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Genera PR parent firm New Fortress restructures its debt.
The New Fortress Energy Inc. chairman & CEO said the newly structured business will be “capital-light” with low leverage and strong free cash flow, supported by long-term supply and demand agreements. (Facebook via New Fortress Energy) By THE STAR STAFF New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE), the parent company of Genera PR, has announced that it has entered into a restructuring support agreement with its creditors as part of a consensual U.K. Restructuring Plan, a process expected t
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Trump issues 60-day suspension of Jones Act.
A temporary waiver of the Jones Act -- like Trump’s 60‑day suspension -- can provide meaningful short‑term relief by allowing foreign vessels to deliver fuel and cargo more cheaply and more efficiently. (Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics) By THE STAR STAFF President Donald Trump has issued a 60‑day suspension of the Jones Act, the century‑old U.S. maritime law that requires cargo shipped between U.S. ports to travel on American‑built, American‑owned and American‑crewed vess
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13 hours ago2 min read
PREB certifies reallocation of streetlight repair funds to 35 towns.
Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez By THE STAR STAFF Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, along with House Government Committee Chairman Víctor Parés Otero, announced Wednesday that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) issued a resolution last week reaffirming the reallocation of $527 million to 35 municipalities for the repair and replacement of streetlights, thus completing the alloca
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13 hours ago1 min read
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6 takeaways from the Times investigation into Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez, center, joins with United Farm Workers while demonstrating in New York, Oct. 10, 1969. An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement. (John Sotomayor/The New York Times) By SARAH HURTES and MANNY FERNÁNDEZ Every year, thousands gather to celebrate Cesar Chavez, the labor leader who rose from the poverty of Arizona’s lettuce fields to build one o
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13 hours ago5 min read
Miami Cubans fear Trump won’t go far enough: ‘The Castros have to go’.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters before a Senate briefing on the ongoing conflict with Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. Many Cubans in Florida have sought regime change for decades; they fear that President Trump’s talks with Cuba will not lead to wholesale political transformation. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI The musician Willy Chirino was singing a protest song at a gala hosted by Cuban American lawyers in Miami last
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13 hours ago5 min read
ICE releases Columbia protester who was held for one year.
Rep. Nellie Pou (D-N.J.) speaks as an aide holds a photo of Leqaa Kordia during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 10, 2026. Kordia, who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024, has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MARIA CRAMER A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at
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Silicon Valley bet on war. It’s paying off.
By SHEERA FRENKEL As the third week of the war in the Middle East continues, intelligence gathered by the Pentagon is being analyzed by technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, on a system run by the data analytics firm Palantir. Drones created by a defense tech startup in Arizona have emerged as a key piece of the U.S. war arsenal. And anti-drone systems made by a California startup have been deployed to protect U.S. forces in the region. Silicon Valley
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13 hours ago4 min read
Stocks slump after Fed keeps rates unchanged as oil prices climb.
Global stocks fell on Wednesday, extending declines after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, while a rise in crude prices and an earlier reading on U.S. inflation kept equities under pressure. The U.S. central bank’s summary of economic projections (SEP) showed the Fed’s benchmark overnight interest rate would fall by just a quarter of a percentage point by the end of this year, with no hint of the timing of such a move, while the inflation projection for
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13 hours ago3 min read
With threats and claims of ‘treason,’ Trump pressures media on the war.
A plume of smoke rises in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026, after overnight strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces targeted multiple oil storage depots. The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM The Trump administration has unleashed a multifaceted pressure campaign against news organizations as it increasingly bristles
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1 day ago5 min read
International News
Cuban Americans will be allowed to own businesses in Cuba, but is that enough?.
By FRANCES ROBLES Diana Sainz and her husband, Andrea Gallina, invested big a decade ago when Cuba made a push toward allowing private entrepreneurship. The couple own two boutique hotels with restaurants in Havana, three small markets and a production center to sell frozen prepared meals. But with fuel running out and long electrical outages a daily occurrence, 90% of this year’s reservations have been canceled. They said they had to lay off dozens of employees. Under intens
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13 hours ago4 min read
For US, unmet expectations in Iran fit a familiar pattern in the region.
