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Ferrer warns GEO against playing pitcher and catcher in Parra’s contract probe.
Questions arise over an amendment to a government contract involving former Justice Secretary Janet Parra as officials call for a review by the Government Ethics Office. By THE STAR STAFF The Popular Democratic Party’s spokesperson in the House of Representatives, Héctor Ferrer Santiago, sent a letter Wednesday to Luis A. Pérez Vargas, executive director of the Puerto Rico Government Ethics Office (GEO), raising concerns over an amendment made to former Justice Secretary Jane
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$1 Million boost for nonprofits helping domestic violence victims.
Nonprofit organizations across Puerto Rico receive more than $1 million in legislative funding to support services for women affected by domestic violence. By THE STAR STAFF The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, led by Speaker Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, allocated a historic total of $1,052,500 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to 15 nonprofit organizations that provide direct services to women who are victims of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. The legislative leader also indicat
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Emergency Medical Services supports project to streamline licensing and increase the number of paramedics.
By THE STAR STAFF The commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, Abner Gómez Cortés, endorsed House Bill 999, which amends the Emergency Medical Examiner Board Act to harmonize it with national standards and thus increase the number of emergency medical technicians in Puerto Rico. During a public hearing of the Health Committee, chaired by Representative Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló, Gómez Cortés, a licensed paramedic, explained that the measure seeks to update pro
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Trump’s tour of states is about more than the midterms.
President Donald Trump greets Ed Gallrein, a farmer who has repeatedly voiced his support for him, on stage at an event at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Ky., Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Trump has endorsed Gallrein in a challenge to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has set out on a multistate tour designed to show midterm election voters that he is focused on the economy and their pocketbooks. Bu
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2 days ago3 min read
Security guard opens fire after truck rams Michigan synagogue.
By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN A security guard opened fire on a driver who rammed a truck into a synagogue outside of Detroit on Thursday, authorities said. No one inside the building at the time, including students at the synagogue’s preschool, appeared to have been injured. Sheriff Michael Bouchard of Oakland County, Michigan, said at a news conference that “at least one individual came to the temple; security saw him, engaged him in gunfire.” He said it was too soon to d
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2 days ago2 min read
A third of americans have cut spending or borrowed money for health care.
An examination room at a medical practice in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 28, 2024. A recent poll found that health care costs topped a list of the public’s economic anxieties, above concerns about the prices of food and groceries, gas and utilities. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times) By REED ABELSON Americans are feeling the squeeze from rising health care costs, and they are already doing without. One-third of Americans — an estimated 82 million people — say they are making sa
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A guide to the Pentagon’s dance with Anthropic and OpenAI.
OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, delivers remarks during a press conference at The White House in Washington on on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Late last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic, the only company that had provided the Pentagon with artificial intelligence technologies for use on classified systems. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By CADE METZ Late last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic
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2 days ago5 min read
Wall St ends sharply lower as intensifying Iran war, soaring crude prompt selloff.
U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, as Iranian strikes on two oil tankers sent crude prices surging toward $100 per barrel, further exacerbating inflation fears and sending investors fleeing equity markets. All three major U.S. stock indexes slid more than 1.5% in a broad selloff, with everything but energy and some defensive stocks suffering steep percentage losses. The S&P 500 notched its biggest three-day percentage drop in a month. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba K
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2 days ago2 min read
Wall Street ends down as weak economic data fuels recession fears.
Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday after evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to rein in decades-high inflation may cause a deep downturn. All three major indexes fell as data showed U.S. job openings in February dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, suggesting that the labor market was cooling, while factory orders fell for a second straight month. Data on Monday had also pointed to weakening U.S. manufacturing act
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3 days ago3 min read
International News
Giorgia Meloni, Trump’s friend in Europe, seeks distance on Iran.
