The benefits are available to U.S. citizens living in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana Islands but not for those who live in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...

With over 18% of the island population over age 65, Puerto Rico has a large retirement community, and as a U.S. territory, no residency permit is required to live in or retire in Puerto Rico.

Mangroves are frontline defenders against hurricanes, and also mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis by storing up to 10 ...

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, once seen as a safe haven for illegal migrants, has seen ICE raids at an increasing pace since President Donald Trump took office.

Most of Puerto Rico remains without power and running water just five years after Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people on the island. "Anything we can do to be able to support can make a ...

This is why I believe that independence, not statehood, is the path we must pursue. Oscar Every year, no matter where I’m living, I visit family in Puerto Rico.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Puerto Rico and an immigration attorney are demanding that the federal government release and return a 47-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic.

Smith said that she has called the adult care home in Puerto Rico several times but has been unable to hold a conversation with her sister because she has dementia. “We didn’t expect it.

Between December 2020 and December 2021, the cost of living in Puerto Rico rose by a record-breaking 7% — the largest percent increase since December 1981.