The Latest Breaking News from Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rican crested anole has sprouted special scales to better cling to smooth surfaces like walls and windows and grown larger limbs to sprint across open areas, scientists say.

U.S. scientists in Puerto Rico have found that forest-dwelling lizards have genetically morphed to survive life in the city

PHILADELPHIA — Roberto Clemente Jr. was dressing for his first spring training workout in February 1986 when a Phillies official alerted him to a group of reporters waiting outside the clubhouse in Clearwater, Fla. He signed with the team a month earlier for $40,000. Now the press wanted to know…

Roberto Clemente remains one of the most revered figures in Puerto Rico and Latin America 50 years after his death

A 3-year-old child presumed to be from Haiti died Friday morning after a migrant boat capsized on the beaches of the Puerto Rican beach town of Rincón, according to local and federal authorities, the latest such voyage near the American territory to turn deadly.

We talk a lot in these pages about self-determination, whether it be for the people of Iran, China, Ukraine or elsewhere where the preferences of ordinary folks are made secondary to grander designs by self-appointed leaders (including certain U.S. leaders who would like to choose their voters as opposed to…

The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.

Lawyer in a civil lawsuit launched by towns in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico describes why it is using laws used to target mob bosses

On the face of it, the Puerto Rico Status Act marks by far the most significant step toward ending the commonwealth’s status as a de facto U.S. colony in more than a century.