Santurce Crabbers catcher Brian Navarreto playing for the Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp earlier this year. Navarreto’s two-run single in the fifth inning gave Santurce a commanding 7-0 lead over the Caguas Criollos on Sunday in Caguas. (Wikipedia) By THE STAR STAFF The Ponce Lions, Santurce Crabbers and Carolina Giants all notched victories Sunday night in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish). A home run by Chris Arroyo led

Puerto Rico’s bronze medal was its second medal in the NORCECA Girls’ U-17 Continental Championship. The team won silver in 2023. (NORCECA) By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rico defeated the Dominican Republic in four sets (25-22, 29-27, 11-25 and 25-19) on Sunday afternoon to win the bronze medal at the 2025 NORCECA Girls’ U-17 Continental Championship at the National Gymnasium in San José, Costa Rica. It was the second medal for Puerto Rico in the tournament, following a silver in

James Watson, who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA, in the Library of the Human Genome at the Wellcome Collection in London, June 20, 2007. The discovery of the structure of DNA in the early 1950s is one of the most riveting dramas in the history of science, crammed with brilliant research, naked ambition, intense rivalry and outright deception. (Jonathan Player/The New York Times) By CARL ZIMMER The discovery of the structure of DNA in the early 1950s is one

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? (Derek Abella/The New York Times) By BRIAN X. CHEN Last spring, Shiri Melumad, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, gave a group of 250 people a simple writing assignment: Share advice with a friend on how to lead a healthier lifestyle. To come up with tips, some were allowed to use a traditional Google search, while others cou

Canceled flights on a flight boards at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By NIRAJ CHOKSHI Thousands of flights were canceled this past weekend after federal restrictions on flying were put in place at the nation’s busiest airports. And the cuts are expected to grow in the coming days, threatening to wreak further havoc for airlines and travelers as Thanksgiving approaches. The Federal Aviation Adm

People walk by the Hangar Convention Center in Belém, Brazil on June 25, 2025, venue of the COP30 global climate summit this month. World leaders shared vivid stories about the increasingly severe effects of a warming planet last Friday, the second day of the summit. (María Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times) By DAVID GELLES and BRAD PLUMER In Spain, intense heat waves and floods have claimed thousands of lives in recent years. In Namibia, higher temperatures have resulte

Typhoon Fung-wong in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Categorized as a super typhoon by the state weather bureau, Fung-wong made landfall Sunday evening in Aurora province, on the country’s main island of Luzon. (Wikipedia/TheNuggeteer) By JASON GUTIÉRREZ High waves whipped up by Typhoon Fung-wong swamped Sinbanali, a seaside village near the Philippine capital of Manila, forcing residents to flee their homes amid torrential rain. Ivy Villamor said the storm’s menacing h

With an end to the U.S. government shutdown potentially on the horizon, investors who feared more economic fallout breathed easier and turned to an expected flood of delayed data to shed more light on growth and the likely path for interest rates. Markets on Monday welcomed the prospect of a federal reopening. Stocks are recouping some of their losses from last week, following news late on Sunday that the U.S. Senate reached a compromise and moved forward on a measure aimed a