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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America’s largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world’s pandemic hot spots.

Puerto Rico doesn’t know the definition of a slow news day, much less a slow news week. 

In Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood known as “La Villita” community members were outraged and wanted answers after a large and slow-moving plume covered their homes, backyards, and vehicles in toxic particulate matter.

Hospitals —which is where most people on the island die— have not been testing all suspected patients and none of the deceased.

With this latest release, the singer-performer-songwriter also known as La Montra, is announcing her comeback, with a fusion of rap lyrics over metal rock sounds and urbano flow.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases doubled in one day after delayed test results were taken into account. 

NEW YORK (AP) — Ulises García went from being a waiter to working at a laundromat. Yelitza Esteva used to do manicures and now delivers groceries. Maribel Torres swapped cleaning homes for sewing masks.

The nation’s first 2020 poll of solely Latinos living in America found they overwhelmingly feel the president ignored the early signs of the coronavirus, which led to its worsening spread across the country.

The response to the coronavirus has shaken the conceit of “American exceptionalism.” Governors across the country are trying to balance restarting the economy with safety.

To drivers on the George Washington Bridge, Martín Morales probably looked like just another weekend warrior in his windbreaker and bicycle helmet, out for a ride in the suburbs across the river from New York City.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Activists said Thursday that the two bodies found inside a charred car in southeast Puerto Rico were of transgender women, marking four such deaths in the past two months.

To his supporters, Sanders is not just a candidate—he is the conviction of core beliefs of many young and old progressives who have longed for someone to vindicate their struggles.

Around 620 indigenous people live in this UNESCO-recognized biome, spread out in six different villages in a five-acre territory. They continue to struggle to maintain their language, traditions and rituals.

The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package.

We’re living, teaching, and learning in a situation many of us never seriously imagined.

The mandate comes as Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives investigates members of Vázquez’s COVID-19 taskforce for a since-canceled contract worth $38 million for rapid testing kits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s tenure as Barack Obama’s vice president is complicating his efforts to deepen ties with Latinos who could be critical to winning the White House.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had signed an executive order “temporarily suspending immigration into the United States.” But experts say the order will merely delay the issuance of green cards for a minority of applicants.

Organizers hope to raise at least $1 million in direct financial assistance.

Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez is handling the coronavirus crisis in the most Trumpian of ways—don’t pay attention to science and worry about your political survival instead. Despite an aggressive plan to install an island-wide lockdown that continues to this day and shows no sign of ending, Vázquez has become the latest in the line […]

Los municipios de Guánica, Peñuelas, Sabana Grande, Guayanilla y Yauco prácticamente quedaron sin escuelas debido a los cierres y los terremotos.