Jalen Penrose of Corozal earned Player of the Week honors and was also recognized as the Best Opposite. By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation announced the Men’s Division All-Star Team for Week 5 of the 2025 Men’s Superior Volleyball League, highlighting the most outstanding players in each position. The undisputed star was the opposite hitter for the Plataneros of Corozal, Jalen Penrose (#14), who earned Player of the Week honors and was also recognized as

Mayagüez (5-8) showed why they might not be in fourth place for long. By THE STAR STAFF The Mayagüez Indians, Caguas Criollos and Ponce Lions were all winners on Tuesday night in a trio of games in Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish). Isan Díaz homered and Anthony García delivered timely hits as the Indians (Indios) defeated the Santurce Crabbers, 7-2. Despite the loss, the Crabbers (Cangrejeros) remained in first place in the stan

A nurse monitors a fetal heart rate at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., on Nov. 13, 2025. While C-sections for first-time mothers ticked up across the U.S. in recent years, Rochester General Hospital dropped its rate dramatically. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times) By SARAH KLIFF and BIANCA PALLARO When Dr. Elizabeth Bostock took over the obstetrics department at Rochester General Hospital in New York in 2019, she was alarmed by its high rate of C-sections: 40

Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at his party’s headquarters in Brasília, Jan. 14, 2025. Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, ordered Bolsonaro to start serving a 27-year sentence for overseeing a failed plot to hold onto power after losing the country’s last election. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA Brazil’s Supreme Court earlier this week ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to start serving a 27-year sentence for overseeing a fai

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at a campaign rally in Guanare, Venezuela, on July 17, 2024, days before the presidential election. As President Donald Trump raises pressure on President Nicolás Maduro, Machado is also moving to align herself closely with Trump. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO As the Trump administration weighs using force to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, former diplomats and even some promi

The benchmark S&P 500 should end next year at 7,500, helped by a resilient U.S. economy and an artificial intelligence-driven “supercycle,” according to Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, J.P. Morgan’s head of global markets strategy. The index ended Tuesday at 6,765.89. If the S&P 500 finishes next year at 7,500, it would mean a gain of 10.9% from here. The forecast is close to the 7,490 median year-end 2026 target in a new Reuters poll of equity strategists. The J.P. Morgan outlook, rel

The country-pop musician Madi Diaz in Central Park in New York, Sept. 11, 2025. The singer and songwriter, based in Nashville, Tenn., has written songs for Maren Morris and toured with Harry Styles. Her new album, “Fatal Optimist,” was released in October. (OK McCausland/The New York Times) By MARISSA R. MOSS Madi Diaz was sure she’d do something eventually with the blue toilet, sink and bathtub that now sit idle in her driveway. “I bought them off Facebook Marketplace at 1 a

POR EL STAR STAFF SAN JUAN – La Fondita de Jesús celebró su tradicional almuerzo de Acción de Gracias para las personas sin hogar el miércoles, en el que voluntarios se unen de forma especial para añadir al menú un abrazo solidario, amor y esperanza para los más vulnerables de la comunidad. “Nuestra celebración de Acción de Gracias es un recordatorio poderoso de que la verdadera abundancia se encuentra en la solidaridad y la hermandad. Hoy damos gracias por cada vida que acom