Commonwealth of Puerto Rico – Virgin Islands Free Press

Biden approves major disaster declaration for Puerto Rico

John McCarthy / November 29, 2024

SAN JUAN — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the government of […]

John McCarthy / November 24, 2024

A suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman and her 4-month-old son inside a car in Hartford, Connecticut, was

John McCarthy / November 22, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball scrapped plans to play regular-season games next year in Mexico City and San

John McCarthy / October 29, 2024

SAN JUAN — Roberto González Nieves, archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, called on former President Trump to apologize personally for

John McCarthy / October 29, 2024

MIAMI — A comedian’s offensive comments about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally Sunday night have sparked outrage among

John McCarthy / October 27, 2024

NEW YORK — Donald Trump rallies in the closing weeks of the campaign have been marked by overt racism and

SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor today signed a law that prohibits discrimination against people wearing Afros, curls, locs,

SAN JUAN (AP) — On a recent morning in an Afro-Caribbean community in northeast Puerto Rico, Dr. Pedro Juan Vázquez went

John McCarthy / October 25, 2023

SAN JUAN (NBC) —Players of the highly anticipated video game “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” took to social media to ask developers

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court this week rejected a bid to extend a federal program offering benefits to low-income