President Donald Trump, left, meets with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF After the U.S.-China summit planned for Thursday, President Donald Trump may crow about his deal-making skill. Aides may suggest that he deserves a Nobel Prize for negotiation — but I invite you to roll your eyes. The most important bilateral relationship in the world today is between the United State

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, speaks during a canvassing event at McCaffrey Playground in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 2025. Mamdani has said he cannot support Israel as long as it is an officially Jewish state — more than 1,100 American rabbis are warning that the safety of Jews is at risk. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By LISA LERER and JENNIFER MEDINA The controversy over Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel has moved well beyond New York Ci

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters alongside other Republican senators outside the West Wing after a lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Oct. 21, 2025. Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo — for now, both sides remain dug in as the government shutdown heads into a fifth week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CARL HULSE and CATIE EDMONDSON Senate Republicans were confident that

By THE STAR STAFF Airbnb announced Thursday it will activate its anti-party system during Halloween weekend in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada to prevent unauthorized activities in accommodations and protect both hosts and local communities. The system, which uses machine learning technology, evaluates factors such as reservation duration, distance between the guest and the accommodation, property type, and last-minute requests to identify and block high-risk bookin

Sen. Ada Álvarez Conde By THE STAR STAFF Sen. Ada Álvarez Conde on Thursday revealed the findings of a request for information (2025-0114) she authored along with other recent data regarding Law 60, which she asserted has become a direct subsidy to inequality, granting millionaire tax exemptions to resident investors without requiring them to create significant jobs for Puerto Rico. Álvarez Conde revealed that the fiscal cost of Law 60 exceeds $7.462 billion, funds that the g

La Fondita de Jesús Executive Director Geraldine Bayrón Rivera said the services expansion plan will operate under an emergency response model, much like the one implemented after the hurricanes and during the COVID-19 pandemic. By THE STAR STAFF La Fondita de Jesús announced Thursday that it plans to expand its food program for homeless individuals and senior citizens if funding for the Nutritional Assistance Program (PAN by its acronym in Spanish) in Puerto Rico is frozen.

Various studies have shown that the over 1.2 gigawatts of installed solar power capacity, a clean, local and free energy source measured through net metering, is helping to supply Puerto Rico’s electricity needs. (Pexels) By THE STAR STAFF Solar United Neighbors (SUN) and the Solar and Energy Storage Association of Puerto Rico (SESA), intervening parties in the rate review case before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) – on Thursday announced an agreement with LUMA Energy t

Puerto Rico Restaurants Association President Carlos Budet Rivera Schatz welcomes committee By THE STAR STAFF Several associations representing the country’s main productive sectors expressed their disappointment Thursday with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s decision to veto House Bill (HB) 420, a measure that sought to eliminate the inventory tax. “Puerto Rico lost today. With this veto, the Governor missed an opportunity to make history and stand with the people, despite th