Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes emphasized that funding for the rock revetment project has been available since November of last year, but state-level permitting remains a critical pending step in addressing coastal erosion in Parcelas Suárez. By THE STAR STAFF Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes announced Wednesday that the municipality has received official authorization from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to carry out rock revetment projects -- commonly referred

The court emphasized that litigants cannot challenge an administrative process they never attempted to use. By THE STAR STAFF A Puerto Rico appellate court has overturned a February ruling that barred the government from requiring journalists to present a Department of State press credential to attend press conferences at La Fortaleza, concluding that the trial court acted prematurely and without following required procedures and that the dispute amounted to little more than

The Milwaukee Brewers believe they will get more than their money’s worth out of shortstop Cooper Pratt. (Instagram via mlbtransactionsdaily) By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC If pro baseball is broken, perhaps someone can explain how the team in MLB’s smallest television market is about to guarantee $50.75 million to a former sixth-round pick who has yet to play in the majors and last season had only a .691 on-base plus slugging percentage in Double-A. Actually, the explanatio

Honey date bran muffins. The natural nutty sweetness of wheat bran shines in these tender muffins, sticky with honey and dates. Food styled by Spencer Richards. (Julia Gartland/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE KO In the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!,” the signature song opens with: Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain / And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet / When the wind comes right behind the rain. Those lyrics capture wheat bran at its b

The phrase “trauma bonding” has been used online to describe connections built through shared suffering, but experts say that’s all wrong. (Vanessa Saba/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA CARON As a young girl, Lilli Correll both loved and feared her mother. In good times, she felt special — her mother affectionately called her Monkey, and they often laughed together. “I was her favorite child,” said Correll, now 55 and living in Austin, Texas. But at other times her mother, wh

OpenAI’s ChatGPT on a laptop in San Francisco, March 21, 2025. As tech companies prepare to release new and more powerful AI systems in the coming weeks, cybersecurity experts have become increasingly vocal in their warnings that A.I. technologies are fundamentally changing cybersecurity. (Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times) By CADE METZ and KATE CONGER Anthropic said late last year that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had used its artificial intelligence technology in an ef

A Roma family walks back home from school in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 25, 2026. Drastic changes to Hungary’s education system have widened the divide between Roma and other students in Hungary. (Tamas Paczai/The New York Times) By LARA JAKES and MATE HALMOS The party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary is facing parliamentary elections on Sunday that are expected to be exceptionally close. And the marginalized Roma ethnic minority may prove to be an unexpected swing vote

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR In the face of threats by President Donald Trump to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages,” the British government on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained opposed to American use of British bases for anything other than defensive purposes. During a media briefing with journalists, the prime minister’s spokesperson declined to say whether British officials had explicitly told the United States not to launch attacks from their territory on civi

Textbooks and papers amid the rubble of a building at Sharif University in Tehran, Iran after it was targeted by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, FARNAZ FASSIHI, JULIAN E. BARNES, RONEN BERGMAN and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to wipe out a “whole civilization” and the United States hit military targets on Iran’s main oil export hub, as he ramped up pressure on Iran to f