Transgender Puerto Ricans under the age of 21 will no longer have access to gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgeries under legislation signed this week by the U.S. territory’s Republican Gov.

With this in mind, it’s time to wake up from Pretendland because Puerto Rico deserves more than an invitation to erase itself. The fever dream of statehood, of assimilation without annihilation, is ...

WASHINGTON, July 12. -- An order has been issued by the President extending the privileges and protection of the American flag to the shipping of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

Histories of Puerto Rico generally begin, as Mr. Meléndez-Badillo’s does, with the Taínos, a shadowy Caribbean tribe that inhabited the island before Europeans arrived.

The official in charge of addressing Puerto Rico’s power crisis is pushing to move forward with New Fortress Energy Inc.’s ...

All 1.4 million Luma Energy clients across Puerto Rico were without power on Wednesday. The blackout comes less than five months after another island-wide power outage on New Year's Eve.

New Fortress Energy Inc., a struggling company founded by billionaire Wes Edens, is withholding a liquefied natural gas ...

Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria -- nearly seven years after the powerful Category 4 storm caused extensive damage to the island's infrastructure.

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 ...

Puerto Rico swears in new governor days after blackout left much of the island in the dark Puerto Rican Gov. Jenniffer Gonzalez and her husband, Jose Yovin Vargas, wave ahead of her swearing-in ...

Early Tuesday morning, almost the entire island of Puerto Rico was hit with a blackout, leaving more than a million people without power. Officials are warning it could take days to restore.

America did get Puerto Rico, and the island has been an American territory ever since. For the next 50 years, Congress slowly expanded Puerto Rico’s rights.