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Grounded barge Defiant moves 30 feet after refloating attempt
The U.S. Coast Guard said response personnel and salvage teams would meet Tuesday to reassess the plan for freeing the still-grounded fuel barge Defiant and make adjustments before a second tugboat-assisted refloating attempt during the next high tide today. By THE STAR STAFF The U.S. Coast Guard reported Tuesday that a tugboat attempted to refloat the barge Defiant at high tide early in the morning and moved it nearly 30 feet from its original grounding position. “In close c
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Gov’t launches livestock traceability system
Rosely Hernández, executive director of the Beef Industry Promotion Fund, and Agriculture Secretary Irving Rodríguez Torres Also distributes more than 100 tablets to boost efficiency By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture announced two major initiatives Tuesday aimed at modernizing the island’s agricultural sector, including the rollout of a cattle traceability system and the delivery of more than 100 electronic tablets to agronomists and inspectors. Publ
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CRIM doesn’t directly say if it will raise property taxes
Municipal Revenue Collections Center Executive Director Javier García Cintrón By THE STAR STAFF Municipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM by its acronym in Spanish) Executive Director Javier García Cintrón outlined several new initiatives Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the Mayors Federation in Gurabo but did not say whether property taxes will be raised. García Cintrón said the agency is advancing projects aimed at improving property tax records and taxpayer services ac
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Savannah Guthrie offers $1 million for tip leading to mother’s return
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Television news anchor Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday that her family is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago. Guthrie, a “Today” show host, made the new offer in a four-minute video posted on Instagram in which she acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother may already be dead, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. If Nancy Guthrie
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Power outages remain in New England after record snowfall
Shoveling snow outside of a laundromat in Queens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. The powerful winter storm pummeling a vast swath of the Eastern Seaboard left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, dumping snow at a furious rate and strangling major metropolitan areas at the dawn of the workweek. (José A. Alvarado/The New York Times) By JACEY FORTIN and ANDY NEWMAN A blizzard that buried much of the Northeast and New England left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, as well
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Supreme Court considers fate of docks and other assets seized by Cuba in 1960
A photo provided by the Havana Docks Company shows a brochure from the 1950s advertising the company’s dock facilities in Cuba. Amid rising tensions with Cuba, the Trump administration is backing lawsuits that would allow Americans to get compensation for property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime. (Havana Docks Company via The New York Times) By ANN E. MARIMOW More than 60 years ago, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba and began confiscating the assets of all American-owne
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Weekly Print Edition, February 25, 2026
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The lesson of AI literacy class: Don’t let the chatbot think for you
Mike Taubman, left, and Scott Kern at North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, N.J., on Feb. 3, 2026. The two created, and co-teach, the school’s new artificial intelligence literacy class. (Juan Arredondo/The New York Times) By NATASHA SINGER The first session of a new artificial intelligence class this month for high school seniors in Newark, New Jersey, involved purely human intelligence. The students’ assignment: to compare when they had passively scrolle
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S&P 500 poised to gain 10% by year-end, but trade, AI disruption concerns persist
The S&P 500 stock index will gain about 10% between now and the end of the year, driven by strong earnings and steady economic growth despite ongoing worries about U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies and disruption from artificial intelligence, according to a Reuters poll. By the end of 2026, the S&P 500 will be around 7,500, or 9.7% above Monday’s close, according to the median estimate of 44 strategists, analysts and portfolio managers polled in the past week
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‘Murky waters’ for global businesses after Trump’s tariff loss
Victorinox Swiss Army knives are assembled at a factory in Ibach, Switzerland, Sept. 10, 2025. Even after the U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation of many of President Donald Trump’s levies, foreign leaders and executives are assuming that U.S. tariffs are here to stay, in one form or another. (Lea Meienberg/The New York Times) By PATRICIA COHEN The watershed U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday that struck down President Donald Trump’s go-to method of imposing tariffs upended a cor
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International
After six decades of the war on drugs, what works?
