Jezreel de Jesús led Ponce with 24 points in the Leones’ victory over Aguada on Sunday night. Tyson has a big night to lead Gigantes By THE STAR STAFF The Leones of Ponce outlasted the visiting Santeros of Aguada in a back-and-forth contest in one of three Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league games on Sunday night. The Gigantes of Carolina and the Piratas of Quebradillas were the evening’s other winners. At Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium in Po

A view of La Rada Hotel on the Condado Lagoon, where for decades Larry Sweeney’s Scotch ‘n Sirloin, generally known to its local patrons as simply “Sweeney’s,” served as a versatile gathering place that helped define Condado as the San Juan district came into its own. (Wikimedia Commons) Owner of renowned Scotch ’n Sirloin dies at 86 By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Tributes of notes and flowers, some faded from the sun, have accumulated on the Condado site where the Sc

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, in the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 5, 2025. Sheinbaum is under pressure to end one of her country’s most painful tragedies: the disappearance of more than 133,000 people. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By PAULINA VILLEGAS Mexico was shocked last year when volunteer search teams discovered an abandoned ranch filled with piles of shoes— too many to be left behind by the owners. To many observers, it was an unmistakable si

By JIN YU YOUNG The U.S. military said it attacked another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing three people and raising the death toll to at least 185 in the campaign against people the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs at sea. The strike was ordered by Gen. Francis Donovan of the Marine Corps, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the command said on social media. An accomp

Speaker of Parliament Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf of Iran during a news conference in Tehran, Dec. 2, 2025. Ghalibaf leads Iran’s negotiating team. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By FARNAZ FASSIHI Iran has offered the United States a new proposal for negotiations that focuses on opening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the U.S. sea blockade on Iran as a way of ending the war and then tackling nuclear negotiations later, according to three Iranian officials. Iran’s for

Short sellers’ bets against U.S. life insurance stocks more than doubled in ⁠the ⁠past year to over $5 billion, a Reuters analysis of ORTEX ⁠data shows, a move that analysts say in part reflects concerns about exposure to the opaque private credit sector. Jitters about private credit - lending ​to companies by non-banks, such as private equity funds and asset managers - have shaped markets in recent months, after portfolio managers were found to hold debt from bankrupt auto f

Nieves González, a 29-year-old painter who once worked in relative obscurity in Andalusia, at a favorite antiques store in Granada, Spain on March 24, 2026. A Baroque-style portrait of Lily Allen, used for an album cover, has made González an overnight art sensation. “It’s like a dream I always had, but times 50,” she said. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ The shushing of brush strokes stopped as Nieves González, painting her latest baroque-style portra

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico, Norberto Negrón Díaz, y el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad para las Alianzas Público-Privadas, Josué Colón, anunciaron el lunes nuevos proyectos de construcción y planes de expansión para los terminales de cruceros en la bahía de San Juan, como parte de una inversión de 45 millones de dólares en los muelles Panamericanos y el diseño de un nuevo terminal en los muelles 11 y 12. “Li

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 148th Artillery Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By DAVID FRENCH A remarkable thing has happened on the world’s battlefields. Ukraine — a nation that was supposed to dissolve within days of a Russian invasion — has fought Russia to a stalemate, revolutionizing land warfare in the process. It has become an indispensable security partner in the Western alliance, including in the war ag