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A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit.
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Most people with dengue will show no signs of infection or experience only mild symptoms, but in rare cases infections can become severe and potentially fatal.
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The Cuban jazz artist says she's never felt welcome in Latin pop. That is, until she came to Puerto Rico to record her new album, Alkemi, which expands her sound into R&B, bossa nova and neo-soul.
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A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts. The debate began after Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives announced the mandatory use of face masks following a rise in COVID-19 cases.
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SundialNora Maité Nieves is currently an artist in residence at The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. In her exhibit “Clouds in the Expanded Field,” connects her Caribbean roots to the skies above whatever city she might find herself in.
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More than half of babies born in the territory are now delivered via surgery compared with only 32% on the U.S. mainland.
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SundialCarlos Frías is joined by director Gladys Ramírez. She’s the executive director of City Theatre in Miami where she's directing the Miami debut of the play "La Gringa" at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
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Borinquen Medical Centers President and CEO Paul Velez said following Hurricane Maria in 2017 there was inadequate federal government funding to rebuild and restore facilities like community health centers and hospitals.
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When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny island of Barbuda as a powerful Category 5 storm in 2017, the government evacuated the entire population.
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A MAGA Inc TV ad in Iowa states that Gov. Ron DeSantis "actually sponsored the bill to make Puerto Rico a state." The claim is mostly true: he backed a bill drafting a path for Puerto Rico statehood, but did not author it.
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Puerto Rico, the nation's sixth-largest school district, is in crisis. It's both uniquely vulnerable to natural disasters and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from them.
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After 35 years on display in a zoo, living in a quarter-acre with no other elephants, Mundi is sharing 850 acres in Attapulgus, GA with fellow elephants Bo and Tarra.