Gov’t Urged to Prevent Potential Displacement of Families Amid Ping-Ponging HUD Rule Changes
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Six US Navy Warfare Aircraft Deployed to Roosevelt Roads
Governor Decrees 2 Days of Mourning for ‘El Maestro’ of Salsa Rafael Ithier
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Six US Navy warfare aircraft deployed to Roosevelt Roads
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Acontingent of six U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft has been forward-deployed to the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, sources told The War Zone publication.
The deployment represents roughly a full squadron of the specialized jets, which are designed to suppress enemy air defenses and conduct advanced electronic warfare missions.
The move marks a significant escalation in the ongoing U.S. military buildup across the Caribbean and surrounding region. While the Pentagon has previously emphasized counter-narcotics operations as a key mission set for forces stationed at the former base on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast, the arrival of Growlers suggests a posture that goes well beyond a routine show of force. The Boeing EA-18G’s capabilities -- ranging from radar jamming to electronic attack -- are typically associated with high-end conflict scenarios rather than drug interdiction.
Roosevelt Roads, once a major U.S. Navy hub before its closure in 2004, has seen renewed activity in recent years as Washington seeks to bolster its presence in the Western Hemisphere. The deployment of the aircraft could signal preparations for more complex operations
The Boeing EA-18G’s capabilities -- ranging from radar jamming to electronic attack -- are typically associated with high-end conflict scenarios rather than drug interdiction. (Wikipedia/U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Torrey W. Lee)
or contingency planning amid growing geopolitical tensions in the region.
The information comes as the United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro (see related story on page 16), who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.
Governor decrees 2 days of mourning for ‘El Maestro’ of salsa Rafael Ithier
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has decreed Sunday, Dec. 14 and Monday, Dec. 15 as days of mourning for the death of Rafael Ithier Natal, founder of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.
The order, which the governor announced Wednesday evening, stipulates that flags at all public facilities must fly at half-mast for both days, including Monday, when the funeral services announced by the family of Ithier Natal will be held, according to the information provided.
The governor had previously indicated that she would wait for the official announcement of the funeral services before issuing the declaration of mourning, due to the national recognition that the musician’s career represents, as he was recently inducted into the Puerto Rican Veterans Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2025.
The governor once again expressed her condolences on behalf of the people of Puerto Rico to the family and loved ones of the esteemed salsero.
Ithier Natal, who founded the famed orchestra in 1962 and is recognized as a key figure in the growth of salsa music internationally, passed away last Saturday at the age of 99 at his residence, surrounded by his relatives, according to reports.
Rafael Ithier Natal (1926-2025), founder of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (Instagram via djtonytouch)
Treasury secretary seeks unpaid taxes from accused in scheme
By THE STAR STAFF
Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez announced Thursday the start of an administrative process to recover unpaid taxes from individuals and corporations accused in a fraud scheme exceeding $9 million.
The case, revealed on Oct. 29 of this year, followed a joint investigation by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department.
“As part of the actions we are taking in response to this case, the Internal Revenue Division has begun assessing and collecting taxes these individuals evaded,” Pantoja Rodríguez
said. “These tax debts amount to approximately $9,360,242 and include various types, such as income tax, employer withholdings, and sales and use tax. We have also identified other violations, including unreported income and failure to file returns.”
The recovery process involves notifying those implicated and assessing liabilities to determine the tax responsibility of the accused individuals and corporations. To secure payment, the department initiated a “jeopardy assessment” procedure aimed at preventing taxpayers from disposing of assets. Pantoja Rodríguez emphasized that taxpayers’ rights under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and due
process will be upheld.
Under Sections 6010.02 and 6010.03 of Puerto Rico’s Internal Revenue Code of 2011, as amended, those notified may request reconsideration and an administrative hearing before the Treasury’s Appeals Office and suspend collection efforts by posting a bond.
The secretary also noted that on Nov. 14, the department issued notices to suspend alcoholic beverage licenses for establishments implicated in Criminal Indictment No. 25-434. That indictment includes 138 charges against 26 individuals and corporations for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery, and defrauding the island treasury of more than $3.5 million.
Hundreds of seniors gather for holiday fellowship in Fajardo
By THE STAR STAFF
Hundreds of senior citizens packed the Multi-Purpose Center in Fajardo earlier this week to participate in “Golden Christmas,” a unique event of music, games and art designed to provide them with a space for joy and fellowship during the Christmas season.
“We wanted to do something different to impact all sectors of our legislative district, so we developed this event [...] that gives us the opportunity to share with hundreds of senior citizens in an atmosphere of joy and Christmas celebration,” said Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, the driving force behind the initiative. “Activities like this foster the interaction and fellowship that these people
need at this time.”
The District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Vieques and Culebra) lawmaker noted that “Puerto Rico’s demographic reality shows
an increase in the number of senior citizens, which, according to data from the United States Census (circa 2022), exceeds 800,000.”
