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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The head of Puerto Rico’s key economic development agency announced his resignation on Tuesday as he criticized the U.S. territory’s administration of Jenniffer González, accusing it of interfering in the department’s work. The departure of Sebastián Negrón Reichard from the powerful Department of Economic Development and Commerce comes at a critical moment for Puerto Rico as it seeks to revive its economy and attract wealthy investors. Negrón Reichard noted in his statement that more than 10 officials with leadership roles at the agency – including its chief of staff, general counsel and the finance chief…

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs is facing five criminal charges, including strangulation and suffocation, after police responded to a disturbance complaint involving him over the weekend. Hobart/Lawrence (Wisconsin) Police Chief Michael Renkas said that Jacobs was arrested Tuesday and booked into Brown County Jail on charges of strangulation and suffocation, battery-domestic abuse, criminal damage to property-domestic abuse, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse and intimidation of a victim. Renkas said police had been dispatched to a complaint involving Jacobs on Saturday at 8:37 a.m. “This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” Renkas said in a statement. “No further information will be…

Police have arrested a man who was rescued from a smoking chimney at a boarded-up house in Washington state. The house in Everett, Washington, northeast of Seattle, had “no trespassing” signs on the property. Neighbors reported smoke coming from the chimney of the house at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time Monday, the Everett Police Department said. Police said upon their arrival, officers heard the accused trespasser and saw the smoke. The man, whom police did not publicly name, refused to come out, and officers tried going in the front door. Simultaneously, the police said, the man climbed out of a…

A man died and a woman ended up hospitalized with a hip injury after the two collided while skydiving over Washington state. On Saturday afternoon, a group of 11 took part in a jump organized by Skydive West Plains, based in Ritzville, Washington, 200 miles southeast of Seattle. As they fell, jumpers Randy Hubbs and Nicole Klein collided, which knocked Mr. Hubbs out and left him “no longer in control of his parachute canopy,” the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. Skydive West Plains staff, watching the scene from a vantage point about 500 feet above ground level, saw…

Chicago police reported only one shooting death over the weekend, making it one of the least deadly Memorial Day weekends there since 2010. Authorities said the lone death involved 2-year-old Jamonte Shaw, who got hold of a gun and fatally shot himself on Sunday. Officers took a 31-year-old man in connection to the boy’s death but did not divulge possible charges for the suspect. Police said 26 people were shot throughout the city over the weekend — slightly up from the 25 people wounded in shootings last Memorial Day — but four people were killed during 2025’s holiday. City data…

At least 26 people were shot across Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, police said Tuesday, but the city recorded no confirmed homicides during the holiday period — the first time that has happened in at least a decade. The Chicago Police Department reported 23 shooting incidents from Friday at 6 p.m. through Monday at 11:59 p.m., according to ABC7 Chicago, which tracked the weekend’s violence through the official CPD reporting window. Among the most serious incidents, five Chicago police officers were injured after an 18-year-old driver allegedly plowed into a crowd near Loomis and Roosevelt before crashing. The suspect was…

The risk of a catastrophic explosion at a damaged chemical tank in Southern California has been eliminated following a close overnight inspection that confirmed a crack in the tank relieved pressure and cooled the chemical, authorities said Monday. The results of the evaluation was “incredibly positive news,” and allowed officials to turn the corner after days of concern about a possible explosion, said Orange County Fire Authority division chief Craig Covey. However, evacuation orders remained in place for about 50,000 people in Garden Grove, California, located south of Los Angeles. There has been no chemical leak as of early Monday,…

Voters in Texas head to the polls Tuesday to bring an end to one of the costliest and nastiest Senate Republican primaries in the Lone Star State’s history. The runoff concludes days after President Trump tipped the race with his endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a MAGA warrior with a solid conservative track record. A poll taken in the days immediately after Mr. Trump’s May 19 nod to Mr. Paxton suggests voters are ready to send four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn packing. Mr. Paxton hit Mr. Cornyn with campaign attack ads replaying the Senate Republican’s own words from…

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence for it, a Dominican judge ruled Monday. Judge José Antonio Núñez, in his decision, considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion and blackmail by the minor’s mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually trafficking her daughter. Franco was arrested in January 2024 after being accused of having a four-month relationship with a girl who was 14 at the time and transferring thousands of…

A federal appellate court judge delivered an epic burn to the Department of Justice during oral arguments this month in a case where the government was attempting to defend ICE’s aggressive posture in making arrests at churches. “It’s very hard to win a case without evidence or legal argument,” Judge Steven Agee, a George W. Bush appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told the Justice Department lawyer. That came just after a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a department lawyer to face an ethics review for withholding key information from her during a migrant detention case. U.S.…