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ACAA temporarily relocates its Carolina office due to remodeling work

By THE STAR STAFF The Automobile Accident Compensation Administration (ACAA by its initials in Spanish) announced Sunday that the Carolina Regional Office will temporarily relocate its operations to a new site while remodeling work on its facilities is completed. Starting today at noon, all services offered at the Carolina Regional Office will be available at a temporary office within the State Insurance Fund Corp. on highway PR-3 (65th Infantry Avenue) at the intersection wi

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License revoked for Las Piedras care home following alleged abuse case

Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes By THE STAR STAFF Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes announced on Sunday the immediate revocation of the license for the long-term care home Casa Dorada in Las Piedras, following a report of a new case of alleged abuse against an elderly woman at the facility. “This care home was already the subject of an administrative investigation regarding alleged negligence in the provision of services to the elderly adults in its care -- a proces

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PR Supreme Court allows Bad Bunny voice rights suit to move forward

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny, and Carliz de la Cruz Hernández (Facebook via Papi) By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lawsuit against global music star Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, to move forward, marking a significant development in a long‑running dispute over the now‑famous vocal tag “Bad Bunny, baby.” In a 50‑page opinion issued recently, the court ruled that plaintiff Carliz de la Cruz Hernánde

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Senate to begin on-site inspections of cannabis dispensaries

By THE STAR STAFF Senate Health Committee Chairman Juan Oscar Morales Rodríguez announced Sunday that on-site inspections of medical cannabis establishments will take place this week. The on-site inspections, scheduled for Tuesday, stem from Act 42 of 2017, the Law to Manage the Study, Development and Research of Cannabis for Innovation, Applicable Standards and Limits. The first visit is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. at the Cannalytics Bioscience Labs. Subsequently, the committee

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Lindsey Graham, Republican senator and staunch Trump ally, dies

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2026. Graham, a South Carolina Republican who served in the State Legislature and the House of Representatives before being elected to the Senate four times, has died, his office announced early Sunday, July 12. He was 71. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ROBERT JIMISON, ZACHARY WOOLFE and AMELIA NIERENBERG Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a onetime opponent turned stalwart ally of

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At vigil, sons of man killed by ICE in Houston call for accountability

A makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant who was shot by ICE agents, at the site of the incident in Houston on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Salgado Araujo had been living in Houston for 35 years, and his sons recalled their father’s love of soccer and said they would “continue to keep fighting for him.” (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times) By EDGAR SANDOVAL On Saturday morning, Ronaldo Salgado glanced, his smile bittersweet, at a photo of hi

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Judge quashes Justice Dept. subpoena in 2020 election inquiry

FBI agents walk outside of the Fulton County elections office in Atlanta, Jan. 28, 2026. A federal judge in Atlanta cast serious doubts on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, on the Justice Department’s efforts to reinvestigate President Trump’s false claims that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election, saying that the five-year statute of limitations for any possible crimes arising from the race had “long expired.” (Nicole Craine/The New York Times) By ALAN FEUER A federal jud

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How Marco Rubio is running Venezuela from afar

Delcy Rodríguez, the interim president of Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela on April 30, 2026. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks, a relationship akin to parents handing out allowances to children. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER and ANATOLY KURMANAEV President Donald Trump was sitting in the Oval Office earlier this year with Secretary of State Ma

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A wildfire killed 12 people in southern Spain. Here’s the latest.

By CARLOS BARRAGÁN and LYNSEY CHUTEL Hundreds of firefighters and emergency workers were battling a wildfire Saturday in southern Spain that has killed at least 12 people, officials said. The fire is already one of the deadliest on record in Spain, and 23 people were still missing as of Saturday afternoon. Most of those confirmed to have been killed were foreigners. More than 1,400 people were forced to flee their homes, said Antonio Sanz Cabello, the health minister in the r

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Ceasefire unraveling as US and Iran trade strikes again

President Donald Trump walks off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday, July, 9, 2026. Trump insisted Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz was open to shipping traffic, adding that the U.S. had “bombed the hell” out of Iran last night. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LEO SANDS, SANAM MAHOOZI, AARON BOXERMAN, ERICA L. GREEN and ERIC SCHMITT The United States conducted a fresh round of strikes on Iranian targets Sunday, a U.S. official said, extending a pattern of a

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Horror becomes routine as more bodies emerge after Venezuela quakes