“Given this reality, identifying alterna-
Center in Fajardo, some 250 senior men and women participated in many activities, including traditional bingo and dominoes, as well as dancing and craftwork.
tives to provide them with recreation and joy is imperative, hence the importance of this activity,” the House speaker said.
For more than four hours on Wednesday, some 250 senior men and women participated in many activities, including traditional bingo and dominoes, as well as dancing and craftwork. The band from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation entertained those present, and prizes such as toasters were distributed to participants in the different activities.
In addition, gift cards for groceries at Econo supermarkets were given to all the seniors in attendance. Fajardo Mayor José Anibal “Joey” Menéndez, and Ombudsman for the Elderly Dr. Yolanda Varela spent time with the seniors during the gathering.
Gov’t urged to address potential displacement of families amid HUD rule changes
By THE STAR STAFF
Solo por Hoy Executive Director Belinda Hill urged the government on Thursday to work with non-profit organizations to prevent the displacement of 900 homeless families already located in permanent housing who next year could lose their homes if new federal policies are implemented requiring them to be treated for substance abuse.
One of the options, Hill said, is for the government to create new treatment centers.
“It’s up to the Mental Health and Anti-Ad-
diction Services Administration (ASSMCA) to urgently create, in the short and medium term, centers for substance abuse treatment so that our people can be reintegrated into society and do not lose their housing,” she said. “Now there is no such thing, but they can be created if we want the best for our people and thus fulfilling President Donald Trump’s new housing policy that they receive treatment.”
“I see it as an opportunity to improve the quality of life of people with substance abuse problems who otherwise could lose their homes,” Hill added.
The Solo por Hoy director and president of the Continuum of Care (CoC) PR-502 estimated that although the new housing policy was temporarily halted this week by a court order, it is still unclear if it could yet be implemented next year. She estimated that there are more than 900 families in northern Puerto Rico that could lose their homes when they run out of federal vouchers for housing assigned to them by CoC PR 502, under the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) new rules.
HUD reversed its policy change this
week just before a court hearing on two lawsuits challenging the new rules. There is, however, the possibility of a new HUD notice being issued in the next few weeks, if there is a judicial agreement.
“We have housing projects that renew in January and it is not yet known if they will renew or not,” Hill said. “Homelessness organizations are on standby as to what will happen with this situation and it would be important to initiate dialogues with the government agencies to analyze possible scenarios as well as solutions.”
Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez
For more than four hours at the Multi-Purpose
Some 236 firms are exempted from Christmas bonus payment
By THE STAR STAFF
The Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its initials in Spanish) announced Thursday that 236 companies out of a total of 272 that requested an exemption from paying the 2025 Christmas bonus qualified under Law 148 of 1969, known as the “Christmas Bonus Law for Private Sector Workers and Employees.”
Another five petitioners were granted a partial exemption, meaning they must distribute 15% of their net profits proportionally among their employees. Meanwhile, 31 employers were denied the exemption for failing to meet various requirements. The petitioning companies belong to the trade, construction, manufacturing and service industries.
When comparing the total number of requests received in 2024, Labor Secretary María del Pilar Vélez Casanova noted that this year saw a decrease in the number of employers seeking exemption from the bonus, equivalent to 25 fewer requests. However, the total number of denials issued by the agency increased this year, with 17 more rejections than in 2024.
Meanwhile, fully approved exemptions also decreased, with 39 fewer cases certified. For partial exemptions, there were three fewer cases than the previous year.
Vélez Casanova said the decline in the number of employers requesting exemption from the legally mandated bonus reflects a positive trend in employers’ ability to comply with the benefit, which is expected by all employees and supported by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s public policy.
“This trend reflects not only a more stable and responsible employer sector but also greater awareness of compliance with labor obligations,” the DTRH secretary said. “The
stability of the private sector helps boost the economy, strengthens employer-employee relations, and improves the quality of life for our workforce.”
Instead of including the actual number of employees affected by the approved exemptions, many companies submitted their entire workforce in their applications this year, bringing the total reported workforce to 33,628 across all petitioning employers. Although the agency will take steps to gather
more accurate data, it estimates that the real number of impacted employees is considerably lower. Meanwhile, about 104 employees will receive a partial bonus, and 1,005 employees will receive the full bonus under the law, as their employers’ requests were denied. The agency is evaluating the process it will follow to require companies to provide precise data on the actual number of employees expected to be affected by the requested exemption.
Vélez Casanova noted that this year, the initial audit of submitted cases was carried out by a specialized task force of five agency accountants. The team was created to support the Bureau of Labor Standards, the division responsible for evaluating and analyzing the requests.
The Department of Labor officially publishes the report of approved exemption requests. For employees whose employer is not listed in that document and who meet the required work hours, the law states that the bonus must be paid. For this reason, the DTRH recommends reviewing the report carefully on its portal at trabajo.pr.gov.
