Flooding concerns in Puerto Rico; thunderstorms across southeast U.S. The main weather feature and focus for showers and thunderstorms through this weekend will be a cold front progressing across the East and stalling between the Southeast and southern Texas. The U.S. 04/19/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Hartford makes progress on plan for Puerto Rican Culture Center The now boarded-up Sacred Heart Church in the Clay Arsenal neighborhood of Hartford will undergo some big changes. This morning, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam announced that the city has taken steps to ... 04/18/2024 - 10:52 am | View Link
Puerto Rican Holyoke native strives to buy home, build wealth Like others in this city’s large Puerto Rican community, Nereida Badillo longed for a more stable life. But history is difficult to overcome. 04/17/2024 - 10:53 pm | View Link
The 20 Best Hotels In Puerto Rico The best hotels in Puerto Rico include a city hotel in a historic convent and a luxury beach resort frequented by celebrities. Here's where to stay in 2024. 04/12/2024 - 6:44 am | View Link
Coast Guard Repatriates 101 Migrants to Dominican Republic After Puerto Rico Interdictions The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos repatriated 101 migrants to Dominican Republic, Monday, following three interdictions of unlawful, irregular migration attempts during the weekend ... 04/12/2024 - 12:55 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to advance a bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. Several hardline Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, were opposed to the bill. Republicans may move to oust him as House Speaker for allowing the vote.
Another prospective alternate juror in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is excused after saying she couldn't serve and starting to cry. CNN's Kristen Holmes reports.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.