A priest and nuns bless the rubble of a collapsed building in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Fearful that officials would tear down damaged buildings without accounting for any remaining bodies, Venezuelans are desperately digging for their relatives’ remains. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA Two weeks after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, people are still clawing with their bare hands at the massive concrete columns that c

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US employers told to dismiss thousands of immigrant workers

A Haitian family seeks help obtaining passports and documents at the St. Vincent de Paul center in Springfield, Ohio, Jan. 15, 2026. The work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will expire July 24 as the Department of Homeland Security has told employers that they must let go in coming weeks the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have been allowed to live in the United States through the humanitarian program, which the Trump administration has sough

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Wall Street ends higher as investors turn to earnings season

The S&P 500 rose ⁠to ⁠end just short of a record high ⁠on Friday, as a blockbuster Nasdaq debut of South Korea’s SK Hynix fueled optimism about memory-chip makers, while investors looked ahead to quarterly earnings season kicking off next week. The artificial intelligence trade returned to the spotlight after SK Hynix ended ‌13% above its offering price at $170 ‌in a high-profile U.S. listing. The semiconductor company raised over $26 billion on Thursday by selling American

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A few officials signaled support for higher rates at Warsh’s first meeting

Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve chairman, speaks to reporters at a news conference in Washington, June 17, 2026. Minutes from Warsh’s first Federal Reserve meeting as chairman were significantly pared down compared with those released under his predecessors. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By COLBY SMITH A few officials at the Federal Reserve said they could have supported raising interest rates at their meeting in June to address resurgent inflation, according to minu

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Biblioteca Municipal de Loíza continúa abriendo las puertas al conocimiento y la tecnología

POR EL STAR STAFF LOÍZA – La alcaldesa de Loíza, Julia Nazario Fuentes, informó que como parte de los servicios municipales, la Biblioteca Municipal sirve de lunes a viernes de 8:00 de la mañana a 4:00 de la tarde. Llega el nombre de Miguel A. del Valle Escobar, quien fue legislador de distrito. “Nuestro pueblo cuenta con unas facilidades cómodas, con aire acondicionado y espacios para los visitantes, con libros de referencia, también por temas específicos como filosofía, re

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Gobernadora llega a Ponce con inversión de $70 millones en infraestructura y su reunión número 50 en municipios con jefes de agencia y alcaldes

POR EL STAR STAFF PONCE – Bajo el programa Cumpliendo Contigo, la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón realizó su reunión número 50 donde lleva a cada alcaldía jefes de agencias para trabajar con cada alcalde y sus directores municipales, soluciones a las prioridades del municipio en este caso de Ponce. En la reunión la gobernadora y la alcaldesa Marlese Sifre tocaron asuntos de infraestructura, arreglos de carreteras, habilitar la isla Caja de Muertos, los faros de las isla

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Cancelan Camuy Summer Fest por paralización de obras en Peñón Brusi

POR CYBERNEWS CAMUY – El alcalde de Camuy, Gabriel Hernández, informó el jueves la cancelación de la sexta edición del Camuy Summer Fest luego de que el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) paralizara obras de reconstrucción en la zona turística de Peñón Brusi. “Le demostramos al DRNA que el proyecto cuenta con todos los permisos y autorizaciones necesarias. Sin embargo, la actitud arbitraria e intransigente de dos Vigilantes de Recursos Naturales, y su ins

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Isabela pone manos a la obra por Venezuela, hoy salió el primer vagón de ayudas

POR EL STAR STAFF ISABELA – El alcalde de Isabela, Ing. Miguel ‘Ricky’ Méndez Pérez, informó que durante el día de hoy, personal del Municipio hizo entrega del primer vagón de ayudas humanitarias a la Fundación Cáritas, entidad católica internacional al que está a cargo del traslado de los suministros a Venezuela, para brindar apoyo a las familias afectadas por los devastadores sismos. “En Isabela agradecemos de corazón a todos los ciudadanos, voluntarios, empleados municipal

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Let’s name the country that’s financing mass murder

Recently arrived Sudanese refugees from various parts of north Darfur, including el-Fasher, at the Oure Cassoni refugee camp in eastern Chad, Nov. 28, 2025. Last year, a brutal militia overran el-Fasher, slaughtering some 60,000 people in a few weeks, after repeated warnings by human rights experts went unheeded, Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Last year, human rights experts warned for many months that a brutal