If an employee does not receive the bonus by next Monday, Dec. 15, and his or her employer does not appear on the exemption list, he or she should contact the Bureau of Labor Standards at 787-754-5353, extensions 12400, 12404, 12407, 12408, or 12411.
Law firm representing PR in bankruptcy cases seeks 3% hike in hourly rates
By THE STAR STAFF
Proskauer Rose LLP, the law firm at the center of Puerto Rico’s historic bankruptcy restructuring, has asked the federal court overseeing the case to approve a 3% increase in its hourly billing rates starting Jan. 1, 2026. If the court approves the hike, some 60 Proskauer lawyers will be making $1,038 per hour and some 10 paraprofessionals about $355 per hour.
The request was disclosed in a filing Thursday under the court’s Additional Presumptive Standards Order, which governs rate adjustments and the retention of expert witnesses in the Title III proceedings. The increase applies to individual timekeepers and is detailed in an exhibit attached to the notice.
New York City-based Proskauer is the leading law firm representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, the federally appointed entity charged with steering the island through its multi-billiondollar debt restructuring under Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA. The case, which began in 2017, is the largest public-sector bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Legal fees have been a point of contention throughout the process, with critics arguing that professional costs have ballooned while the island continues to face economic challenges.
Proskauer’s filing emphasizes that the adjustment is consistent with its engagement letter and industry norms for annual rate increases. The firm also submitted a certification, as required by the court, affirming compliance with the presumptive standards.
Proskauer is among several major law firms involved in Puerto Rico’s restructuring, alongside firms such as O’Melveny & Myers and Paul Hastings. According to previous fee applications, top partners at the firms have billed rates exceeding $1,000 per hour, drawing scrutiny from watchdog groups and local stakeholders.
The 3% increase, while modest compared to some past adjustments, underscores the ongoing cost of managing Puerto Rico’s complex financial recovery. Since 2017, professional fees in the Title III cases have surpassed $1.8 billion, according to court filings.
The court will review Proskauer’s notice and certification, but under the Additional Presumptive Standards Order, such annual adjustments are generally permitted
if they meet the established criteria. The new rates would take effect on Jan. 1. So far, the only active bankruptcy case is that of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which has been unable to reach an agreement over its $9 billion debt.
If the federal Title III court approves the requested increase in hourly billing rates, some 60 Proskauer Rose lawyers will be making $1,038 per hour and some 10 paraprofessionals about $355 per hour. (LinkedIn)
Labor and Human Resources Secretary María del Pilar Vélez Casanova
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House gives bipartisan approval to $900 billion defense bill
By MEGAN MINEIRO
The House earlier this week approved a $900 billion defense policy bill that would codify much of President Donald Trump’s national security agenda but seek to curb his move to withdraw from Europe and to mandate more Pentagon consultation with Congress.
The 312-112 vote on the legislation, which would provide a 3.8% pay raise to U.S. troops, reflected bipartisan support for what is commonly regarded as a must-pass bill. It goes next to the Senate, which is also expected to approve it overwhelmingly, sending it to Trump for his signature.
The measure includes an array of provisions that place Trump’s stamp on the U.S. military, including one that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the Defense Department. But to bring it up, House Republicans had to overcome resistance in their own ranks from hard-right members, some of whom said the measure, which seeks to block U.S. troops from withdrawing from Europe and would send new aid to Ukraine, abandoned the president’s “America first” promises.
The legislation also reflected growing frustration among members of both parties with the
Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy speaks to representatives of the U.S. Army during the third day of the National Transportation Safety Board’s hearings on the Jan. 29 midair collision over the Potomac, at the NTSB boardroom in Washington, Aug. 1, 2025. The NTSB chair warned that a provision in the new defense bill would worsen the risk of midair collisions near the Washington-area airport where a deadly crash in January killed 67 people. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
way Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has run the Pentagon, especially when it comes to the administration’s boat strikes in international waters, which have killed at least 87 people since September.
It would mandate that the Defense Department send Congress unedited videos that officials have so far been unwilling to show lawmakers of the maritime attacks, which Trump has said are being undertaken to target narco-terrorists trafficking drugs into the United States. And it would withhold 25% of Hegseth’s travel budget if he failed to give the congressional national security committees the video footage and the command orders behind the strikes.
The price tag for the bill came in $8 billion above what the Trump administration had requested, reflecting continued support in Congress for pouring huge sums into the military.
Leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees said the bill would modernize and streamline the way the military buys weapons and supplies. White House officials argued in a statement that it would “strengthen the defense industrial base while eliminating funding for wasteful and radical programs.”
But the legislation also challenged parts of Trump’s agenda.
The bill would block the Pentagon from reducing the number of troops “permanently stationed in or deployed” to Europe below 76,000 for longer than 45 days, unless Hegseth and the top officer overseeing U.S. European Command certify to Congress that such
a drawdown aligns with U.S. national security interests and that NATO allies were consulted.
