Puerto Rico

Also on Wednesday Judge Swain said she would not send out the central government bankruptcy's disclosure statement until she was satisfied with it.

An outage that a LUMA Energy spokesperson said could have been triggered by sabotage left 900,000 customers without power on Thursday.

Jose Ramirez says he doesn't recognize the criminal mastermind portrayed in the SEC's complaint against him.

Through the first nine months of the fiscal year, Sales and Use Tax collections are up 30% from the year earlier.

In the bill the governor signed, lawmakers will not approve a plan of adjustment with cuts to pensions, which the current proposed plan includes.

Biden called on Congress to amend the Social Security Act to include Puerto Rican residents for benefits. The Oversight Board has said the benefits would lead to $1 billion more per year to island residents.

Bank of America, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley, RBC, and Santander are defendants.

A return to the local court remains possible.

If Congress does not act on the island’s Medicaid funding by the end of September, the funding shortfall would force officials to drop an estimated 800,000 people from the rolls.

Court gives Senate president short deadline to respond to legal inquiries and experts do not see a strong case.