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Conflict Between Iran and Israel Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring in Puerto Rico
The Weekly Journal
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June 18, 2025
In early June, images of the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel spread across the globe. As tensions intensified, gasoline prices surged, delivering yet another blow to consumers’ wallets. In Puerto Rico, fuel prices have risen by three...
DoDEA Launches Seal of Biliteracy to Prepare Students for a Global World
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 10, 2025
PEACHTREE CITY, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES 07.10.2025 Knowing multiple languages opens doors in a world where business, travel, and friendships cross borders with ease. Starting in the 2025-26 school year, the Department of Defense Education Activity...
Bad Bunny calls out ICE for conducting raids in Puerto Rico
Los Angeles Times
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June 18, 2025
Bad Bunny has chimed in on the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that are taking place in his native Puerto Rico and all over the country. The 31-year-old “Nuevayol” singer posted to Instagram a video, with commentary, of ICE...
Cuba Again Calls for Puerto Rican Independence; Puerto Rico and U.S. Officials Respond
Puerto Rico Report
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June 18, 2025
Although the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization did not vote on a Puerto Rico resolution this year, unlike in past years, that did not stop a U.N. representative from Cuba from speaking up on the matter. The statement drew rebukes...
Siena Heights University to close amid whistleblower lawsuit from former CFO
CFO Magazine
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July 10, 2025
Siena Heights University, a 106-year-old Catholic institution in Adrian, Michigan, will close its doors at the end of the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year due to financial and operational challenges. The move comes months after the firing of its...
Bad Bunny's Residency Set to Generate $200 Million for Puerto Rico — Manager Noah Assad Takes Us Inside the Record-Breaking Shows
Variety
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June 18, 2025
What’s on Noah Assad’s list of things to complete in the weeks leading up to July 11, the opening night of Bad Bunny’s historic 30-date residency at Coliseo de Puerto Rico? “We’re going to need to open up some more seats,” Assad, 35, tells...
Iowa women's golf team announces 2025-26 schedule
Iowa City Today
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July 10, 2025
The University of Iowa women's golf team, led by head coach Megan Menzel, has announced its 2025-26 schedule. The Hawkeyes will host the Diane Thomason Invitational at Finkbine Golf Course for the second consecutive fall. The team's fall season...
Insider Say Orioles Could Shake Up Trade Deadline Market
Heavy.com
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June 29, 2025
Getty The Baltimore Orioles might be buried in the standings, but don’t be fooled — they could hold the keys to the 2025 MLB trade deadline. Despite a 35-47 record that places them 11.5 games behind the AL East-leading New York Yankees, insiders...
USDA: 45 Million Acres of American Land Owned by Foreign Entities
The Virginia Star
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July 11, 2025
by Thérèse Boudreaux Nearly 46 million acres of forest and farmland are held by foreign investors, including by countries hostile to America, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Foreign Farm Land Purchases map,...
Bad Bunny blasts ICE in expletive-laden rant as he shares footage of raids in Puerto Rico
The Independent
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June 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Taylor gunning for victory ahead of third Serrano bout
RTE Ireland
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July 11, 2025
Once more unto the breach. For the third time in just over three years, Katie Taylor stepped onto the scales ahead of a world title clash with Amanda Serrano, cheered on by Irish fans peppered throughout the Madison Square Garden theatre. As music...
Puerto Rico must revise broadband plan to comply with new BEAD rules
News is My Business
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June 12, 2025
The Puerto Rico Broadband Program must now create a new competitive selection process for broadband providers that complies with the revised rules. (Credit: Kittichai Boonpong | Dreamstime.com) Puerto Rico, which was allocated more than $334...
Puerto Rico native killed in suspected reckless driving crash in downtown Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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Iris Feliciano-Hernandez, 30, was killed in a car crash in Milwaukee on June 7. Tremayne Brown, 20, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide for allegedly driving 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and running a red light. Feliciano-Hernandez moved to...
Six key trends emerging from Cannes Lions 2025
The Media Online
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July 10, 2025
This year, the creativity on display was truly global, with first-time grand prix wins for Puerto Rico and the Czech Republic, plus a first time Lion for Uruguay, while Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland and Mongolia joined the...
Open & Shut: Milloh!; Bodega & Vino; The Cocktail Coach
Baltimore - Maryland
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July 10, 2025
OPEN Milloh!: Maybe it’s a twin thing, maybe it’s inherently the road you take when your family is in the restaurant business. Elmer Rodgriguez, the younger twin brother to Marvin by seven minutes, grew up making pupusas and other Salvadoran...
Eight charged with fraud conspiracy involving identity theft in Puerto Rico
Evergreen Reporter - Washington
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June 17, 2025
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | https://www.justice.gov/Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | https://www.justice.gov/ On June 12, 2025, a federal grand jury indicted eight individuals in Puerto Rico on charges of conspiracy to commit...
‘My Job Is to F—ing Sing’: Bad Bunny on the 'Pride, Pain and Love' Behind His Massive Puerto Rico Residency and the Relationships That Define…
Variety
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June 18, 2025
It’s a drizzly May afternoon when I arrive at the Equinox Hotel in Hudson Yards to interview one of the world’s biggest music stars. Before I can even introduce myself to Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — known to millions as Bad Bunny — a security...
787 Coffee is bringing a taste of Puerto Rico to New York City, one cup at a time
WABC ABC 7 - New York
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June 17, 2025
NEW YORK, New York (WABC) -- With its many locations across the city, 787 Coffee brings a taste of Puerto Rico to New Yorkers - a mission co-founder Brandon Ivan Peña refuses to give up on, no matter what obstacles stand in his way. "We stand for...
Puerto Rican movement to rejoin Spain gains traction
Azzet
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June 11, 2025
Puerto Rico's political movement to leave the United States and rejoin Spain is gaining traction. The nation is currently a U.S. territory, but calls are growing for a realignment with Spain. The Caribbean country has not had ties with Spain for...
The Year Arms Contractors Stopped Sponsoring Pride
Inkstick Media
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July 10, 2025
This year, corporations across the country have quietly pulled their sponsorship from local pride parades. Companies that once faced criticism for surface-level allyship — changing their logos to rainbow colors during Pride month, for instance —...