Authorities accused the woman of fleeing Puerto Rico after the Jan. 2 fire that left four businesses inoperable.

A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.

The message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United ...

When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s, he cited “humane ...

A U.S. veteran and Navajo residents have been asked for identification. Critics are complaining of racial profiling as raids ...

Bitterly cold air is sweeping over much of the central and eastern US, including the Gulf Coast states. Temperatures by Saturday will be frigid for millions in what is shaping up to be the coldest ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s new natural ... Pierluisi has previously denied that it was an alleged political attack. Quiles’s first administrative order was to shelve the ...

The violence of the arson attack, and the major financial loss ... at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “Puerto Rico: A National History,” told me.

Power has been restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a massive outage on New ... was postponed in wake of the fatal New Year’s attack in New Orleans and will now kick off today.

(Carter wound up narrowly defeating Kennedy in the Puerto Rico primary.) The attack on the Capitol had occurred March 1, 1954. Four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party entered the ...