And though Trump has pressed to end U.S. military support to Ukraine, the measure would authorize $400 million in annual security assistance for Kyiv for another two years. A handful of House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, cited that provision in explaining their opposition to the bill.
“I would love to fund our military but refuse to support foreign aid and foreign militaries and foreign wars,” Greene wrote on social media.
Limiting the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe is at odds with recent moves by the Pentagon, which recently said it would cut U.S. troops in Germany, Romania and Poland, taking lawmakers by surprise. The provision also challenges the approach laid out in a new White House national security strategy that threatens to back European political parties “cultivating resistance” over long-standing U.S. allies in NATO countries.
Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said in a speech on the House floor that voting for the bill was an act of reasserting Congress’ authority as a coequal branch of government, “which is but one step along a very long road.” The legislation, he added, was an effort “to try to get some restraint on the lack of transparency, the unaccountability and the problems that are coming out of this White House and this Department of Defense.”
Democrats had pushed to include a change to the Defense Department’s health care plan to cover in vitro fertilization for troops and their family members. But for the second year in a row, Speaker Mike Johnson intervened during final negotiations to kill that provision. His opposition sprang from concerns that IVF would lead to the destruction of embryos, a central critique of the treatment by conservatives.
The bill would also repeal Iraq and Persian Gulf War-era authorizations for the use of military force that presidents of both parties have used to justify military operations overseas without the consent of Congress, something Democrats and Republicans have long called for.
And it would roll back sweeping sanctions imposed on Syria’s construction, energy and financial sectors when former President Bashar Assad was in power. In the aftermath of the Assad regime and more than a decade of civil war in Syria, lawmakers in both parties have pressed to repeal the penalties to spur economic development there.
The House originally passed a bill loaded with conservative social policy mandates, including a ban on the Pentagon covering gender-affirming surgeries for troops. But that provision and several others were stripped out in final negotiations. The legislation still includes a ban on transgender women participating in women’s athletic programs at U.S. military academies.
Senate deadlocks on health care, leaving subsidies to expire
By CARL HULSE
The Senate on Thursday deadlocked on competing proposals to avert rising health care premiums, blocking Democratic and Republican alternatives in an outcome that made it all but certain that expanded tax subsidies for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act will expire at the end of the month.
Republicans squelched a bid by Democrats, who had demanded action on the issue during the 43-day government shutdown, to extend the insurance subsidies for three years.
Democrats turned back a Republican alternative that would replace the subsidies with an expansion of tax-advantaged health savings accounts and direct payments of up to $1,500 to people who buy the most basic health insurance plans.
Neither proposal could muster the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster and move ahead, a long-expected result that teed up a brutal battle over health care that is likely to shape the fight for control of Congress next year.
Both plans were thwarted on separate votes of 51-48. Four Republicans — Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both of Alaska — joined Democrats in support of taking up the extension, while all Democrats and a single Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, opposed the GOP alternative.
With Congress set to leave for the holidays after next week and the two sides still far apart on their approach to rising health insurance costs, time was nearly out to renew the premium subsidies that millions of Americans depend on to afford coverage on the federal health care exchange. Democrats have promised to spotlight the issue in midterm election campaigns, seeing
program is susceptible to fraud that has contributed to insurance company profits.
“The Democrat proposal, which is a threeyear extension of the status quo, is an attempt to disguise the real impact of Obamacare’s spiraling health care costs,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader. “If we extend this three years at a cost of $83 billion to the taxpayers, what happens after three years?”
Democrats said the Republican proposal amounted to an inadequate “coupon” for health care, noting that it would go only to those who purchased high-deductible insurance plans that require people to pay thousands of dollars for medical care before receiving coverage. They argued it would do nothing to head off the immediate threat of rising premiums, harming Americans who could lose coverage and be unable to afford needed care.
“The whole conversation about these Affordable Care Act tax credits in this town, in this building, has been focused on the politics of this issue,” said Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. “This is life or death. People will die.”
Democratic proposal. But party leaders faced pressure to put a plan forward so Republicans could say they had tried something to address the expiring tax subsidies.
House Republicans have said they will next week begin considering some piecemeal measures that represent their approach to addressing rising health care costs, but an extension of the subsidies is so far not part of the mix. As a result, a group of House Republicans worried about the political backlash from allowing the breaks to expire started a petition Wednesday to try to force a floor vote on a plan to extend the subsidies on a narrowed basis for two years.
A second bipartisan petition would force action on a bill to renew a scaled-back set of subsidies for one year. If Democrats were to unite behind either petition, it could clear the threshold necessary to require a vote on the House floor. But most Democrats have so far refrained from signing either as they continue to hold out for their preferred three-year extension.
(Eric Lee/The New York Times)
an opening to pound Republicans for failing to head off sharp premium increases and threatening health care access at a time when many Americans are toiling to afford basic necessities.
