On March 10 in Villalba, sprinters from the Eugenio Guerra Cruz Specialized Sports Community School of the Olympic Hostel qualified for the prestigious Penn Relays in the demanding 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter events. By THE STAR STAFF The Eugenio Guerra Cruz Specialized Sports Community School of the Olympic Hostel (ECEDAO by its initials in Spanish) in Salinas will see a distinguished group of its young athletes represent Puerto Rico at the 130th edition of the prestigious P

What travelers should know about measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases; with vaccination rates down, here’s how to protect yourself and your family. (Weston Wei/The New York Times) By PERRI KLASS, M.D. With misinformation and disinformation, vaccination rates for measles are worryingly down, and other serious — though vaccine-preventable — diseases are also showing up, among them, whooping cough, rotavirus, meningitis and serious cases of influenza. Doctors are also

Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in Cupertino, Calif., June 6, 2022. The longtime chief executive of the iPhone maker said on Monday, April 20, 2026, that he will step down. He will be replaced by John Ternus, the company’s head of hardware engineering. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By KALLEY HUANG and TRIPP MICKLE Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said Monday that he would step down after nearly 15 years running an operation that rode

Videos circulating online earlier this week show tourists ducking at the bottom of the Pyramid of the Moon (seen here), the second largest in Teotihuacán, amid the sound of gunfire. One Canadian tourist was shot dead and several other people were wounded, including U.S. nationals, officials said, when a man opened fire Monday at one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, the Teotihuacán pyramids just outside Mexico City. The gunman then shot and killed himself, author

By LAURA CHUNG New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, and the surrounding region were under a state of emergency Tuesday, after heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides that swept away cars, forced more than 100 schools to close, and buried roads and homes. Some areas recorded more than 3 inches of rain within an hour, the country’s weather agency, MetService, said. The emergency declaration, made by the authorities Monday afternoon, gives them more power to respond an

Workers stand near the graves of Hezbollah members as they take a break from digging in a damaged cemetery in the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. The U.S. State Department will host a second round of ambassador-level talks between Israel and Lebanon, which are in a cease fire, on Thursday, the department said. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER, JONATHAN SWAN, FARNAZ FASSIHI and SOMINI SENGUPTA President Donald Trump

UnitedHealth opened the first quarter’s earnings season for insurers ⁠with ⁠a strong performance, raising its annual profit ⁠forecast and surpassing Wall Street expectations for quarterly earnings and revenue. The upbeat results gave a ​boost to the shares of the conglomerate, which has faced a series of setbacks over the past two years, including a cyberattack ‌on its technology arm, rising medical costs ‌and the killing of its insurance unit chief, which sparked a public ba

Brad Pitt plays a former racing phenom in search of redemption in “F1.” (2025) (Warner Bros. Pictures/Apple Original Films) By ROBERT DANIELS Not too long ago, movie stars generated Hollywood’s cultural cachet and powered its economic engine. A movie star’s aspirational visage, honed for public appeal, could turn sometimes even small-scale movies into large-scale hits garnering over $100 million. For the last couple of decades, those days have felt like a faint memory. The bo

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El Tribunal de Apelaciones paralizó el martes la orden que requería al secretario de Hacienda, Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez, entregar documentos relacionados con el caso del exsecretario Antonio Sagardía de Jesús, sin resolver todavía la controversia de fondo. “Esta determinación no conlleva la adjudicación de las controversias planteadas ante nuestra consideración”, indicó la resolución. El panel estuvo compuesto por la jueza presidenta Monsita Rivera Ma

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – LUMA Energy informó el martes que realiza relevos de carga por deficiencias en la generación de energía, situación que dejó sin servicio eléctrico a 205,778 clientes en Puerto Rico, según el más reciente estatus divulgado por la empresa. “Se están llevando a cabo relevos de carga debido a deficiencias en la generación de energía. Esto significa que algunos clientes podrían experimentar interrupciones temporales del servicio”, indicó LUMA Energy. “Aunq