With a 56.8% majority supporting statehood, Puerto Rico's call for equality shifts to Congress as leaders push for decisive ...

The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest ...

Puerto Rico’s per capita gross domestic product would make it the poorest state in the nation. Its anemic economy has ...

This year’s election is unlike any other in the 76 years since the U.S. began allowing Puerto Ricans to vote for their ...

Fast forward to 2024, a referendum on Puerto Rico’s independence or possible statehood is on the ballot in the middle of ...

Puerto Rico’s medical cannabis market has already surpassed $250 ... “Our responsibility for 2025 is to work with the ...

The Puerto Rico Research Hub at the University of Central Florida polled about 150 Puerto Ricans who predominantly live in ...

U.S. Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s former nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress and an ally of Donald Trump, ...

But that year, U.S. Congress created a federal control board to oversee Puerto Rico’s finances after the government announced it was unable to pay a more than $70 billion public debt load.

The principle of government by consent of the governed, central to America’s founding, is not applied to Puerto Rico because of its current territory status, but it should be. For this to change, ...