Puerto Rico

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend.

On Jan. 26, large-scale arrests began, angering many local officials and civil leaders who have created programs to shield and help the island’s immigrants as authorities step up raids to a scale never before seen in Puerto Rico.

COMMENTARY With reggaeton star Bad Bunny's support, and after seeing President Trump's terrifying start, independence movements in territories like Puerto Rico and Greenland look energized.

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island prepared for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago.

Officials say it could take up to two days to restore power. The private company that oversees electricity transmission and distribution says it appears the outage was caused by a failure in an underground power line.

Though they keep losing Latino voters like Cubans and Venezuelans, Democrats thought Puerto Ricans were the one bloc that would stick with them. But Trump performed unexpectedly well with them last month, even in South Florida.

Puerto Rico's pro-independence party looked like it had little chance to win the island's gubernatorial race — until vile comments were made about the U.S. territory at a Trump rally last week. It still looked likely to lose to the pro-statehood party on Tuesday, but the closer contest may signal a new political dynamic there.

Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins.

A comedian who spoke at Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Madison Square Garden referred to the U.S. territory as a “floating island of garbage,” prompting immediate backlash.

Bad Bunny is one of the most famous artists of the moment. His support is a huge boost for the Harris campaign as it tries to maintain the demographic’s support.

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist.

Delegates from Puerto Rico referred to the island territory as "the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the next state of the United States" before casting their votes for Kamala Harris during Tuesday night's roll call.