The Criollos of Caguas pulled out a 100-99 overtime victory over the Vaqueros of Bayamón on Tuesday night while wearing uniforms honoring one of Puerto Rico’s roundball legends, José “Piculín” Ortíz, who died of cancer early in the day. By THE STAR STAFF The Criollos of Caguas defeated the visiting Vaqueros of Bayamón 100-99 in overtime on Tuesday night at Roger Mendoza Coliseum. As a tribute to Puerto Rican basketball great José Rafael “Piculín” Ortíz Rijos, who died early

Rudy Gobert has been the person most responsible for the Minnesota Timberwolves’ evolution into a defensive-minded team. (Reddit via r/Timberwolves) By JARED WEISS / THE ATHLETIC After an NBA game in January, Rudy Gobert, the Minnesota Timberwolves center, racked his brain for a message to send to his protege, Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs, in the opposing locker room. “Ask him if he can beat me at chess without the timer bailing him out,” Gobert suggested to a r

The Cardón oil refinery in Punta Cardón, Venezuela, Jan. 29, 2026. Trump officials and their Venezuelan allies have promised a new era of accountability to unlock the country’s immense oil wealth, but the oil industry remains a black hole. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV U.S. and Venezuelan officials have promised a new era of accountability for Venezuela’s lucrative oil industry after the downfall of President Nicolás Maduro. President Do

President Donald Trump speaks during a Military Mother’s Day event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Iran said on Wednesday that it was reviewing an American proposal to end the war, a day after President Trump abruptly paused a new U.S. military effort to protect ships in the Strait of Hormuz, citing “great progress” in talks with Tehran. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By LEO SANDS, QASIM NAUMAN, MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL LEV

Hedge funds pounced on the ⁠U.S./Iran ceasefire to post positive performances in April, with some ​reaping returns from bullish bets placed just before the April 8 ceasefire announcement, reports ‌from prime brokerages and industry ‌analysts show. Stock pickers returned more than 9% in April, their best monthly performance ⁠since Goldman ⁠Sachs started keeping track in 2016, said the prime brokerage in ​a note to clients on Saturday. The S&P 500 index rallied over 10% in Apri

“Good News” By DEVIKA GIRISH ‘Good News’ Real life is truly stranger than fiction, as proven by this Korean dark comedy, whose harebrained premise, you’ll be amazed to know, is lifted from a true story. In 1970, members of Japan’s Red Army Faction, a militant communist group, hijacked a Japanese Airlines plane and demanded it be flown to North Korea. Together, Japanese and Korean officials hatched a plan to direct the plane to Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, which they d

Dr. Isaac Esquilín, Presidente Huertas College Durante años, el sistema educativo ha promovido una lógica clara: estudiar más años equivale a mejores oportunidades. Sin embargo, en la práctica, muchos egresados enfrentan una realidad distinta: dificultad para conseguir empleo, subempleo o dependencia total de un mercado laboral limitado. En este contexto, las carreras cortas están emergiendo no solo como una alternativa educativa, sino como una plataforma real para el emprend

Ukrainian soldiers train in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, April 7, 2026. President Trump’s “policy toward Ukraine looks like everything his Iran policy is not: an effective rebalancing for a multipolar world, in which a major rival has been contained and weakened with a reduced American commitment ...,” Times columnist Ross Douthat writes. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT One of the many ironies of Donald Trump’s war against Iran is that only a ye

By MINHO KIM, GLENN THRUSH, JACEY FORTIN and JIN YU YOUNG The man accused of shooting at Secret Service agents on the National Mall in Washington expressed hostility toward the White House after he was wounded and taken into custody, authorities said earlier this week, as prosecutors prepared federal charges against him. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said in an interview with ABC News that the man would be charged with an assault on a federal officer and discharg