Why is Puerto Rico competing in -- and hosting -- the Miss Universe pageant when they are not an independent country?

Rep. Darren Soto is confident going into the midterm elections in Florida's 9th district, in spite of recent redistricting.

In an announcement from the Oval Office on Friday, September 18th, President Donald Trump described a new plan to extend the benefits of Most Favored Nation agreements on prescription drug prices to ...

English has been spoken in Puerto Rico for more than a century. If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it will not have the largest number of speakers of Spanish among the States. However, it will probably ...

Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) won the Album of the Year award at the Grammy awards and gave an emotional speech in Spanish, thanking his mother, his fellow artists, ...

Recent estimates say that there are about 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living in the States, compared with 3.2 million on the Island. Puerto Ricans are not evenly distributed across the nation, however.

The Puerto Rico Senate is considering a resolution to study the possibility of reopening Roosevelt Roads as a military base. “For decades, Roosevelt Roads represented an economic engine for the ...

Manufacturing jobs in Puerto Rico have been on the decline since the beginning of the 21st century. The chart below, from Federal Reserve Economic Data, shows the slide from 1994 to 2018. The nadir ...

The vote, giving voters a choice among the viable non-colonial options for Puerto Rico’s political status, is the seventh political status vote in the history of Puerto Rico. Statehood gained the ...

Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernandez has been working to revive the idea of an “enhanced commonwealth” as a status option for Puerto Rico. As El Nuevo Dia columnist Jose Delgado recently ...

El Nuevo Dia released results of a major political poll last week. Enthusiasm is strong: 92% expressed interest in the election, scheduled for November 5th,compared with 78% in 2020. Almost all ...

The United States is made up of 50 states, plus five inhabited territories and the District of Columbia. Most Americans can recognize the 50 states and know that D.C. is the nation’s capital city, but ...