“We need to put Pennsylvania on the map and make it a blue state, not a purple state,” Quiñones-Sánchez said. Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, with Maria killing an ...

A map shows the percentage Puerto Rican population in each state of the U.S. Recent derogatory comments about Puerto Rico could affect ... from advocacy groups and political leaders who represent ...

In December 2022, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8393, proposing yet another referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status, which would have been the first to bind Congress to implement ...

Now, voters on the island cannot cast a vote for the next president, but on Tuesday, they could usher in a new political era for Puerto Rico. For the first time, they could elect a governor who ...

Puerto Rico is a political paradox: part of the United States but distinct from it, enjoying citizenship but lacking full political representation, and infused with its own brand of nationalism ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Plans to hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status came under scrutiny Wednesday for its multimillion-dollar cost as election officials announced ...