Fortuño endorsing Romney in Florida

Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño is throwing his political weight behind Mitt Romne ...

Obama administration to extend and expand foreclosure program

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that will expand its signature ...

Gingrich, Romney pressed on issue of PR statehood as they stump in Florida

Puerto Rican voters in Florida are making their presence felt ahead of the Repub ...
Ex-lawmaker charged with corruption
Issued: January 27, 2012
Former Rep. Iván Rodríguez Traverso was hit Friday with corruption charges ...

FDA clears long-delayed diabetes drug
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have approved Amylin Pharmaceutical’ ...

Trade group pushes PAN card use
Issued: January 27, 2012
The Puerto Rico Restaurant Association (ASORE) is pushing for an expansion ...

GUIA: PR auto sales to rise up to 3%
Issued: January 27, 2012
The United Group of Automotive Importers (GUIA by its Spanish acronym) is p ...

PR status issue raised in GOP debate
Issued: January 27, 2012
The Puerto Rico status issue came up during the Republican presidential primary debate Thursday night in Florida, where more than a million ...

Expanded roles for top OFG execs
Issued: January 27, 2012
Oriental Financial Group Inc. announced Friday the appointments of Norberto González and Ganesh Kumar to new and expanded senior executive p ...

González keeps heat on García Padilla
Issued: January 27, 2012
House Speaker Jenniffer González is calling for the Government Ethics Office and the Comptroller’s Office to investigate Popular Democratic ...

Pfizer sued in PR over retirement plans
Issued: January 27, 2012
Employees of Pfizer Inc. have filed suit against the company in Puerto Rico, alleging the world’s largest drug maker failed to properly mana ...

Bailout: Taxpayers still owed $133B
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Companies that were bailed out during the financial crisis still owe U.S. taxpayers nearly $133 billion. Treasury’s plans to re ...

Report: Fortuño to endorse Romney
Issued: January 26, 2012
Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño may endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Florida on Friday, the Miami Herald reports.

Justices rip chief over investigator
Issued: January 26, 2012
The six Puerto Rico Supreme Court justices appointed by the New Progressive Party came out strongly Thursday against Chief Justice Federico ...

Sotomayor links Guam, Puerto Rico
Issued: January 26, 2012
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor stepped off a plane in Guam this week — welcomed by palm trees instead of highways and ...

García Padilla eyes high-tech policing
Issued: January 26, 2012
Popular Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Alejandro García Padilla is working to hone his anti-crime platform this week during a trip ...

Pierluisi lauds Roosy Roads transfer
Issued: January 26, 2012
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi expressed confidence Thursday that the transfer of more than 1,350 acres at the former Naval Station R ...

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Dow slips to first losing week of 2012
Issued: January 27, 2012
NEW YORK — The stock market closed mostly lower Friday, capping its first losing week of 2012, after the government reported that economic g ...

Economy grew modest 2.8% in Q4, best in 201
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, the fastest growth in 2011.

California passes new auto emission rules
Issued: January 27, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Seeking to influence other states and Washington, California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday t ...

Obama urges Congress to act in election year
Issued: January 27, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats for an election-year fight, urging them to work with Republicans if they sho ...

North America boosts Ford in 4Q
Issued: January 27, 2012
DEARBORN, Mich. — For Ford, there’s no place like home.

FDA clears Pfizer drug for advanced kidney cancer
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Patients with hard-to-treat kidney cancer that has spread to other parts of the body gained a new drug option Friday, after fed ...

Justice unit to probe mortgage-backed securities
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Federal and state law enforcement officials have launched a fraud-fighting initiative to root out wrongdoing in the market for ...

Hispanics in focus as GOP race heats up in Florida
Issued: January 27, 2012
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — More than a million Hispanic voters are the prize as Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich resum ...

Obama decries rising cost of college education
Issued: January 27, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President Barack Obama says colleges and universities must be held accountable for the rising cost of higher education.

Obama courts Latino vote on economic tour
Issued: January 27, 2012
BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — President Barack Obama is courting Hispanics in politically important states, setting himself up as a champi ...

Debate over ‘ghetto language’ ad
Issued: January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a “ghetto language.” Close, but not quite.

Pentagon: Army, Marines to shrink as budget slows
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and M ...

Big Brother will be watching US intel world
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday it will take roughly five years to put in place new measures to stop another W ...

Activists send hundreds of tacos to Conn. mayor
Issued: January 26, 2012
EAST HAVEN, Conn. — The office of a Connecticut mayor who made a poorly received quip about his city's Latino community has been blasted ...

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Israel proposes West Bank barrier as border
Issued: January 27, 2012
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel is proposing to essentially turn its West Bank separation barrier into the border with a future state of Palest ...

Cuba: Tough prison terms for mahogany tree thefts
Issued: January 27, 2012
HAVANA — Cuba convicted six people of cutting down African mahogany trees in the National Botanical Gardens and sentenced them to eight and ...

Rescuers searching for survivors in Rio collapse
Issued: January 27, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO — Rescue workers feverishly dug through the wreckage of three destroyed buildings in downtown Rio on Friday, hunting for surv ...

Criticism mounts of RBS bonus for CEO
Issued: January 27, 2012
LONDON — U.K. politicians are fuming about a bonus of nearly a million pounds ($1.5 million) given to the chief executive of Royal Bank of S ...

Spain jobless ranks soar past 5 million
Issued: January 27, 2012
MADRID — The number of people out of work in Spain has soared past the 5 million mark with the jobless rate shooting up to almost one in fou ...

Dutch move step closer to banning burqa
Issued: January 27, 2012
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch Cabinet moved a step closer Friday to banning the burqa, making good on an election promise that is large ...

Finance chiefs reassure business leaders at Davos
Issued: January 27, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland — Leading finance chiefs sought to reassure anxious global business leaders on Friday that Europe is on track to solve it ...

Egyptians mark 1st anniversary of 'Friday of Rage'
Issued: January 27, 2012
CAIRO — Large marches of protesters chanting antimilitary slogans streamed from mosques around Cairo to join tens of thousands massed in cen ...

Castro lambasts US Republican primary as idiotic
Issued: January 26, 2012
HAVANA — Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of "idiocy and ignorance" the world h ...

US takes helm of troubled 'blood diamond' monitor
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — The United States is taking over the leadership of the international body charged with monitoring and preventing the sale of bl ...

Davos leaders look to China’s investments abroad
Issued: January 26, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland — Chinese investment abroad is drawing scrutiny as global leaders increasingly look to China to prop up the world economy ...

Putin: crackdown needed on illegal immigration
Issued: January 26, 2012
MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that government officials must crack down on migrant workers who break the nati ...

Haitian leader could pardon Duvalier
Issued: January 26, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland — Haiti's president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliati ...

UK panel mulls stripping banker of knighthood
Issued: January 26, 2012
LONDON — Sir Fred Goodwin built Royal Bank of Scotland into one of the world's largest banks, and walked away with a knighthood and a fa ...

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