A woman peers out from a damaged building in Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2026. Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By NEIL MacFARQUHAR After the United States and Israel went to war against Iran on Feb. 28, the U.S. military began issuing a bulletin every few days listing the number of targets hit. By Wednes
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13 hours ago5 min read
Trump’s next target: ‘Taking Cuba’.
Cuban locals and international tourists walk through the Callejón de Hamel, an alley featuring Afro-Caribbean-inspired art, in Havana July 18, 2015. “Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it,” President Donald Trump said on Monday, March 16, 2026. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.” (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS “I do believe I’ll be having the honor of taking Cuba,” President Donald Trump told repor
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Viewpoint News
For once, we fight with an equal ally.
Children prepare to bed down for the night in an underground parking garage that serves as a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo war comes to mind in the s
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13 hours ago4 min read
Trump’s dangerous lack of a strategy in Iran.
A couple stands in the ruins of their apartment after an airstrike in Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2026. “President Donald Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears that he may not have had much of a strategy at all,” writes the Times editorial board. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Donald Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American peop
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1 day ago5 min read
Does Trump risk turning America into a rogue state?.
President Donald Trump disembarks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 15, 2026, after a trip to Palm Beach, Fla. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Suppose Iran dispatched operatives to Mexico, where, from the Texas border, they fired a missile at an American base and, unintentionally but carelessly, demolished a nearby American school, killing 175 people. What if they then blew up fuel depots, showering a chemical
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2 days ago5 min read
Entertainment News
Latinos & Russians view 20th-century strife in music.
Guitarist Arturo Castro Nogueras (Instagram via arturo.castro.nogueras) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) will pay homage Saturday night to Latin American rhythms and hardships and to the Russian take on revolution. The program for the season’s 11th classical concert was curated by Venezuela’s Manuel Hernández Silva, who recently cancelled his guest conductor appearance. He will be replaced on the podium by Associate Music Direct
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13 hours ago4 min read
Where to stream the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.
“Boogie Nights” By JASON BAILEY Paul Thomas Anderson took home his first Oscars (for best picture, director and adapted screenplay) at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, which may come as a surprise to those who have long considered him one of our finest filmmakers. But it’s a satisfying payoff for the writer and director, 55, who has spent nearly three decades synthesizing his copious influences and experimental instincts into a distinctive, inimitable style of his own. A look
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1 day ago5 min read
‘One Battle After Another’ wins Oscar for best picture.
Paul Thomas Anderson accepts award for best adapted screenplay for “One Battle after Another,” during the 98th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 15, 2026. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By BROOKS BARNES “One Battle After Another” won six Oscars at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, including those for best picture and best director, at long last cementing Paul Thomas Anderson’s status as one of the foremost filmmakers of his generation. A
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2 days ago6 min read
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Noticias en Español
Turista fallece ahogado en playa de Vieques.
POR CYBERNEWS VIEQUES – Un hombre de 56 años, procedente del estado de Maine, falleció el miércoles en la tarde luego de ser sacado del agua en la playa Punta Arenas, en Vieques, informó la Policía. Según las autoridades, la emergencia fue reportada mediante una llamada al Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 y cuando los agentes llegaron a la escena, el perjudicado recibía atención de paramédicos. La Policía indicó que el hombre, identificado como Samuel Terry Effron, fue asistido e
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13 hours ago1 min read
Ambientalistas se oponen a megaproyectos solares.
