GUIA projects PR auto sales to rise up to 3% in 2012; fleets are key driver

The United Group of Automotive Importers (GUIA by its Spanish acronym) is projec ...

Spain jobless ranks soar past 5 million

MADRID — The number of people out of work in Spain has soared past the 5 million ...

US economy grew modest 2.8% in Q4, best in 2011 despite government cuts

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the final thr ...
Gingrich: Status is up to PR voters
Issued: January 27, 2012
Newt Gingrich took up the Puerto Rico status issue on Friday as he and the ...

Ex-lawmaker charged with corruption
Issued: January 27, 2012
Former Rep. Iván Rodríguez Traverso was hit Friday with corruption charges ...

PR status issue raised in GOP debate
Issued: January 27, 2012
The Puerto Rico status issue came up during the Republican presidential pri ...

Expanded roles for top OFG execs
Issued: January 27, 2012
Oriental Financial Group Inc. announced Friday the appointments of Norberto ...

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 ...

‘Industrial heart’ of Roosy Roads in PR hands
Issued: January 26, 2012
The Puerto Rico government sealed a deal Thursday to take title on another 1,350 acres — including the port zone — at the former Naval Stati ...

Fortuño targets rival over 2006 trip
Issued: January 26, 2012
Gov. Luis Fortuño took aim Thursday at Popular Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Alejandro García Padilla over questions raised by an ...

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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 ...

Dems to Obama: Bring on 'Do-Nothing Congress' hit
Issued: January 26, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — House Democratic leaders say they welcome a campaign by President Barack Obama against a "do-nothing Congress" ev ...

Taco Bell enters crowded breakfast arena
Issued: January 26, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Yo quiero Taco Bell breakfast burrito! ...

Durable goods orders rise on business spending
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — A rebound in business spending on machinery and equipment lifted orders for long-lasting manufactured goods in December, offeri ...

Bernanke to deliver 4 college lectures on Fed
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will take a brief step back into his former life as a college professor.

Gingrich reveals income, but not how he earned it
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich beat his main GOP presidential rival, Mitt Romney, to the punch by releasing his most recent ...

More seek jobless aid, but trend is positive
Issued: January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to a seasonally adjusted 377,000, up from a nearly four-year ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Spanish unemployment rises to 24%
Issued: January 26, 2012
MADRID — Spain’s unemployment rate has jumped to nearly 24 percent in the fourth quarter, Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro said Thursday, ...

Gates injects $750M in troubled Global Fund
Issued: January 26, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland — Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose f ...

Jamaica launches emergency jobs initiative
Issued: January 25, 2012
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's month-old government has launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of ...

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