“Now the next chapter begins,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the minority leader, said after the vote. “Republicans will have to answer to the American people.”
Republicans said Democrats’ bid to preserve the subsidies would simply maintain a “bloated” federal program that was meant to be temporary and is experiencing unsustainable costs. They said a new Government Accountability Office investigation also found that the
Republicans said the root cause of the escalation in health insurance premiums was the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance program established by Democrats during the Obama administration.
“Democrats know that Obamacare has failed,” said Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, one of the authors of the Republican plan. “Their only offer is more spending.”
Republicans had committed to allowing Democrats a vote on their proposal to extend the health care subsidies as a condition of a deal to end the government shutdown.
The GOP, which has struggled for years to coalesce around a health care plan, had considered not offering an alternative to the
The White House has taken a largely hands-off approach to the congressional health care fight after President Donald Trump initially suggested he would back a limited extension of the subsidies but was quickly urged by Republicans on Capitol Hill to drop that push.
“The president is prepared to take action on health care, and he wants Republicans on the Hill to do the same,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday when asked what Trump would do to address soaring costs now that the subsidies are on track to expire. She added that people would hear more about his plan to do so “very soon.”
Members of both parties said they still wanted to try to reach some solution even though bipartisan negotiations have come up
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 9, 2025. The Senate was on track Thursday to block two competing proposals to avert rising health care premiums, with back-to-back floor votes that were expected to highlight a partisan deadlock on the issue.
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The resilience of religious doubt
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Charles Murray’s new book, “Taking Religion Seriously,” in which he elaborates his reasons for trading atheism for a heterodox form of Christian faith, is a bit of a curious reading experience for me. This year I published a book arguing that it should be possible to reason one’s way from skepticism to belief and trying to unspool some threads of argument that the doubter might follow across the threshold of religious faith.
What I proposed, Murray’s book explicitly embodies. It’s an intellectual memoir in which the author, over many years of reading and arguing, thinks his way into religion, and it follows many of the same signposts that I recommended as guides for the traveler — from scientific discoveries to supernatural evidence to New Testament interpretations.
While promoting my book, I was asked more than a few times whether I really thought someone starting from outside religious faith could make this kind of journey intellectually, whether argument alone could really convince anyone of religious claims. Now I can hand them Murray’s book and say triumphantly “yes” — with, of course, the proviso that Murray, a famous conservative policy thinker with a Quaker wife whose professional life brought him in contact with an unusual number of religious intellectuals, is maybe a slightly idiosyncratic case study.
But rather than just discuss the convergences between our arguments, I thought it might be more fruitful to talk about how reading Murray’s book and agreeing with so much of it also made me ponder the inevitable resilience of skepticism.
Christmas is a good time for that contemplation, insofar as Christmas itself is an argument for religious belief. Here is this profound and magical-seeming event, the obscure birth of an infant in the provinces of a powerful and cruel empire that radically redirects 2,000 years (and counting) of human history, that introduces a story and a value system into the world that’s so powerful that even nonbelievers can’t shake its influence, that once a year makes almost everyone stop and listen for angelic choirs, hearkening to the numinous, seeking to encounter once more what W.H. Auden called “the actual Vision” …
And yet it’s also an event that, according to Christianity’s believers, happened only once, and when it happened, by God’s apparent design, only a very few were chosen to see the fullness of the miracle — Mary and Joseph, a scattering of shepherds, a few perspicacious Zoroastrian priest-astrologers. And that’s if you accept the historicity of the infancy narratives, which even some believers (including Murray, even as he’s come around to accepting the historical credibility of the Gospels as a whole) regard as possibly pious fabrications.
What applies to an extreme religious event like Christmas also applies to a lot of supernatural evidence. To the extent that the religious data seems convincing, to the extent that this world seems far more intentional than accidental, it’s still
usually possible to imagine a scenario in which the data was more convincing still — where God’s existence was 10% clearer or 30% more certain, where skepticism had slightly fewer refuges and the religious argument was more assured of carrying the day.
Take the evidence for consciousness as a property unto itself, intertwining with the material world but not dependent on matter for existence and capable of surviving in some form after death. Murray’s book and mine offer overlapping accounts of why one should take this view seriously, from direct experience to philosophical inquiry to scientific findings to all the wild reports from the borderlands of perception and the frontiers of life and death.
But consider one example that his book alone discusses: the strange phenomenon of terminal lucidity, in which people with a catastrophic loss of brain functioning, a near-total loss of self, suddenly return to themselves and have a normalseeming, often beautiful encounter with family members just before they die.
Murray’s discussion of this phenomenon yielded some argument over whether these unexpected returns are physiologically inexplicable. But even if you accept that terminal lucidity is one of the many aspects of reality that make a lot more sense if you posit a God than if you don’t, it also has this important feature: Not everyone experiences it. It may be more common than official medicine acknowledges or understands, but it’s certainly not something that the family members of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia can simply count on in their loved one’s final days. It’s a thing shown to some and not others, a grace bestowed rather than a predictable event.
