The liquefied natural gas carrier Amur River in June 2021 (Facebook via Sinopec) By THE STAR STAFF A spokesperson for New Fortress Energy (NFE) announced on Sunday that the fuel supplier will not deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the tanker ship Amur River. The decision stems from a dispute regarding the resolution and order issued on Sept. 30 by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), which directed the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to halt a $17.6 millio

Rep. Víctor Parés Otero By THE STAR STAFF The Government Committee in the island House of Representatives will convene a high‑level meeting this week at the Capitol to address a technical impasse preventing two completed renewable energy projects from connecting to Puerto Rico’s power grid. Committee chairman Rep. Víctor Parés Otero said the session will bring together executives from Applied Energy Solutions (AES) Puerto Rico and private grid operator LUMA Energy to clarify

Third-Party Procurement Office counsel Osvaldo Carlo Linares By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rico’s attempt to secure 800 megawatts (MW) of temporary generation, an emergency measure meant to keep the lights on during the island’s most vulnerable months, unfolded over 2025 as a prolonged struggle marked by bureaucratic delays, political intervention, supplier disputes and open conflict with federal overseers. Internal chats, revealed by Jay Fonseca, between Energy Czar Josué Colón O

Ann Petrovic, left, and Jeneane “Lefty” Lesko at Beyer Stadium in Rockford, Ill., July 24, 2026. As a group of players from an all-women’s baseball league in the 1940s and ’50s gathered at a recent reunion, the future of women’s baseball looks bright again. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By KEN BELSON More than 70 years ago, the women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in cities across the Midwest were known as the Girls of Summer, and

Specialized equipment at the European Spallation Source, which houses a high-energy proton accelerator — a sort of microscope that can see into basic atomic structures, in Lund, Sweden, July 16, 2026. A Swedish entrepreneur who wants to use decentralized networks modeled on the internet to transform how electricity is distributed has embarked on a novel experiment in Lund, his hometown. (Loulou d’Aki/The New York Times) By PATRICIA COHEN Swedish tech entrepreneur Jonas Birger

“NAZA” (Dogwoof) By MANOHLA DARGIS The new documentary “NAZA” is tough to watch, and impossible to ignore. A shattering inquiry into Israel’s military actions in the war in the Gaza Strip, it was directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who also codirected the 2024 documentary “No Other Land,” about military and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Since the premiere of “NAZA” on Sept. 10 at the Venice Film Festival, their new movie has ignited pus

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR A 27-year-old dual British-Iranian national was arrested Thursday on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, British police said. The man was detained in connection with Sunday’s events near an air base in England that is used by the U.S. military. The man was arrested in central London, and police said they had searched two properties in the area. Counterterrorism police also questioned another man, a 26-year-old British national, authorities said in a sta

One pilot stabbed another at the controls of an Emirati flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, causing it to suddenly plunge thousands of feet until passengers and the crew won a fight to regain control of the plane. By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, AARON BOXERMAN, NATAN ODENHEIMER, ADAM RASGON and THOMAS FULLER At first, it seemed like turbulence. Then like something worse than merely rough air on the flight Wednesday from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Tel Aviv, Israel. “The plane just s

By EMMA GOLDBERG Editors of The Cornell Daily Sun clustered around their computers late Monday, getting ready to send out a letter from the editor. They looked bleary-eyed, and one reporter confessed she had skipped her class on Nietzsche that day. These student journalists at Cornell University were pressing through a dizzying two weeks following the story of a student’s allegation that she was raped on campus in 2024. The case had long had their attention; now it had burst