Wall Street dipped ​on Friday as a robust jobs report raised the probability that the U.S. Federal Reserve will increase its key interest ‌rate at this month’s monetary policy meeting. All three major U.S. indexes closed lower amid a broad selloff ahead of the three-day holiday weekend. For the week, the indexes were essentially unchanged. The Labor Department’s August employment report showed the U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs last month, nearly three times the 56,000 conse

The jazz singer Cassandra Wilson performs at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in Manhattan on Sept. 30, 2011. With a self-possessed vision, Wilson married her easy and intimate tone to jazz, blues and folk experiments, opening the door to a new postmodernism. (Brian Harkin/The New York Times) By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO There is a quality of almost holy slowness in Cassandra Wilson’s music that belies the speed and force with which it changed jazz history. Wilson’s was a voice t

POR CYBERNEWS MAYAGÜEZ – Una muerte violenta y un herido de bala se reportaron a eso de las 9:08 de la noche del sábado en la avenida Concordia, edificio 6, apartamento 14, en Mayagüez. Según el reporte de la Policía, una llamada al Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertó sobre una situación sospechosa. Al llegar los agentes al lugar, encontraron el cadáver de Anyer Agosto Ortiz, de 22 años, con múltiples heridas de bala. Además, encontraron a un hombre de 70 años con heridas de

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El contrato de servicio de ama de llaves del Departamento de la Familia está en una controversia sobre cual entidad es la que tiene que dar su visto bueno. Por un lado, la gobernadora, Jenniffer Aydin González Colón sostiene que espera por la Junta Fiscal para otorgar un contrato multianual, mientras que la administradora de la Administración de Servicios Generales, Karla Mercado Rivera sentenció que la aprobación le correspondía a su agencia. Según e

Many Americans are experiencing more extremely hot days, especially in the South and Midwest. Map shows change in number of over-90F days since 1995. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Summer has long been known for its spirit of adventure and reprieve, found in fire hydrants and backyard sprinklers, campsites and lemonade stands. It was the time of year when the outdoors could be most fearlessly embraced. Now summer has a new set of fixtures: face masks, air purifiers and public health

By RICHARD FAUSSET Kevin Reddington, a veteran trial lawyer, kicked off the defense of his client earlier this summer with an audacious assertion, given that his client is Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts nurse who had admitted to strangling her three young children. “This,” Reddington told 12 jurors in his opening remarks, “is not a righteous prosecution.” Eleven of those jurors voted not to convict Clancy, 36, who claimed she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the

Darrin Francom, assistant general manager for the Central Arizona Project, stands at Central Arizona Project headquarters in Phoenix, Aug. 17, 2026. Decades ago, Arizona won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times) By REIS THEBAULT From a secure, windowless room in northern Phoenix, technicians control the Colorado River

Aguirre power station in Salinas, site of a planned 400-megawatt temporary emergency power facility whose cancelled contract is the subject of a legal dispute between energy supplier Power Expectations and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. By THE STAR STAFF Power Expectations LLC is calling for a formal investigation into what it describes as a pattern of improper conduct, conflicts of interest, and potential corporate espionage involving attorney Javier Vázquez Moral

According to a 2026 analysis by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, Puerto Rico paid $919.7 million in tariffs in 2025, nearly four times the $236.6 million recorded the previous year. (Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics) By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rico absorbed one of its steepest tariff shocks in more than a decade last year, as federal trade policies under President Donald Trump dramatically reshaped the cost of importing goods into the island, according to a report fr

Isabela Mayor Miguel “Ricky” Méndez Pérez, left, signed a memorandum of understanding with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to strengthen ties and share projects of bilateral interest in the tourism, security and recycling sectors. By THE STAR STAFF Isabela Mayor Miguel “Ricky” Méndez Pérez was in Chicago this past weekend as a guest of the Puerto Rican diaspora community there, where a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed with Mayor Brandon Johnson in order to strengthe