POR CYBERNEWS SALINAS – Organizaciones comunitarias y ambientales denunciaron el miércoles que megaproyectos solares industriales en Salinas podrían agravar inundaciones y generar impactos ambientales y sociales en varias comunidades del municipio. “Sería incoherente con nuestra historia oponernos a la energía renovable, especialmente después del daño que la industria de combustibles fósiles ha causado en nuestras comunidades”, indicaron portavoces comunitarios en su ponencia
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13 hours ago1 min read
Populares presentan medida para suspender temporalmente el arbitrio a la gasolina, mejor conocido como la “crudita”.
POR EL STAR STAFF SAN JUAN – El portavoz del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) en la Cámara de Representantes, Héctor Ferrer Santiago, junto al portavoz alterno Domingo Torres García y las representantes Gretchen Hau y Swanny Enit Vargas Laureano, presentaron una Resolución Conjunta dirigida a suspender temporalmente el arbitrio a la gasolina y al diésel, mejor conocido como la “crudita”, por un periodo de 45 días, como medida urgente para atender el alto costo de vida que en
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1 day ago2 min read
Sports News
PR women stake out group positions on opening day of J30 Bayamón.
Amalia Bures won a hard-fought three-set match on opening day. By THE STAR STAFF With key results in the group stage, Puerto Rican tennis players began to make their mark in the international J30 Bayamón tournament -- part of the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors -- during matches held earlier this week at the Honda Tennis Center. Puerto Rican players Bela Martínez Rivero and Amalia Bures secured important victories on Monday that placed them firmly in contention within their res
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13 hours ago2 min read
Fast-growing Naranjito 5K is ‘sold out’ for its 2nd edition.
The 5K race in Naranjito, which this year adopts the theme “Ponte Chango: Camínalo, Córrelo, Gatealo” (Get Your Chango On: Walk It, Run It, Crawl It), is scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 29 at 6 a.m. By THE STAR STAFF A 5K race organized by GB Neuro Project (formerly Academia Santa Teresita) in the Cedro Arriba neighborhood of Naranjito has achieved a new participation record for its second edition: “GB Te Lleva a la Meta” (GB Takes You to the Finish Line). By success
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13 hours ago2 min read
Messi meets with Trump, and divides Argentina.
President Donald Trump gestures toward soccer superstar Lionel Messi, who has always taken pains to steer clear of politics, during Inter Miami’s visit to celebrate the team’s 2025 Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup victory, at the White House in Washington, March 5, 2026. Trump seized the occasion to talk about the demolition of Iran’s military and regime change in Cuba, turning a routine celebration into a polarizing firestorm. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOL
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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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Mar 105 min read
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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Feb 254 min read
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
Asteroid-smashing NASA mission sped up space rocks’ journey around the sun.
An image provided by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows the asteroid named Dimorphos. Dimorphos is about 525 feet around and orbits a larger parent asteroid, Didymos. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL via The New York Times) By KATRINA MILLER In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos. The goal of this interplanetary smashup was to prove that if a killer space rock ever threatened Earth in the future, humans could deflect it and save our world. The
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3 days ago3 min read
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
Travel News
How to create your own affordable wellness vacation.
Visitors soak in the warm waters of Strawberry Park Hot Springs, just outside of Steamboat Springs, Colo., in December 2022. Wellness travel is booming, projected to account for $1 trillion worldwide this year, according to the research nonprofit Global Wellness Institute. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times) By ELAINE GLUSAC In Iceland, I paid $11 for access to the outdoor recreation complex in Akureyri, the country’s second-largest city, to swim laps and wind down in geotherm
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1 day ago5 min read
In Turks and Caicos, golden silence at a platinum price.
An undisturbed beach at the Pine Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos in February 2026. Turks and Caicos, a chain of Caribbean islands just southeast of the Bahamas, teems with high-end, all-inclusive resorts. What many guests seemed to want, and are willing to pay thousands of dollars a night to get, is glorious silence. (Danial Adkison/The New York Times) By DANIAL ADKISON The boat skipped across the shimmering turquoise water at a breathtaking speed. “You’d better take off y
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3 days ago6 min read
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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Mar 95 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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Dec 12, 20251 min read
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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