And why is that? Why does it have to be unpredictable? Wouldn’t the world be a better place if this particular piece of evidence for consciousness’s immaterial integrity were just made available to everyone dealing with a dying parent, a lost-to-dementia spouse? There’s a lot of suffering in life and a beyond-extra dose of suffering involved in having someone you love disappear mentally long before they die. Why not give all caregivers the reassurance of a last encounter, all sufferers a last chance to recollect ourselves to ourselves?
While also, of course, giving the religious arguers one especially sharp arrow in our attempts to persuade skeptics and materialists that they do, in fact, possess a soul?
One possible answer is that it wouldn’t matter all that much, that short of a world where God is always and everywhere apparent and all creaturely freedom overridden, there’s no evidentiary dial that you can turn that would overwhelm the will to disbelieve. And certainly you can find examples in which more evidence doesn’t seem to help — nonconversion stories in which people have an enviably direct experience of God and say, in essence, “no, thanks.” (Maybe some of the shepherds saw the angelic choirs and just went back to sleep.)
But having spent more time than usual arguing about religion in 2025, I think that there are a few dials that God
could twist that would strengthen my position, and I definitely wouldn’t say no if I were offered, say, a few contemporary versions of the 17th century’s saintly levitators as backup for my arguments.
In their absence (for now, before the Machine God is unveiled or the UFOs descend), the reasonable religious conclusion has to be that skepticism no less than suffering belongs to the divine plan, that whatever calibration made this universe very good to create also requires space for some of its denizens to believe that nobody created it.
Which means that neither Charles Murray nor I should become too smug in our shared insights or too disappointed when readers find those supposed insights unconvincing. The settling of these debates, no less than the announcement of a birth 2,000 years ago, is reserved to higher powers than our own.
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SAN JUAN – El comisionado residente de Puerto Rico, Pablo José Hernández Rivera, informó el jueves que cuatro organizaciones en la Isla recibirán 3,193,305 dólares para reforzar programas de apoyo dirigidos a niños, jóvenes y adultos mayores bajo las iniciativas AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program y Senior Companion Program.
“Esta inversión de más de 3.1 millones de dólares asegura que nuestros niños, nuestros adultos mayores y nuestras familias reciban el apoyo que merecen. Cuando invertimos en servicio comunitario, invertimos en la fuerza y el corazón de Puerto Rico”, dijo Hernández Rivera, en declaraciones escritas.
Las asignaciones permitirán fortalecer servicios educativos, acompañamiento, mentoría y apoyo a personas envejecientes mediante voluntarios de 55 años o más. “Estos programas movilizan a cientos de voluntarios que brindan apoyo directo en sus comunidades”, añadió.
Los fondos se distribuirán entre el Municipio de San Juan, Esperanza Para la Vejez en Bayamón, la Oficina del Procurador de las Personas de Edad Avanzada y la Junta Central para Asuntos de la Vejez, con una combinación de programas FGP y SCP que suman más de 500 voluntarios en toda la Isla.
El comisionado señaló que estas iniciativas contribuyen a ampliar servicios esenciales y fortalecer la red de apoyo comunitario mediante proyectos ya establecidos en las regiones participantes.
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LA FORTALEZA – La gobernadora Jenniffer Aydin
González Colón anunció el jueves la firma de un acuerdo colaborativo con el alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero Lugo, junto al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales y la Oficina Central de Recuperación, Reconstrucción y Resiliencia, para viabilizar la reconstrucción y rehabilitación del Parque Luis Muñoz Rivera.
“Queremos potenciar aún más nuestro turismo, mientras mantenemos nuestra responsabilidad con el buen uso de los fondos federales. Este proyecto permitirá habilitar las 27 cuerdas de este parque histórico y continuar impulsando el desarrollo turístico exitoso de nuestra Ciudad Capital, asegurando instalaciones de primer orden para el disfrute de residentes y visitantes”, expresó la gobernadora en declaraciones escritas.
La gobernadora explicó que el Municipio de San
Juan administrará el proyecto utilizando fondos asignados por FEMA y el Servicio de Parques Nacionales. Añadió que esta acción se viabiliza mediante la Resolución Conjunta Número 3, que pospone la transferencia de titularidad del parque hasta que culminen las obras de reconstrucción.
Según se informó, el DRNA firmará una Escritura de Usufructo que permitirá el eventual traspaso al Municipio una vez se cumplan los trabajos requeridos. El acuerdo también asigna al Municipio las tareas de limpieza, disposición de basura, fumigación y mantenimiento general del parque hasta diciembre de 2028.
El alcalde agradeció el apoyo recibido al señalar que “gracias de una manera particular porque yo conozco bien al gobierno y estamos aquí gracias a usted”, en referencia a la gobernadora, al destacar la importancia histórica del parque para la capital.
