President Donald Trump takes the stage to speak in Garden City, N.Y., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By JAMELLE BOUIE The principal aim of President Donald Trump’s second term is revenge. Trump is consumed by this lust for revenge. It defined the first moments of his second term. “Within hours of taking the presidential oath,” my news-side colleagues Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report in “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald T

A destroyed home after the Palisades fire in Los Angeles, Jan. 19, 2025. The man accused of setting the blaze that later turned deadly in the Pacific Palisades is now readying for a new prosecution after a previous effort in June failed. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By MAIA SPOTO and VIK JOLLY A 30-year-old man accused of starting one of the most destructive fires in California history pleaded not guilty earlier this week after federal prosecutors recast the charges aga

By MICHAEL LEVENSON A driver was charged with vehicular homicide Wednesday after officials said he struck members of a college cycling team, killing two, as they were training on a mountain highway in northeast Tennessee. The crash happened around 9 a.m., when the driver of a passenger car struck members of the Milligan University cycling team on Highway 19 near Simerly Creek Road in Carter County, Tennessee, officials said. Milligan University, a Christian school in Milligan

Kahi Young, who persuaded a helicopter company to bring supplies to a rural area of the Big Island that was closed off by road blockages, in Ocean View, Hawaii, Aug. 17, 2026. The parking lot of the Ocean View Market gas station became an improvised relief center after the storm. (Ronit Fahl/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES and JUDSON JONES Hawaii residents faced extensive power outages, submerged bridges and roads, and damaged homes after Hurricane Lala brushed along

Mark Williams has been named president and CEO of Professional Account Management’s Puerto Rico affiliate, the company responsible for managing and operating the AutoExpreso electronic toll system. By THE STAR STAFF Professional Account Management (PAM) announced Thursday the appointment of Mark Williams as president and CEO of its Puerto Rico affiliate, the company responsible for managing and operating the AutoExpreso electronic toll system. Williams, who has spent more tha

Aguirre Power Plant in Salinas, which was to have been the site of a facility that would supply 400 megawatts of electricity on a temporary basis under an emergency-generation contract with Power Expectations that was cancelled. By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has directed power grid operator LUMA Energy to deliver an updated analysis of the island’s temporary generation needs within 10 days, citing major shifts in the condition of the power system and

Puerto Rican Independence Party legislators Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón, left foreground, and Sen. Adrián González Costa filed two measures on Thursday calling for the termination of the Genera PR contract to operate the island’s legacy power plants and an investigation into the future operations of the AES coal plant, as well as government efforts to convert it to natural gas. By THE STAR STAFF Lawmakers from the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) filed two measures on Thur

By THE STAR STAFF A recent audit by the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico of the Financial Advisory and Fiscal Agency Authority (AAFAF by its initials in Spanish) uncovered severe financial mismanagement, systemic record-keeping failures and millions in unmonitored government funds. The extensive review evaluated the handling of $13.8 billion in bond issuance proceeds and related government debt from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024. AAFAF is the entity that acts as the

Puerto Rico is facing a sharp and troubling escalation of its mid‑summer drought, with extreme conditions now affecting 33.31% of the island, a figure that represents nearly double the coverage reported just one week ago. The expansion is most pronounced in the island’s east, south and southwest. By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rico is facing a sharp and troubling escalation of its mid‑summer drought, with extreme conditions now affecting 33.31% of the island, according to the lates