PR House OKs anti-discrimination bill

Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaw ...

PR economy shrinks for fourth month

Puerto Rico’s economy contracted for a fourth straight month, shrinking by 3.1% ...

Hurricane center: Beware of storm surge

MIAMI — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life a ...

Feds bust $1.8M bogus check scheme
Issued: May 24, 2013
Some three dozen suspects were rounded up in Puerto Rico on Friday as part ...

2013 tax haul lags budget by $321M
Issued: May 24, 2013
Year-to-date revenues for fiscal 2013 totaled $6.796 billion through April, ...

Mapfre honors PR Conservation Trust
Issued: May 24, 2013
The Puerto Rico Conservation Trust has landed the Mapre Foundation’s award ...

Cockroaches drop sweets to survive
Issued: May 24, 2013
NEW YORK — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by sett ...

Gay rights bills still snagged in House
Issued: May 24, 2013
Legislation to extend legal protections to gays remained in limbo in Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives after a marathon session that sa ...

HUD offices idled on sequestration
Issued: May 24, 2013
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) closed its offices nationwide, including Puerto Rico, on Friday as a result of fe ...

Brace for a busy hurricane season
Issued: May 23, 2013
Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, federal forecasters say.

Dissidents find ‘Cuba outside Cuba’ in Miami
Issued: May 23, 2013
MIAMI — When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the ...

T&C recovers $19.5M, prime land in corruption case
Issued: May 23, 2013
Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they con ...

Cuban migrants reach US soil at Mona
Issued: May 23, 2013
A group of undocumented Cuban nationals has reached U.S. soil at Mona Island.

Triple-S caps stock conversion, offering
Issued: May 23, 2013
Triple-S Management Corp. announced the conversion of more than 6.6 million issued and outstanding shares of Class A common stock into share ...

Evertec up for data security award
Issued: May 23, 2013
Evertec Group LLC, the leader in electronic transaction processing in Latin America and the Caribbean, has been named as a finalist for the ...

Report: Kids need to get more physical
Issued: May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON — Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic — and PE? ...

GDB selling Old City, Fajardo properties
Issued: May 23, 2013
Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank is putting properties on the market in Old San Juan and Fajardo.

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Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov’t
Issued: May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures a ...

Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions
Issued: May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can l ...

Why worry? Less stimulus by Fed would point to recovery
Issued: May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Investors have grown nervous that the Federal Reserve will scale back its efforts to boost the U.S. economy sooner than many ex ...

Delta ups the ante in battle for NY travel market
Issued: May 24, 2013
NEW YORK — Delta’s formula for winning over New York travelers is simple: floor-to-ceiling windows, abundant power outlets and a burger join ...

Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer
Issued: May 24, 2013
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — Guinness World Records confirms that a ribbon-cutting to mark the reopening of the Jersey shore following Superstorm ...

US durable goods orders rise 3.3% in April
Issued: May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — U.S. orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in April, buoyed by more demand for aircraft and an increase in produ ...

Procter & Gamble brings back Lafley as CEO
Issued: May 24, 2013
NEW YORK — Household products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is hoping its former CEO can work his magic once again.

Weiner gets started stumping in NYC mayoral race
Issued: May 23, 2013
NEW YORK — New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was greeted with applause and intense media attention as he faced some of his oppo ...

Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
Issued: May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining ...

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Issued: May 23, 2013
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested co ...

Obama cites new framework for terror war
Issued: May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he has established a new framework to govern U.S. force against terrorists.

Urban renewal? Big US cities showing strong growth
Issued: May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON — Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, ...

NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Issued: May 23, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious ...

Between economy and trouble, Obama approval steady
Issued: May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON — The economy is recovering, the White House is dealing with multiple controversies, and President Barack Obama appears generally ...

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Mexico: Far fewer disappeared than feared
Issued: May 24, 2013
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's top security official says far fewer people have disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when t ...

IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
Issued: May 24, 2013
PARIS — IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an ...

Venezuela to create new workers militia
Issued: May 24, 2013
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s president has ordered the creation of a new workers’ militia to defend the country’s “Bolivarian revolution ...

Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
Issued: May 24, 2013
GUATEMALA CITY — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 mi ...

Barrick fined $16M for Pascua-Lama violations
Issued: May 24, 2013
VALLENAR, Chile — Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and i ...

Cuba silent on Canadian's corruption trial
Issued: May 24, 2013
HAVANA — Official silence surrounded the case of a Canadian businessman targeted by a corruption probe in Cuba on Friday, as the initial tri ...

Madrid's Catholic Church says it needs exorcists
Issued: May 24, 2013
MADRID — The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.

China gives US regulators access to audit records
Issued: May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — China has agreed to give U.S. regulators access to audit records for Chinese companies whose shares trade on U.S. stock exchang ...

China, Switzerland to seal free trade deal
Issued: May 24, 2013
GENEVA — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to sign a free trade pact with the Alpine nation — the first comprehensive agreement t ...

France won't force companies to cap executive pay
Issued: May 24, 2013
PARIS — The French government is trying to woo executives and entrepreneurs, amid concerns that it has antagonized the businesses needed to ...

Obama's speech welcomed in Pakistan, Yemen
Issued: May 24, 2013
ISLAMABAD — President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two ...

Mais non! French universities may teach in English
Issued: May 23, 2013
PARIS — In France, there’s a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite.

Businessman’s corruption trial on in Cuba
Issued: May 23, 2013
HAVANA — A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was det ...

Weak yen a help for Japan, but headache elsewhere
Issued: May 23, 2013
TOKYO — A steady fall in the value of the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota. The cheaper yen is making their products mo ...

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