Romero Lugo añadió que el parque forma parte del patrimonio edificado de San Juan y recordó que en 2026
se cumplen 100 años del inicio de su construcción. Indicó que la meta municipal es que, para 2032, este icónico espacio recreativo alcance condiciones superiores a las de su inauguración original en 1932.
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By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
Holiday movies are an escapist bunch, but this season, reality has a way of peeking through the cracks. Of course, the stories continue to have happy resolutions — don’t worry, the Grinch still doesn’t win — but instead of glittery princesses, mindless consumption and oblivious displays of wealth, we see people who struggle to live up to expectations or throw themselves into ludicrous schemes to pay their bills. It’s not like the British master of misery Mike Leigh is lurking around, but the tinsel feels a little more earned.
Below you will find most of the new movies available on major streamers at the time of publication, in alphabetical order.
‘Champagne Problems’
The France in Netflix movies and series tends to be as fantastical as the imaginary Aldovia and Montenaro, and so it goes in this surprisingly pleasant rom-com. Sydney Price (Minka Kelly) has been dispatched to Paris to finalize the purchase of a legacy Champagne house. On her very first day she falls for a dashing local, Henri (Tom Wozniczka), then learns that he is the heir of the family brand she’s trying to buy. “What are the chances?” Sydney’s sister (Maeve Courtier-Lilley) wonders, voicing viewers’ thoughts. Kelly is a little on the bland side but the French cast picks up the slack and helps turn the movie into a bubbly bauble. The money scene, however, comes courtesy of a German potential buyer (Flula Borg) who passionately argues on behalf of his countryman Hans Gruber in “Die Hard.”
(Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Jingle Bell Heist’
Even though she moved to London for cheaper health care, Sophia (Olivia Holt) must still find a pile of cash to fast-track her mother’s cancer treatment. Meanwhile, the security specialist Nick (Connor Swindells) needs funds to rebuild his life and remain connected to his young daughter, who is raised by her mother. Sophia and Nick team up to steal the personal stash of a crooked department-store owner, Maxwell Sterling (Peter Serafinowicz) around Christmas time. A caper with shades of romantic comedy, “Jingle Bell Heist” does not have the zip required by these two genres, but there are enough mildly amusing scenes to keep a properly egg-nogged viewer invested.
(Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Joy to the World’
Joy (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is an influencer monetizing her dream home life in numerous bestsellers — except that it is literally a dream, as she lives alone and fabricated an entire family. How she got away with those elaborate lies for so long defies credibility, but Joy looks about to depart the luck club: She must host a televised Christmas dinner with her husband and children. So she casts friends, neighbors, employees and semi-random strangers as her family for the cameras’ benefit. The always game Chad Michael Murray, who so memorably doffed his shirt in “The Merry Gentlemen” last year, turns up as Joy’s husband-for-hire, and his nonchalant charm and immaculate hair lighten up an otherwise average film.
(Stream it on Hulu.)
‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas’
Kate (Alicia Silverstone) and Everett (Oliver Hudson) have separated after years of marriage, and by the time of their first Christmas apart in their quaint Vermont town, he is already rebounding with the younger glamourpuss Tess (Jameela Jamil). Kate then begins flirting with the goofy himbo Chet (Pierson Fode) to get back at her supposedly estranged hubby. Hudson has the slightly concerned look of an actor who doesn’t quite understand what he signed up for, and even Silverstone can’t cover for Kate’s uptight ways. Fortunately the very funny Chet and Everett’s sweet dads (Geoffrey Owens and Derek McGrath) pop up often enough to enliven the proceedings.
(Stream it on Netflix.)
‘My Secret Santa’
It’s bad enough that Taylor (Alexandra Breckenridge, from “Virgin River”) loses her job right before the holidays, but then she discovers she needs to find a tidy sum to pay for the snowboard academy her daughter (Madison MacIsaac) dreams of attending. Taylor dresses as a man to land a Clausplaying gig at the local ski lodge, and soon her Santa beco -
mes a local celebrity. As if this weren’t tricky enough, she gets cozy with the owner’s wastrel son, Matthew (Ryan Eggold), who has just been hired as general manager. The movie is marred by its casting the hard-working Natasha (Tia Mowry), who was unjustly passed over for the executive job, as a villain. Thankfully a course correction happens just in time, and Breckenridge’s sunny energy does the rest.
(Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Merry Little Mystery’
The cozy mystery is a thriving, violencefree subgenre in which solving a case takes a backseat to the shenanigans of colorful characters like retired librarians and competitive knitters — or their pets. The holiday cozy pushes the gentleness even further, as illustrated in this Roku Channel offering in which Natasha (Jordin Sparks) takes on her late grandfather’s mantle as the Candy Cane Santa, a secret benefactor who delivers gifts to families in need. The only suspense is whether a journalist (Keon Alexander) hot on the mysterious dogooder’s tail will expose Natasha. Which is to say that there is no suspense at all, and that’s how we like it at this time of year.
