Jayuya Mayor Jorge “Georgie” González Otero is the president of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association. By JORGE “GEORGIE” GONZÁLEZ OTERO The current freeze on the inventory tax and its eventual elimination in 2028 is a mechanism that will ultimately be paid for by the citizens of all municipalities in Puerto Rico. Certainly, there are still citizens who are unaware of the reality of what House Bill 420 means, which is designed to benefit already multimillion-dollar commercial in

A man is taken into custody by federal agents in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. “In President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration blitz, federal agents have repeatedly violated civil liberties and humiliated people,” The New York Times editorial board writes. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos. Federal agents are rounding up peopl

“The proposed reparative action for Spanish citizenship is discriminatory because until 1898 it was only granted to Spaniards, but not to people of color and Taino people in Puerto Rico,” columnist Gregorio Igartúa writes. (discoverpuertorico.com) By GREGORIO IGARTÚA Special to The STAR A group of American citizens, mainly supporters of independence for Puerto Rico, are promoting that Spain grant so-called reparative Spanish citizenship to U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico with

Claude Ruzindana shows a photo of his late wife, Ndavura Musabimana, in a family album at his home in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Kamwenge District, Uganda, Aug. 20, 2025. Orphaned in a massacre in Congo, a onetime elementary school dropout is now an American and can teach us something about resilience. (Stuart Tibaweswa/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF I worry that my reporting recently from Africa about President Donald Trump’s aid cuts may leave a misimpression th

By LYDIA POLGREEN For many Americans, there might be a temptation to disbelieve the enormity of what has happened in the Gaza Strip. After all, it is a catastrophe funded by our money, made possible by our weapons, condoned by our government and carried out by one of our closest allies. It’s little wonder that some want to downplay the damage. Their defense is to cast doubt on the numbers. It goes something like this: The death toll, counted by the Hamas-run Health Ministry,

“She’s not going to talk back,” one top Hollywood talent wrangler said dryly of AI actress Tilly Norwood. (Reddit via r/artificial) By MAUREEN DOWD In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, “Good Lord, we’re screwed.” She was on a podcast with Variety Monday when she was handed a headline about cinema’s latest sensation, Tilly Norwood. Agents are circling the hot property, a fresh-faced young British brunette actress who is attracting global attention. Norwood is AI, and Blunt is

Demonstrators hold signs during the nationwide No Kings Day protests at Pacific Park Plaza in Dallas on Oct. 18, 2025. Large crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the nation on Saturday to condemn a president they view as acting like a king, part of a daylong mass demonstration against the Trump administration. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as

The backside of a cardboard cutout of President Trump at the New York Young Republican Club watch party at Downtown Social in the East Village, New York on Nov. 5, 2024. (Paola Chapdelaine/The New York Times) By DAVID FRENCH It has happened again. We learned last week that a cohort of Republican activists and political staff members had shared racist and misogynist messages in a private text chat. It’s a story that repeats itself with depressing regularity, varying only the n