Global markets have entered a period of heightened uncertainty ahead of a deadline set by ⁠U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump for Iran, with investors weighing various outcomes ⁠ranging from a ceasefire to renewed military escalation and their implications for oil, currencies and risky assets. Iran showed no sign of agreeing to ​Trump’s demand that it open the Strait of Hormuz by the end of Tuesday or suffer massive attacks on its civilian infrastructure in what would be the bigges

The lovers are played by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. By MAHOHLA DARGIS “The Drama” is a clever, deeply unserious movie about male panic in the guise of an edgy romantic comedy. It’s bright and shiny and aggressively nasty, and centers on a couple who meet, fall in love, become engaged and experience a relationship crisis of outlandish proportions. Screen romances tend to be catnip, and that’s certainly true in this case because the lovers are played by Zendaya and Robert Pa

POR EL STAR STAFF SAN JUAN – El alcalde de la ciudad capital, Miguel A. Romero Lugo, participó el martes en la graduación de la Novena Academia de la Policía Municipal del Colegio Universitario de San Juan, donde se integraron 48 nuevos cadetes al servicio público, incluyendo 46 que se suman a la Policía Municipal de San Juan y 2 al municipio de Canóvanas. La formación de esta academia representó una inversión aproximada de $2,056,523.65, como parte de los esfuerzos del Munic

POR EL STAR STAFF CAROLINA – La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, anunció el martes la reapertura del Centro Metropolitano de Investigaciones y Denuncias (CMID) en Carolina, una iniciativa de política pública dirigida a fortalecer el acceso ágil, directo y eficiente a los servicios de justicia en la región este. “La justicia no puede depender de la distancia y cuando una persona necesita radicar una denuncia, cuando un agente necesita consultar un caso, cu

Republican lawmakers, Cabinet members and senior advisers to President Donald Trump applaud during hiss State of the Union address, in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Capitol building in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT Kristi Noem is gone. Pam Bondi is out. If there’s going to be a fall guy for our ill-starred regime-change operation in Iran, it’s likely to be Pete Hegseth, whose prewar overconfidence is being highlight

An Artemis II crew selfie midway through their lunar observation period on Monday, April 6, 2026. Clockwise from bottom, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch. While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA personnel have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public. (NASA via The New York Times) By KATRINA MILLER During their historic lunar flyby Monday, the astronauts of the NASA mission Artemis II were w

Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank embraces Annie Ramos, his newlywed wife and an undocumented immigrant who arrived as a toddler, after her release from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, La., on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Blank’s mother, Jen Rickling, looks on. Ramos, who was detained last week at her husband’s Army base, was released on Tuesday after spending five days at the detention center with hundreds of other women facing deportation as part of the Trump adminis

Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo By THE STAR STAFF Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced on Tuesday that the municipality has closed its 2024-2025 Single Audit for the Community Development Block Grant-State program with no pending findings, according to a communication from the island Housing Department. “This result is no coincidence; it is the product of an administration that has instilled order, discipline, and real execution in the management of federal funds,” A

Last month, House Vice Speaker Ángel Peña Ramírez and Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés announced a recommended transfer of $100,000 to support the operations of the Christian School for Autism and Mentoring Children of Puerto Rico in Las Piedras. By THE STAR STAFF The island House of Representatives has implemented a series of historic initiatives aimed at improving the services received by children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including unprecedented

Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve By THE STAR STAFF Independent Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve announced Monday night that she has formally requested that Gov. Jenniffer González Colón repeal an executive order banning so-called conversion therapies for minors. The executive order, OE-2019-016, was signed in 2019 by former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares and prohibits the practice of conversion therapies on individuals under the age of 18. In a statement posted on social media, Rodríguez