By MOTOKO RICH During a visit to the White House last year, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy bonded with President Donald Trump over their shared opposition to “woke” ideologies and migration. After the meeting, Meloni, the only sitting European leader to attend Trump’s second presidential inauguration, said she was proud of their “privileged relationship.” Now, as an American war with Iran causes economic pain throughout Europe, Meloni’s once vaunted friendship with Tr
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2 days ago3 min read
How Russia’s scorched-earth attacks put Ukraine’s power grid near collapse.
Vitali Klitschko, center, the mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine, during a visit to a retirement home in the city, Jan. 13, 2026. In January, residents of the capital spent half of every day without power on average. (Oksana Parafeniuk/The New York Times) By CONSTANT MÉHEUT Shortly after Russia attacked a critical substation supplying power to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Oleksiy Brecht rushed to the scene on an urgent mission. Brecht, then the head of operations at Ukrenergo, the nation
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2 days ago3 min read
15 are sentenced to life for Moscow concert hall massacre.
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO A Moscow court Thursday handed down life sentences to 15 men in connection with a 2024 massacre that killed at least 149 people at a concert hall, the deadliest terror attack in Russia in two decades. The attack on the Crocus City Hall building, a popular entertainment venue outside Moscow, took place just before a rock concert was scheduled to start. It began as a shooting spree and ended with the four gunmen setting fire to the building with incendiary
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Nine law firms surrendered. Four law firms won.
A detail of Justice and History, a sculpture in the Senate wing of the Capitol, on Jan. 30, 2026. (Aleksey Kondratyev/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The four law firms that last year chose to fight President Donald Trump’s illegal intimidation campaign won at least temporary vindication this week. Federal judges had already struck down Trump’s executive orders trying to punish the firms for representing or employing people he considered to be his political enemies
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2 days ago4 min read
Kristi Noem’s story was destined to end this way.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stands as President Donald Trump calls her name at an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 2, 2025. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By MICHELLE COTTLE As I looked at Kristi Noem’s MAGA-fied visage plastered across the media on Thursday, along with the news that President Donald Trump had fired her, I couldn’t help thinking: This was always going to end in tears. Not because the defenestrated secretary of
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3 days ago4 min read
Trump’s fantasy is crashing down.
Over the past several days, after President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, his fantasy of omnipotence has come crashing into reality, writes the New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen. (Photo illustration by Damon Winter/The New York Times) By LYDIA POLGREEN In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, America is invincible and impregnable. Its military is so advanced and skillful that it can pluck a sitting head of state from a hostile country and deposit
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4 days ago5 min read
Entertainment News
PRSO to throw free-for-all pops concert on Saturday.
PRSO Associate Music Director Rafael Enrique Irizarry and co-host Leila Martínez Cabello, aka Maestra Leila, are on a “manifest mission to educate, inspire and edify,” he said. (Facebook via Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico - Página Oficial) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Where do serious, classical music and sentimental pop music become as one? At a Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) concert, of course. Music is music, but the line often blurs despite many w
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2 days ago3 min read
When Britney Spears’ conservatorship ended, concern for her did not.
Supporters of pop star Britney Spears gather with cutouts and signs outside Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, the venue for a hearing on the conservatorship that had overseen her life and fortune since 2008, on Nov. 12, 2021. The pop star’s arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence this week was a breaking point, years after she regained control of her life and finances. (Chloe Pang/The New York Times) By JULIA JACOBS In the four-plus years since a judge end
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3 days ago5 min read
‘The Bride!’ review: Frankie, my dear.
The story comes into focus with the arrival of yet another legend, Frankenstein’s monster — or Frank, as he likes to be called. By MANOHLA DARGIS Mary Shelley was just 20 when her wild, mind-expanding first novel, “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” (1818), was published. By the time she turned 25, she had suffered a series of unspeakable losses, including the death of three young children and her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. For its part, her famous creation kep
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4 days ago4 min read
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Noticias en Español
Vocación con Visión: Historias de Mujeres en la Medicina.
