On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Spain lost the war and ceded Puerto Rico to the United States, along with other territories, including Guam and the Philippines. A raft of legislation and court rulings in the early twentieth ...

Puerto Rico has been under U.S. control since the 1898 Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, but they cannot vote in general elections and have no voting ...

And while he was president, he was the one who actually went to war in some ways with Puerto Rico after two hurricanes. He was so mad at the mayor of San Juan for not showing proper deference that ...

following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American War. In a non-binding plebiscite in November, nearly 70 percent of participating voters in Puerto Rico chose ...

The governor of Puerto Rico pleaded ... conflict since World War I." "Contrary to Maduro's and other adversaries' calls for independence, the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly rejected this ...

The Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny’s latest album has been charting on the Billboard Hot 100. HPR’s Cassie Ordonio reports one song referencing Hawaiʻi has drawn reaction from Native Hawaiians and ...

including the hundreds of thousands of service members from the Island who have fought alongside our fellow citizens in every U.S. military conflict since World War I." Read On The Fox News App ...

Erica Marie Erickson, a former attorney and prominent animal rights advocate, has filed a landmark civil rights lawsuit ...