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Search for survivors suspended in Haitian migrant boat capsize near Puerto Rico that left 11 dead

After days searching more than 6,600 square miles of ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard stopped looking for possible survivors Sunday night after an overloaded boat carrying Haitian migrants overturned near Puerto Rico’s western coast last week.

Miami Herald

Coast Guard ends search after rescuing 38 near Puerto Rico

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has suspended the search for potential survivors of a capsized boat after finding 11 bodies and rescuing 38 migrants

The Independent UK

For global phenomenon Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico remains his playground, battleground and muse

If you're young, Latino and slightly prone to melodramatics, you might be the kind of person who stays up for a midnight Bad Bunny album release.

Los Angeles Times

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Survivor search continues after migrant boat capsizes near Puerto Rico, leaving 11 dead

Federal and state authorities in Puerto Rico continued searching for survivors Friday morning after a boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized near the U.S. territory’s western coast the day before, leaving 11 women dead.

Miami Herald

Fatal boat trip highlights Haitians fleeing violence

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing

The Independent UK

Eleven dead after Haitian migrant vessel capsizes near Puerto Rico

At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, amid a steady increase in migrants attempting reach U.S. shores in dangerous marine voyages.

Reuters

11 dead and 31 rescued after boat capsizes in waters off Puerto Rico

Overturned craft was initially spotted by a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter

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In Puerto Rico, the arrests of elected officials worsen trust in government

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Benjamin Torres Gotay, a reporter and columnist for Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Dia, about recent arrests of elected officials related to corruption.

WEKU

At least 11 people dead after boat carrying Haitian migrants capsizes near Puerto Rico

At least 11 people died and 31 people were rescued after a boat carrying Haitian migrants overturned Thursday near an uninhabited island off Puerto Rico’s western coast, according to federal authorities.

Miami Herald

Boat suspected to be carrying migrants capsizes off Puerto Rico. A rescue is underway

Federal and state authorities in Puerto Rico are looking for possible survivors after a boat suspected to be carrying undocumented migrants overturned on Thursday near Desecheo Island, a national wildlife refuge off Puerto Rico’s western shores.

Miami Herald

Car Shipping To And From Puerto Rico (2022 Guide)

Discover how to transport a car across the Caribbean to Puerto Rico.

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Why Hemisphere Media Shares Are Soaring Today

Gato Investments LP agreed to acquire Hemisphere Media Group, Inc (NASDAQ:HMTV) at $7 per share. The offer price implies a premium of 86% over Hemisphere's closing share price on May 6, the last trading day before the announcement. Hemisphere will become a private company wholly owned by Gato. Hemisphere CEO Alan Sokol said,…

Benzinga

U.S. DOJ says two mayors in Puerto Rico arrested and charged with taking bribes

The mayors of two municipalities in Puerto Rico were arrested on public corruption charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday, confirming an earlier media report that caused Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi to demand for their resignations.

Reuters

Builders hurt protected areas in climate-weary Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into destruction in an ecological reserve that protects one of the island’s most extensive mangrove forests

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Ruling threatens US power as world's high-seas drug police

A little-noticed federal appeals court ruling this year threatens a key weapon in the United States’ war on drugs: A decades-old law that gives the U_S_ broad authority to make high-seas drug smuggling arrests anywhere in the world, even if those drugs aren't bound for the U_S_ The Maritime Drug…

Dublin Live

Boxing legend Katie Taylor deserves 'big' homecoming celebration after huge win

World champ Katie won the biggest ever fight in women’s boxing history on Saturday when she beat Puerto Rico’s Amanda Serrano

McClatchy Washington Bureau

‘He’s a little crook’: As British Virgin Islands chief faces US drug charge, his government faces crackdown

As the top politician in the sun-soaked British Virgin Islands, Andrew Alturo Fahie had spent 20 years in the trenches of the tiny British overseas territory near Puerto Rico to become its “head coach.” And he wasn’t about to lose it all in 20 minutes.

The Independent UK

Trump-appointed justice Neil Gorsuch praised for ‘eloquent’ statement on US colonialism in Puerto Rico case

The conservative justice called US colonial policy in the region ‘implausible and embarrassing’ in recent opinion

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Commentary: Puerto Rico is a federal territory that deserves federal aid

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court decisively rejected the principle of equality under the law when it comes to Puerto Rico. While seemingly limited in scope, we must not minimize the far-reaching implications of the court´s 8-1 decision in United States v. Vaello Madero.

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Thienna Huynh, Sara Im never trail in final match to win U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship in Puerto Rico

"Can you believe that we're USGA champions?”

Benzinga

Pfizer Recalls Some Batches Of Another Hypertension Drug Over Cancer-Causing Impurity

Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) said it is voluntarily recalling five batches of its Accupril blood pressure tablets after finding elevated levels of a potential cancer-causing agent in the medicine. Accupril is indicated for hypertension to lower blood pressure. It is also indicated for the management of heart failure as adjunctive therapy when added to…

The Guardian - UK

Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs

Frustration among scientists as many islands, hard hit by Covid and hurricanes, struggle to fight stony coral tissue loss disease

Reason

Justice Gorsuch Calls for Overruling the Insular Cases

In a forceful concurring opinion, he argues the Supreme Court should overrule longstanding precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of Puerto Rico and other "unincorporated" US territories. Gorsuch is absolutely right. But he would do well to cast the same critical gaze on the very similar precedents that exempt…

Al Jazeera

US top court rules Puerto Rico not entitled to welfare programme

Supreme Court justices say denying benefits to residents of Puerto Rico does not violate their constitutional rights.

Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court declines to extend federal benefits to Puerto Rico

Congress can prevent people in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico from participating in a federal program that provides benefits to low-income elderly, blind and disabled people, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

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