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LOS ANGELES — The Biden administration wants countries along a dangerous migration route running through South and Central America to commit to expanding their asylum system and enforcing their borders to help address the unprecedented flow of migrants at its southern border with Mexico, in a new regional partnership that…

Members of Congress were in San Juan this weekend for contentious public hearings on the draft Puerto Rico Status Act.

MIAMI — They were told to dress totally in black and to leave cellphones and all identifying documents, including passports, behind.

Roughly $7.5m of drugs seized

Public support for a proposal that would trigger a referendum to determine Puerto Rico’s political future will be key to forcing the measure through the US Senate where it faces stiff Republican resistance, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva said.

Hundreds of Puerto Ricans have crowded into a convention center where federal legislators are holding a public hearing to decide the future of the island’s political status as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from hurricanes, earthquakes and a deep economic crisis

A congressional delegation including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., jetted into Puerto Rico Thursday for talks as Congress prepares to consider a bill that could lead to a decisive vote on statehood.

Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company has been hit by a federal lawsuit demanding that it provide services to thousands of residents who lack potable water on a daily basis

Johnny Williams carried himself through the countryside of Puerto Rico like a wealthy but down-to-earth “gringo” with a generous heart. In the run-up to Christmas, he would organize toy drives for children of the barrio, which earned him the respect of everyone in his neighborhood in the town of Canóvanas.

Poets laureate and other literary luminaries from all 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico recommend quintessential reads that illuminate where they live.

Ron Howard's absorbing new documentary about chef José Andrés and his nonprofit relief organization, World Central Kitchen, opens with Andrés' team navigating flooded roads to deliver food after 2018's Hurricane Florence. Soon enough we'll see him visiting Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, then Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in…