Dra. María G. Velázquez Lamela y Dra. Frances Marrero Barrera. Redacción EDITORIAL SEMANA redaccion@periodicolasemana.net Como parte de su compromiso continuo de proporcionar atención de excelencia a la comunidad, Puerto Rico Eye Institute (PREi) aborda una amplia gama de necesidades oftalmológicas con la misma calidad excepcional que les ha caracterizado a lo largo de los años. Para ello cuenta con un grupo de profesionales en la oftalmología, y distintas ramas de esa especi
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3 days ago7 min read
La Iglesia Episcopal y CROEM ALUMNI reconocen a quince (15) mujeres destacadas en PR.
Se muestra al grupo de Mujeres Distinguidas por CROEM ALUMNI en la Semana de la Mujer junto al Obispo Episcopal de Puerto Rico Rafael Morales y al representante del Distrito 16 Reinaldo Figueroa. Como parte de la Semana de la Mujer, CROEM ALUMNI y la Iglesia Episcopal resaltaron el impacto y legado de mujeres destacadas en diversos campos profesionales Santurce – Bajo el lema “La contribución de la Mujer en la educación de nuestro País”, la Asociación de Estudiantes Gradua
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3 days ago3 min read
Municipio de Cidra adopta adultos mayores en proyecto piloto para brindar apoyo y acompañamiento.
Por EL STAR STAFF El Gobierno Municipal de Cidra comenzó un proyecto piloto en el que todas sus oficinas y departamentos adoptan a un adulto mayor para brindarle apoyo con medicamentos, artículos de primera necesidad, tareas del hogar y, sobre todo, acompañamiento. La iniciativa atiende a personas de edad avanzada que en su mayoría viven solas y requieren apoyo continuo adicional a los servicios tradicionales. “Con este proyecto queremos promover empatía, respeto y responsabi
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4 days ago2 min read
Sports News
Arecibo launches youth baseball development league named after Rubén Rivera.
By THE STAR STAFF The city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico is stepping up its commitment to youth sports with the launch of the Rubén Rivera Baseball Development League, an initiative designed to introduce the game to the island’s youngest players. Mayor Carlos R. Ramírez Irizarry said encouraging athletic development among children is a central priority for his administration, and the new program reflects that goal. “With great enthusiasm and in a family-friendly atmosphere, we kick
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2 days ago2 min read
Salinas seeks to honor baseball’s Alomar dynasty with highway dedication.
From left, Santos Alomar Sr., Roberto Alomar and Sandy Alomar Jr. with friend and author Luis Rodríguez Mayoral at Wrigley Field in Chicago on July 10, 1990. By THE STAR STAFF Salinas is moving to permanently link one of Puerto Rico’s most storied baseball families to a road that runs through the heart of their hometown. Rep. Estrella Martínez Soto announced the filing of House Joint Resolution 305, a measure that would designate a stretch of Puerto Rico Highway 1—from kilom
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2 days ago3 min read
Crabbers extend win streak to 17 with dominant victory over Leonas in Ponce.
Crabbers earn their seventeenth consecutive victory without a loss (Heriberto Rosario Rosa.) By THE STAR STAFF Week nine of action in the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF) opened with the Santurce Crabbers’ seventeenth consecutive victory, as they remained undefeated by defeating the Ponce Leonas at the Salvador Dijols court. The set scores in Santurce’s win were 25–19, 25–15, and 25–15. With the victory, the Crabbers collected the three available points, continuing a
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Health News
Health advice from AI chatbots is frequently wrong, study shows.
A user consults with a chatbot created by the far-right social media platform Gab, in Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 29, 2025. A new study found that chatbots were no better than Google — already a flawed source of health information — at guiding users toward correct medical diagnoses or helping them determine what they should do next. (Andria Lo/The New York Times) By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH A new study published last month provided a sobering look at whether chatbots, which have fast beco
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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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Feb 185 min read
Science News
What your DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals.
