Puerto Rico Baseball Federation announces senior and youth rosters for the Pan American Baseball5 Championship, setfor October 14–17 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The youth team will seek to qualify for the 2027 World Cup. By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Baseball Federation on Thursday announced its senior and youth national team rosters for the Pan American Baseball5 Championship, scheduled for October 14-17 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The youth team will compete for a berth

By ASH WU The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards on Tuesday across the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. Winners will be announced during a ceremony in New York on Nov. 18. The foundation will also honor novelist Salman Rushdie, who was grievously injured during a stabbing in 2022, with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and pediatrician, wr

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, speaks via video during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. He renewed his call for a two-state solution in a videotaped address to the General Assembly, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians “that has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.” For the second year in a row, Abbas did not appear in person at the annual gat

Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, during a Saudi investment event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. The attacks by the Houthis have struck at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans to turn Riyadh into a global travel and business hub. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By VIVIAN NEREIM and EUAN WARD The Iran-backed Houthi militia launched a deadly attack on an international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital on Saturday that Saudi off

By EMILY COCHRANE Last year, Tennessee’s lethal injection execution protocol underwent a striking transformation. The manual laying out the procedure was slashed in half, stripped down from 104 pages in a previous version to 44 pages. Details about certain staff and the single drug now at the heart of the protocol were shrouded in secrecy. And some directions were made vague or vanished altogether, including the requirement that execution teams practice inserting an IV line.

By MAIA SPOTO A deluge of rain and heavy winds has battered the Gulf Coast as Isaias toppled trees and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands, leaving at least four people dead. Isaias was the first Atlantic hurricane during what was otherwise a relatively quiet season. After forming in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm became powerful quickly, reaching Category 3 status at its peak. It was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane before it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar line of attack on Friday morning and Saturday night, castigating the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding the 2026 Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer and international judge. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MARK WALKER President Donald Trump returned to a familiar line of attack Friday morning and Saturday night, castigating the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding the 2026 Peace Prize to Navi

POR EL STAR STAFF La iniciativa “¡Barranquitas brilla por ti!” continuará en los siete barrios y el casco urbano como parte del compromiso de mantener el municipio limpio, bello y ordenado (Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, 10 de octubre de 2026) — Decenas de empleados de todas las dependencias del Municipio de Barranquitas se unieron ayer al alcalde Elliot Colón Blanco en un esfuerzo de limpieza a lo largo de la carretera PR-771, como parte de la iniciativa “¡Barranquitas brilla po

POR EL STAR STAFF Unos 50 maestros y directores de más de 13 escuelas públicas pertenecientes a la región este de la Isla, incluyendo Vieques y Culebra, participaron de un taller sobre los procesos legislativos dirigido a fomentar la participación de los estudiantes en los trámites de la Cámara de Representantes. La iniciativa del presidente cameral, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, busca llevar el proceso parlamentario y la participación ciudadana al salón de clases, brindando a est

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN A festival of artificial intelligence policy incoherence has exploded in recent weeks. It’s a response to AI agents’ going rogue on their developers, rogue actors’ beginning to use AI systems to create better weapons and AI developers’ telling us they need to slow down — but suggesting they can’t unless China does, and even if China does, maybe they shouldn’t because the advantages of leadership in the field are so great. At least one policymaker is clea