A forest fire started by rival cartels to block access to a road used as an escape route into the mountains in Uruapan, Mexico, on March 7, 2022. The death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but few believe it spells the end for the powerful group. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By MARIA AL-HABIB Drug lords have been killed or captured, and cartels have splintered or collapsed, only to see more violent ones replace th
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Iranians brace for war beneath veneer of normalcy
People watch a building that was hit after Israel’s attack in Tehran, Iran. June 13, 2025. For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as American and Iranian officials traded threats of attack and calls for diplomacy. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON and FARNAZ FASSIHI For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as U.S. and Iranian officials traded threats
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Trump considers targeted strike against Iran, followed by larger attack
President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One in Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, Ga., on Feb. 19, 2026. The top negotiators plan to meet in Geneva on Thursday for last-ditch talks, debating a new proposal that could create an off-ramp as two carrier groups massed within striking distance of Iran (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By JULIAN E. BARNES, DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER and ERIC SCHMITT President Donald Trump has told advisers that if diplomacy or a
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What trafficked girls think of Epstein
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF As the world follows the drip-drip of sensational revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, here’s a number to ponder: Last year the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received more than 113,000 reports of child sex trafficking. Yiota Souras, the center’s chief legal officer, says that while no one knows the actual number of children trafficked annually in the United States alone, “the real number is absolutely higher” than that. Most of the victims
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The case for striking Iran
People walk past a domestically built missile “Khaibarbuster,” and banners showing portraits of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and the late armed forces commanders, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1, 2025. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS President Donald Trump appears poised to order strikes on Iran — indeed, by the time you read this column, he may already have done so — while barely bothering to spell out his reas
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This is how an autocrat goes to war
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, Feb. 13, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by George W. Bush and his henchmen. When the Bush administration wanted to go to war with Iraq, it undertook a full-court press to propagandize the American people. Administration officials leaked false information about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, which turne
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Entertainment
‘Billy Preston’ review: A unique and tortured talent
By GLENN KENNY At one point in this film about protean musician Billy Preston, drummer and producer Bill Maxwell says, “Billy didn’t just have perfect pitch, he had perfect anticipation.” Meaning Preston could play a tune through with the other musicians after hearing only a few chords. And “Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It,” a sometimes mind-blowing documentary directed by Paris Barclay, doesn’t ask you to take Maxwell’s word for it. The movie has abundant archi
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BAFTAs 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ wins best film
“One Battle After Another” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, won the best film honors at this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards. By ALEX MARSHALL “One Battle After Another” won the best film honors at this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor, took home six awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, commonly known as the BAFTAs. Its awards included best director,
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Willie Colón: 14 essential songs and albums
Photo credits, counterclockwise from upper right: Wikipedia, Discogs, Wikipedia/Fania Records By ED MORALES The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón made the instrument central to his band, and the instrument’s ornery, sarcastic, yet often uplifting sound defined not only salsa’s break from the Cuban tradition, but the N
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Casos de influenza se mantienen por debajo del umbral epidémico por segunda semana
POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Salud, Víctor Ramos Otero, informó el martes que en la Semana Epidemiológica 6 se reportaron 2,070 casos nuevos de influenza, para un total acumulado de 52,713 en la temporada 2025-2026. “El comportamiento actual de la influenza demuestra que una respuesta oportuna, articulada y basada en evidencia científica tiene resultados”, dijo Ramos Otero en declaraciones escritas. “Desde la declaración de epidemia, hemos fortal
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Presidente AAA afirma el 99 por ciento tiene suministro de agua potable
POR CYBERNEWS GURABO – El presidente de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Luis González Delgado afirmó el martes que no existe una crisis de agua potable en el país y aseguró que el servicio en San Juan estaba restablecido en 99.9 por ciento. “Pues mira, es que ahora mismo no hay crisis. ¿Quién cree que no hay crisis? Ahora mismo todo el mundo está con agua. O sea, en este momento la gente está con agua”, dijo González Delgado a preguntas de la prensa. “Hoy por la