A photo provided by the Max Planck Institute shows Nobel Prize-winning Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo with a reconstructed Neanderthal skull. As a result of interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans tens of thousands of years ago, most people alive today carry a bit of Neanderthal DNA in their genome — and that residual DNA, in turn, is giving scientists a detailed look at the ancient sexual encounters that put it there. (Frank Vinken/Max Planck Institute via The New Yor
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Mar 65 min read
Norway’s centuries-long watch on the northern lights.
A field station of the Tromso Geophysical Observatory and the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association, or EISCAT, project outside Tromso, Norway, Jan. 21, 2026. Norway’s northern region has led the scientific quest to understand the aurora borealis, with a 10,000-antenna radar system expected to begin the next phase of exploration this summer. (Michal Siarek/The New York Times) By ALEXA ROBLES-GIL The world’s first permanent northern lights observatory occupies a s
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Mar 44 min read
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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Feb 243 min read
Travel News
A powder quest in Japan’s ski country.
Kitanomine, one of two ski zones at the Furano resort on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, on Dec. 22, 2025. Faced with soaring ticket prices and bare slopes at many U.S. resorts, Americans are flocking to the island of Hokkaido, which gets up to 50 feet of snow a year. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times) By MEGHAN DAVIDSON LADLY I had never encountered a ski lift quite like this one. Each one-person seat looked like a pizza box hung from a cable on a metal hook. Only a low ba
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Is it safe to travel to Mexico right now?.
The center of Guadalajara is mostly empty in Mexico, Feb. 23, 2026. A wave of unrest after the killing of a cartel leader has rattled tourists at popular destinations in Mexico, prompting travelers to reconsider their plans. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By SHANNON SIMS With spring break just weeks away, and snowbirds looking to dodge a blustery winter, the recent unrest in Mexico has left travelers concerned about whether visiting the country is safe right now. While
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Mar 45 min read
36 hours in Vieques.
La Plata Beach in Vieques, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. Vieques, a 20-mile-long isle just east of Puerto Rico’s main island, has long attracted in-the-know travelers with its raw beauty and uncrowded beaches. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ Vieques, a 20-mile-long isle just east of Puerto Rico’s main island, has long attracted in-the-know travelers with its raw beauty and uncrowded beaches. Since Hurricane Maria crippled it in 2017, clo
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Mar 27 min read
Fashion & Social News
Maison Ruinart engages renowned artist in Puerto Rico.
Misi y Rafael Alvarez, Gabriel Jimenez, Ileana Martinez Palacios By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS Recently, the iconic Maison Ruinart, recognized worldwide as the official champagne of art due to its history of supporting and drawing inspiration from art and its artists to enrich knowledge and connection with nature, offered a unique and immersive experience in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Echoing its purpose of illuminating the path through connections in spaces wit
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Mar 61 min read
Las Ruinas Bathhouse & Gym, a world-class urbanoasis, opens its doors in the heart of Old San Juan
Jeniffer Rosa López, Victoria Sánchez-Lincoln, Marian Guillén, Viviana Mercado, Lucienne Gigante By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS Recently, Las Ruinas Bathhouse & Gym, a sanctuary inspired by the traditional bathhouses of Asian, Turkish, Moroccan, and Russian cultures, which served as spaces for healing, conversation, and community, opened in the heart of Old San Juan. Guests enjoyed a magical night among the lit sconces and partook of delectable bites and curat
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Make-A-Wish Puerto Rico’s annual Magic Night gala
Make-A-Wish Puerto Rico board of directors: José Vélez Millet, Weston Martin West, Bryan Shames Kopel, Laura Femenías Jové, Miguel Otero Sobrino, Maria V. Trento Biassoni and Dr. Enrique Carrión Vargas By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS Recently, Make-A-Wish Puerto Rico celebrated its annual gala, Magic Night, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Isla Verde, marking 35 years of service on the island. During the event, elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen enjoyed the ev
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