Last week, Puerto Ricans on the U.S. territory headed to the polls and voted in favor of becoming a state. While Puerto ...

From Guam to Puerto Rico, America encompasses more than just the 50 states. But can residents in the territories vote for ...

Residents of Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, but they can't vote in presidential general elections. That’s because territories ...

There's been a yearslong debate over the status of Puerto Rico, which became a U.S. territory in 1898 after Spain ceded it to the U.S. following the Spanish-American War. Congress has been ...

The island of Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not unlike Guam, or Hawaii before it became a state in 1959. I believe it would be notably unwise to deny its long-standing cultural influence on ...

Before the election, the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico was thrust into national headlines, but for all the wrong reasons.

On Tuesday, citizens of Puerto Rico had three options to pave the way for their future. Similar to 2012, 2017, and 2020, ...

Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins ...

Yet, the power to change Puerto Rico’s status — and to embrace the foundations of U.S. democracy — ultimately rests with ... major pieces of legislation often take years to pass. Other territories ...

For the first time in the island's governor's race, a third-party candidate has a powerful second lead in the polls ahead of the U.S ... Dalmau is running for Puerto Rico’s Independence Party ...

U.S. Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s former nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress and an ally of Donald Trump, ...

Here's a guide to the others. The U.S. territories include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. While the territories participate in ...