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Federación de Alcaldes exige nombramiento de director regional de la AAA para la zona metro
POR CYBERNEWS GURABO – El presidente de la Federación de Alcaldes, Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez, informó el martes que el gremio solicitó al presidente ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados la designación de un director regional para la zona metropolitana. “Fue una reunión exitosa con una asistencia mayoritaria y muchos reclamos de los alcaldes. Principalmente, con las carreteras porque este cuatrienio ningún municipio ha firmado un acuerdo con la agencia s
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Sports
US-Canada ‘grudge match’ ends up being mostly about the hockey
Connor Hellebuyck (#37) of the United States makes a save against Macklin Celebrini (#17) of Canada during the men’s gold medal hockey game at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Jeremy White/The New York Times) By MOTOKO RICH and TARIQ PANJA It was a game destined to be played under the shadow of politics, but in the end, fans mostly put aside the growing animosity between the Trump administration and Canada’s government to chee
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Cangrejeras stay unbeaten, Atenienses end skid in LVSF
The Cangrejeras of Santurce celebrate a point en route to their 12th win of the season against no losses. (Heriberto Rosario Rosa - FPV) By THE STAR STAFF The sixth week of the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF) season ended Sunday night with the Cangrejeras of Santurce and the Atenienses of Manatí winning their respective matches. The Cangrejeras (12-0) extended their perfect record by dominating the Leonas of Ponce in three sets, taking all three points to bring thei
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Bill Mazeroski, 89, whose 9th-inning blast made Pirates champs, is dead
Bill Mazeroski, the Pittsburgh Pirates legend, at home in Pittsburgh on June 17, 2008. Mazeroski, who hit the most famous — and surely the most decisive — home run in World Series history, a blast in the bottom of the ninth inning of a game seven in 1960, died in Lansdale, Pa. on Feb. 20, 2026. He was 89. (Jeff Swensen/The New York Times) Bucs lifer was Roberto Clemente’s teammate for 17 seasons By THE STAR STAFF Bill Mazeroski, who hit the most famous — and surely the most d
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Health
FDA reverses decision and agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine
A flu vaccine is prepared in Mountain Lakes, N.J., Sept. 16, 2025. (Laila Stevens/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA JEWETT and REBECCA ROBBINS The Food and Drug Administration reversed its decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine and has agreed to review it for possible approval. On Feb. 10, Moderna announced that the agency had rejected its application for review of a new flu vaccine. The FDA said the company’s research design had been flawed. But in subsequent discussions, the agen
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Kennedy allies target states to overturn vaccine mandates for schoolchildren
An empty classroom at the high school in Williston, N.D., during an outbreak of measles there, May 19, 2025. Longtime allies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, have launched a new effort to repeal laws that for decades have required children to be vaccinated against measles, polio and other diseases before they enter day care or kindergarten. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA JEWETT Longtime allies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s healt
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Forget about muscle mass as you age, focus on strength
When it comes to longevity, bigger is not always better. (Jackson Gibbs/The New York Times) By HILARY ACHAUER These days, you might think you have to become a power lifter to age well. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, a celebrity physician, calls muscles “the organ of longevity.” For Dr. Peter Attia, they’re “the most important retirement accounts you can have.” We’re often reminded that muscle mass starts to decline as early as 30, and that it becomes harder to build muscle as we get ol
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Science
Baboon sibling rivalry suggests monkeys feel jealousy like people
A photo provided by Dr. Axelle Delaunay shows a baboon family in Namibia. Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to a younger brother or sister. (Dr. Axelle Delaunay via The New York Times) By ANNIE ROTH Ever been jealous of your brother or sister for getting too much attention from your mom or dad? Scientists believe you’re not the only creature in the animal kingdom to feel that way. A t
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At a ‘tea party’ with scientists, this ape showed some imagination
A photo provided by Ape Initiative shows Kanzi, a bonobo living at the Ape Initiative in Des Moines, Iowa, was able to play make-believe with researchers studying the ape imagination. In a playtime experiment, scientists found that apes, our closest living relatives, have the capacity for make-believe, too. (Ape Initiative via The New York Times) By ALEXA ROBLES-GIL Having an imaginary friend, playing house or daydreaming about the future were long considered uniquely human
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Deep inside an Antarctic glacier, a mission collapses at its final step
Engineer Paul Anker checks on the supply of hot water for a drilling operation at Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, Jan. 30, 2026. An attempt to drill through Thwaites Glacier is foiled; scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) By RAYMOND ZHONG A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over t
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