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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Fiona in the Caribbean on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. (NOAA via AP)

Puerto Rico under hurricane warning as TS Fiona approaches

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

In this May 21, 2020 file photo, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced talks with her secretary of public affairs Osvaldo Soto during a press conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Official: Ex Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez arrested

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin signs autographs in Mexico City, April 5, 2011. A Puerto Rico court has “archived” a restraining order issued against the superstar, meaning the case is closed, a judicial spokesperson said Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Court closes restraining order case against Ricky Martin

By Adriana de Jesús Salamán - Associated Press

Ricky Martin poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Elvis' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Ricky Martin denies allegations that led to restraining order: ‘Completely false’

Associated Press

FILE - Jose Luis Gonzalez walks through a ravine known as "La Raja de Rosa," where people from Barrio Patron get their water supply in Morovis, Puerto Rico, Dec. 22, 2017, three months after Hurricane Maria hit. Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company was hit by a federal lawsuit on June 2, 2022, demanding that it provide services to residents who lack potable water on a daily basis. The lawsuit was filed by the mayor of Morovis who said daily interruptions in water service have been a problem that grew worse after Hurricane Maria razed the electric grid. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

Puerto Ricans speak out on U.S. territory’s political status

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - The Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico's Capitol as in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 29, 2015. A group of Democratic congress members, including the House majority leader, on Thursday, May 19, 2022, proposed a binding plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a state or gain some sort of independence. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

U.S. lawmakers urge binding vote on Puerto Rico status

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg listens during a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee meeting at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Jan. 7, 2009. Holmberg, a North Dakota state senator who is resigning following a report about text messages he exchanged with an inmate ran up travel expenses the past decade that are more than 14 times what lawmakers bill state taxpayers on average, according to a review by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)

Resigning North Dakota senator led lawmakers in travel costs

By James MacPherson - Associated Press

In this photo obtained from U.S. federal court records, Jeffri Dávila-Reyes, third from left, and two others hold their hands in the air as they are intercepted in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 29, 2015. Dávila-Reyes says he’s still mystified how he ended up serving hard time in a U.S. federal prison. His cocaine bust at sea was closer to his homeland of Costa Rica than the United States, and the few kilos of drugs he was carrying were bound for Jamaica rather than American shores. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Ruling threatens U.S. power as world’s high-seas drug police

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

An American flag blows in the wind in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Supreme Court upholds Puerto Ricans’ exclusion from benefits program

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Traffic lights are out of service on a street in San Juan, Puerto Rico, early Thursday, April 7, 2022. More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Major outage forces Puerto Rico to shutter schools, offices

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Kellie Delka and William C. Flaherty, of Puerto Rico, lead their team in during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Olympic skier overcomes illness to compete for Puerto Rico

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press

A Puerto Rican flag flies on an empty beach at Ocean Park, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Puerto Rico’s nearly five-year bankruptcy battle was resolved Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, after a federal judge signed a plan that slashes the U.S. territory’s public debt load as part of a restructuring and allows the government to start repaying creditors. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

Judge signs plan, resolves Puerto Rico bankruptcy battle

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

A wooden Puerto Rican flag is displayed on the dock of the Condado lagoon, where multiple selective blackouts have been recorded in the past days, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. Federal agents arrested the mayor of one of the wealthiest cities in Puerto Rico on corruption charges Thursday, the second such case announced this month. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico mayor, official charged in U.S. corruption case

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, photo, residents receive aid supplies after suffering the previous day's magnitude 6.4 quake in Yauco, Puerto Rico. A key U.N. aid agency says needs for humanitarian assistance have ballooned this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people — who together would make up the world's fifth-most populous country — are likely to require such help next year for troubles like the pandemic as well as war, forced migration and the impact of global warming. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) **FILE**

18 state AGs urge Supreme Court to include U.S. territories in aid programs

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a Tropical Storm Fred in the Caribbean as it passes south of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic at 8am EST, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES via AP)

Tropical Storm Fred nearing the Dominican Republic

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference outside the United States Postal Service Jamaica station, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

AOC ‘abuela’ story blaming Trump for hurricane woes shot down by aunt: ‘We had the assistance’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Independence, not statehood

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Puerto Rican Statehood Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Census results show why statehood for Puerto Rico is urgently needed

By Jose Fuentes

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. talks to an aide during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on the Capitol breach on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

AOC fires back at criticism over grandmother’s ‘squalid’ living conditions

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Flowers, balloons and a poster with the Spanish word for &quot;justice&quot; is part of a growing makeshift memorial for Keishla Rodriguez whose lifeless body was found in a lagoon Saturday, at the entrance of where she lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 6, 2021. A federal judge on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo held without bail after he was charged with the death of Keishla Rodriguez and with intentionally killing the unborn child she was carrying. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Grand jury indicts Puerto Rico boxer in lover’s death

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press