Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) spoke up for Puerto Rico statehood in the context of his focus on voting rights for all ...

The DOD Southern Command Is using the most aggressive naval campaigns since the U.S. Navy’s 10th century West Indies ...

Warmkraft Puerto Rico LLC, a division of Perimeter Insect Guard, is planning to invest $16 million to open a facility at the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company’s Guanajibo Industrial Park. The ...

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

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.

New York City is the city with the largest stateside Puerto Rican population, but Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comes in second with 140,000 Puerto Rican residents. That’s about 15% of the total ...

While Puerto Rico is in a strong economic position compared to other Caribbean and Latin American economies, it is not well off when compared with the 50 states of the United States. Puerto Rico has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Puerto Rico Senate Bill 504 made headlines as it passed into law in the closing days of 2025 — especially in social media and blog posts from right to life groups. The new law is being hailed as “one ...

In the 20th century, Operation Bootstrap helped change Puerto Rico’s economy from an agricultural base to an industrial one. The initiative was a series of federal economic reforms, launched in the ...

Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, has its own local government with two Island-wide positions: Governor and Resident Commissioner. The Resident Commissioner is Puerto Rico’s sole ...