series of punishing storms, an earthquake and the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years. Its government has been crushed by debt and ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from ...

This November, the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico will go to the polls, just like their fellow U.S. citizens. But unlike their fellow citizens, they will not be able to vote for Senators or ...

Every storm that blows through the island is a test of its infrastructure. Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria -- nearly seven years after the powerful Category 4 storm caused ...

He has gone from the freshman at Christian Brothers Academy who weighed less than 90 pounds and went 3-8 while wrestling at ... him being one of Puerto Rico’s flag bearers for the opening ...

At the festival Saturday, more than the traditional flag of Puerto Rico was on display. There were flags from El Salvador, ...