the Capitol building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Garcia is a 41-year... territory to help bolster security. National Guard spokesman Maj. Paul Dahlen said Friday that...
Puerto Rico (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated...
Located about a thousand miles from Florida in the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico is a United States territory—but it's not a state. U.S. citizens who reside on the island are subject to...
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Constitución del Estado Libre... search and seizure, security in personal effects, and freedom from warrants issued without probab
1954: The Year Puerto Rican Nationalists Fired on Congressmen ; I would like to discuss an attack on the U.S. Capitol in this column—not the one that occurred on January 6, 2021, but the shooting of U.S. congressmen by Puerto Rican nationalists in the House of Representatives chamber in 1954. Though smaller in scale than the 2021 attack, the incident was still shocking, especially the fact that active members of Congress were struck by live bullets. Before getting into the attack itself, I’l...
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homeland security adviser Tom Bossert landed in San Juan on Monday, appearing with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello at a... On Capitol Hill, congressional leaders were talking about how to...
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JOSHUA GOODMAN (Associated Press) · WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off the Puerto Rico coast, authorities said. Two other U.S. officers were injured. CBP’s Air and Marine Operations unit was on routine patrol around 8 a.m. Thursday when the shots were fired about 12 miles (19 kilometers) off the coast from Cabo Rojo, a major drug smuggling corridor for cocaine coming out of South America known as the Mona Passage, the agency said. ...
OPINION ANALYSIS ; Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have a constitutional right to receive certain federal benefits that the government provides to people who live in the 50 states, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in an 8-1 decision. The case, United States v. Vaello Madero, involved Supplemental Security Income, a safety-net program that provides cash assistance to older, disabled, or blind Americans who have very low incomes. Congress excluded residents of Puerto Rico and three other territories from the program. ...