Gabrielle Benda of Corozal was named Best Setter for her precise distribution and ability to maximize her team’s offensive potential. (Facebook via Las Pinkin) Santurce’s Ortiz & McGhee dominate blocking, Caguas’ Valle leads defense By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation has named the All-Star Team for Week 6 of the 2026 Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish) season, highlighting the most dominant players in each of the evaluate

A burned car sits beside a damaged business, one day after the Mexican military killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, the leader of one of the world’s largest drug cartels, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Feb. 23, 2026. President Donald Trump has demanded President Claudia Sheinbaum confront the cartels. The killing of “El Mencho” suggests it might be working — but could come at a cost.(Cesar Rodríguez/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS El Mencho was the biggest kingp

By FRANCES ROBLES The Cuban government said it exchanged gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat that had entered its territorial waters Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding six others. The vessel approached within one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel north of Corralillo, a town in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, according to a statement on the Facebook page of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior. Cuban border-guard troops on a government b

Pope Leo XIV on his first trip abroad as pontiff in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 26, 2025. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV would make a 10-day trip to Africa in April, traveling to Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, less than a year after he was elected to the papacy. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times) By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV would make a 10-day trip to Africa in April, traveling to Algeria, An

Tuesday saw ⁠software ⁠stocks stage something of a rally, weirdly driven by the thing ⁠that’s beaten them down for the past month: a sweep of new plug-ins from AI lab Anthropic. This time around, the market focused more on ​the partnerships between some of these companies and Anthropic, rather than the existential threat AI could pose. I’ll get into that and more below. But first, check out my latest column on why AI isn’t the only thing driving the ‌global economy. And liste

LP cover for “Cosa Nuestra” by Willie Colón (1969) (Wikipedia) By SANDRA E. GARCÍA (An Appraisal) Every genre has its bad guy, villain, heel. In the world of salsa, that dark genius was Willie Colón, who died Saturday at the age of 75. His predilection for playing the antagonist came across in a variety of ways. The titles of his music albums: 1967’s “El Malo,” which translates to “The Bad Guy”; 1973’s “Lo Mato — Si No Compra Este LP,” or “I’ll Kill Him — If You Don’t Buy Thi

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – La Junta de Gobierno de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados afirmó a principios de esta semana que el nombramiento del presidente ejecutivo, Luis González Delgado, es válido conforme a la Ley 40 de 1945, según enmendada. “Recientemente se han levantado cuestionamientos públicos sobre el nombramiento del ingeniero Luis Reinaldo González Delgado como presidente ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados”, indicó la Junta el marte

POR CYBERNEWS VILLALBA – El alcalde de Villalba, Dan Santiago Núñez, informó el miércoles que el municipio recibió el informe “Single Audit” correspondiente al año fiscal 2022, el cual refleja un déficit operacional de 1,590,448 dólares. “Contrario a lo que algunos quieren decir, la auditoría confirma que heredamos un déficit catastrófico. Sin embargo, desde el día uno de esta administración municipal, nuestro compromiso ha sido claro, cumplir con nuestra promesa de una gober