Brady Manek (45) scored 21 points for Ponce in a loss to Quebradillas. Quebradillas downs Ponce with late run By THE STAR STAFF The Vaqueros of Bayamón used smothering defense and a high-velocity transition game in a 105-63 thrashing of the outmanned Capitanes of Arecibo at Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón on Tuesday night. With the victory, the defending champions returned to first place in Conference A of the Superior National Basketball league, while struggling Arecib

Israeli settlers attack two men who were harvesting their olive trees in Huwara in the West Bank, Oct. 9, 2025. Six countries are imposing coordinated sanctions on networks that they say have financed and supported violence carried out against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Britain’s foreign office said on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By LYNSEY CHUTEL Six countries are imposing coordinated sanctions on networks that

By JASON HOROWITZ There is apparently room for Bad Bunny in La Casita of the Lord. The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Leo, who is making his first trip as pontiff to Spain, had a brief meeting Monday evening with the reggaeton star, who was also touring Madrid. Bad Bunny’s visit involved packed megaconcerts featuring celebrities bumping and grinding in La Casita, a replica of a traditional Puerto Rican home. “I confirm it,” a Vatican spokesperson, Matteo Bruni, told reporters

Foreign investors pulled nearly $27 ⁠billion ⁠net from emerging market portfolios in May, ⁠partially reversing a rebound in April as equity selling in Asia overwhelmed debt inflows, ​data from a banking trade group showed on Wednesday. Non-resident investors withdrew a net $26.6 billion from emerging bonds and stocks in May, ‌according to the Institute of International Finance, ‌compared with inflows of $70.6 billion in April. The reversal was driven almost entirely by equiti

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El director ejecutivo de la Junta Fiscal, Robert Mujica prohibió a los alcaldes poner en vigor las leyes 215 y la Ley 141 que les permiten cobrar arbitrios de construcción a proyectos pagados con fondos federales. En una carta a los presidentes de la Federación y de la Asociación de Alcaldes, Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez y Jorge González Otero respectivamente, Mujica advirtió que ambas leyes “no pueden implementarse hasta que la Junta concluya que las

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – La secretaria de Justicia, Lourdes Gómez Torres, informó el miércoles que recomendó al Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente investigar presuntas actuaciones indebidas de 2 exfuncionarios de la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (OGPe). “Nuestra recomendación es el resultado directo de una rigurosa investigación preliminar realizada por la División de Integridad Pública y Asuntos del Contralor del Departamento de Justicia”, destacó Gómez Torres en

Signage for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, April 16, 2026. One month short of America’s 250th birthday, it’s clear that we won’t be getting an extravagant and unifying celebration of American greatness and patriotism. (Hannah Beier/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT One month short of America’s 250th birthday, it’s clear that we won’t be getting an extravagant and unifying celebration of American

Graham Platner takes the stage at his election night watch party with his wife, Amy Gertner, after he won the Democratic nomination for Senate, in Blue Hill, Maine, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Platner, the progressive oyster farmer who toppled Maine’s political establishment even as a series of unsettling revelations about his past rattled his party, won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. (Sophie Park/The New York Times) By KELLE

Federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, Jan. 28, 2026. The House on Tuesday, June 9, narrowly voted to take up Republicans’ $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, clearing a key hurdle to enacting the measure to fund President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown through the end of his term. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By CATIE EDMONDSON The House earlier this week narrowly passed Republicans’ $70 billion immigration enforcement b

Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera By THE STAR STAFF Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera has introduced the “Puerto Rico Democratic Self-Determination Act” in Congress. The measure would allow Puerto Rico residents to vote in a binding plebiscite on statehood, independence, sovereignty in free association, and the option to maintain and improve the commonwealth, or ELA (Estado Libre Asociado) in Spanish. The resident commissioner said the ballot d