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An uncomfortable lesson from Platner’s campaign

An attendee holds a campaign flyer for Graham Platner, a veteran who was running for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Maine, during Platner’s town hall in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, April 12, 2026. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Graham Platner is out. Just months ago, the oyster farmer and Marine combat veteran looked like the answer to the question Democrats keep asking themselves: Where are the candidates who can excite people? Platner, ru

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Lessons from the Graham Platner disaster

Graham Platner speaks to supporters in Blue Hill, Maine, after winning the Democratic nomination for the Senate on Tuesday night, June 9, 2026. (Sophie Park/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG Hopefully, by the time you read this, Graham Platner will have dropped out of the Senate race in Maine. If he hasn’t, he needs to, immediately. His campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, has become a shameful catastrophe. What’s left — be

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What is the ‘spirit of liberty’ today?

By BRET STEPHENS In May 1944, Learned Hand delivered a brief but timeless address in New York on “the spirit of liberty.” Freedom, the great 2nd Circuit jurist warned, cannot be safeguarded by constitutions, laws or courts. Nor can there be freedom wherever “men recognize no check upon their freedom” — a road down which it becomes “the possession of only a savage few.” Instead, the judge said, the spirit of liberty lay in a combination of humility, curiosity, generosity and r

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Kids can’t stop watching ‘Moana.’ There’s a scientific explanation.

By SARAH BAHR Rory Henry, a 2-year-old in Fort Worth, Texas, is in the grip of an obsession. She’s watched Disney’s animated Polynesian princess movie, “Moana,” around 40 times in the past year and a half. She has a pig toy in the shape of Pua, Moana’s sidekick. A karaoke microphone that plays a song from “Moana 2.” And “Moana” dresses, sunglasses and hair clips. Rory’s mother, Stacey Henry, 38, and her father have to be careful about using the “M word” around the house, Henr

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2026 Emmy nominations: ‘The Pitt’ and ‘Hacks’ lead the pack

“The Pitt” By JOHN KOBLIN Last year, “The Pitt” pulled off a surprise best drama win at the Emmy Awards, besting shows with bigger budgets, stars and ratings. This year, “The Pitt” will enter the Emmy Awards in September as a juggernaut. The HBO Max medical series collected 25 Emmy nominations Wednesday, the most of any show and nearly double its haul from last year. The show’s stars, Noah Wyle and Katherine LaNasa, winners from last year, were nominated again, along with six

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The history at the Smithsonian that the White House finds unpatriotic

Attendees at Rededicate 250, a Christian-focused prayer rally, on the National Mall in Washington, May 17, 2026. Rededicate 250 promoted the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER While the nation’s 250th birthday may have passed, the pitched partisan battles over how to tell the country’s history — in particular the founding story of 1776 — are hardly over. On July 4, hours before President Donald

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Santeros, Vaqueros rebound to even their respective BSN semifinals series

Chris McCullough, right, had a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds in his debut to help the Vaqueros of Bayamón beat the Capitanes of Arecibo 83-79 on Saturday to even their National Superior Basketball Conference B semifinal series at a game apiece. By THE STAR STAFF The Santeros of Aguada and the Vaqueros of Bayamón were winners on Saturday night in a pair of National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) postseason semifinal games. At Ismael “Chaval

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Juncos, Sabana Grande advance to women’s softball final

Leanne Matthews went 4-for-4 with two home runs, four RBIs and two runs scored as the Valencianos of Juncos beat the Leonas of Ponce 7-0 to advance to the Women’s Premier Softball League Crown Series. By THE STAR STAFF The Valencianas of Juncos and the Prodigiosas of Sabana Grande both earned victories on Saturday to qualify for the 2026 Crown Series of the Women’s Premier Softball League. Juncos eliminated the Leonas of Ponce with a 7-0 win at Toño Feliciano Park in Ponce, c

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Juncos, Yabucoa even their respective Double-A semifinals series

The Azucareros of Yabucoa scored two runs in the third inning and three in the fifth to defeat the Gigantes of Carolina 5-2 on Saturday and even their Superior Double-A Baseball League “Final Four” semifinal series at a game apiece. (Aldwin Santiago) By THE STAR STAFF The Mulos of Juncos and the Azucareros of Yabucoa notched victories on Saturday to even their respective Superior Double-A Baseball League “Final Four” semifinal series at a game apiece. Mulos star left-hander L

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