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Puerto Ricans cheered Sonia Sotomayor's swearing-in Saturday as the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court, calling her rise to the nation's highest court a huge source of pride in the U.S. territory.
A House committee approved a proposal Wednesday that would let Puerto Ricans decide their island's political status. It was unclear whether the full Congress would consider the bill.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wrote as a Princeton undergraduate that she supported independence for Puerto Rico — a radical, fringe position, even today.
A group of six pro-independence Puerto Ricans was arrested Wednesday for demonstrating inside the House, a Capitol Police spokeswoman said.
Bill Clinton told Puerto Ricans on Sunday his wife will boost employment for island residents if elected president, as well as ensuring them the same access to affordable health care as people who live on the mainland.
Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's taped comment that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are feisty because of their mixed black and Latino "blood" set the blood of some Democrats boiling, but others say it's no big deal.
More Puerto Ricans live in U.S. states than in Puerto RicoA new analysis published by the Pew Hispanic Center today shows that there are now more Puerto Ricans in the U.S. mainland than on the island of Puerto Rico.
Must see pic: Attackers Pummel Man's Face While Yelling Racial SlursAttackers Pummel Man's Face While Yelling Racial Slurs Investigators in Kissimmee, Fla., are searching for two men who took turns pummeling a 22-year-old man while yelling racial slurs and then leaving him on the side of a road, according to a Local 6 News report.
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