(Stream it on the Roku Channel.)
‘Oh. What. Fun.’
If there’s one stuffed stocking this year, it’s Michael Showalter’s entry in the holiday sweepstakes. Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the kind of person who starts preparing for Christmas on Jan. 1 and doesn’t seem to mind that nobody raises a finger to help. But when her family leaves her behind on a group outing, she finally cracks. Showalter (a creator of the “Wet Hot American Summer” franchise) milks the comedy for all it’s worth thanks to a grade-A cast that includes Denis Leary as Claire’s husband; Felicity Jones, Chloë Grace Moretz and Dominic Sessa as their children; Jason Schwartzman as their son-in-law; and Eva Longoria as Claire’s favorite talk-show host. “Oh. What. Fun.” may be a thank-you note to all the moms who keep the holiday trains running on time, but it avoids sappiness to focus on the funny.
(Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)
‘Tinsel Town’
As his action franchise, “Killing Time,” comes to an end and his fed-up agent casts him off because he is a rude, entitled jerk, Brad (Kiefer Sutherland) must take a seasonal job in a British staging of “Cinderella.” But it’s not just any gig: It’s a pantomime, a holiday tradition heavily reliant on drag, reconfigured pop songs, broad jokes, audience participation and stars making fun of themselves (which is where Brad comes in). Chris Foggin’s movie is a handy introduction to panto for American viewers, even if it would have been nice to see
more of that “Cinderella.” Rebel Wilson plays it straight as the show’s choreographer but the most sneakily enjoyable thing here is watching Sutherland tries his darnedest to be funny, and not always succeed — Brad’s story might hit a little close to home, which of course adds a pinch of spice to the sugar.
(Rent or buy it on major platforms.)
‘Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy’
wNot only does a woman named Joy find joy, but here Tyler Perry also gives us a man who finds both Joy and joy. This Joy (Shannon Thornton, from “P-Valley”) is a New York fashion designer whose boss, Pat-Treek (Eric Stanton Betts), steals her ideas. Having gone to Colorado on a fool’s errand, the distraught Joy ends up in a frozen lake — happily, Perry doesn’t skimp on the outré plot developments. She is rescued by Ridge (Tosin Morohunfola), who has abs sculpted out of bronze, a voice like hot fudge and the wounded soul of a true romantic. A major step is when he frees her from the outhouse toilet onto which she got stuck by the freezing cold. From there, it is completely inevitable that these two hotties will end up together. Well done, Tyler Perry.
(Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)
‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’
This ridiculously entertaining Disney original joins a long line of pop mockumentaries starring real bands in versions of themselves, from “A Hard Day’s Night” to the now-cult “Spice World.” Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas have barely wrapped up a tour in London (superfan Will Ferrell is in the audience) when they start bickering. To force them to rediscover their brotherly bond, Santa (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) meddles in the trio’s trip back to the United States for Christmas. Director Jessica Yu keeps things moving as the stars get hit by one ludicrous predicament after another. The highlight has got to be when Andrew Barth Feldman and Nick fight-duet on a number from “Home Alone: The Musical.” It’s a made-up show but now I really want to see it. Please, Santa, make it happen!
(Stream it on Disney+.)
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado says US helped her leave Venezuela
By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said she was able to leave the country after spending more than a year in hiding with the help of the United States.
“We had support from the United States government,” she told reporters in Oslo on Thursday, hours after arriving in Norway to join the festivities surrounding her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Machado declined to disclose the details of her departure, explaining that she wanted to protect her collaborators. The Trump administration has not publicly commented on Machado’s departure from Venezuela.
While Norway has a tiny Venezuelan population, Machado’s appearance in Oslo attracted a small, but exuberant crowd of supporters. When she emerged around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on the balcony of the historic Grand Hotel, people below erupted into cheers, chanted “freedom’’ and “peace in Spanish, and sang the Venezuelan national anthem.
Machado went into hiding soon after last year’s presidential election, in which the candidate she supported won a landslide victory, according to international monitors, despite concerted government efforts to intimidate and disable the opposition. President Nicolás Maduro claimed he was the winner and held on to power by repressing those who opposed him.
Earlier Thursday, Machado said the Venezuelan government had not known where she had been staying and would have tried to prevent her from traveling to Norway,
tivities in partnership with the United States’ adversaries.
“Venezuela has already been invaded,” she said at a news conference with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway earlier Thursday. “We have the Russian agents, we have the Iranian agents, we have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime. We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels.”
Venezuela has economic and security ties with Iranian, Chinese and Russian companies, and sells most of its oil to China, but there has been no conclusive evidence that Hezbollah and Hamas are present in Venezuela.
Maduro’s largest corporate partner is Chevron, the American energy giant, which has continued to export Venezuelan oil to the United States despite Trump’s military escalation.
where her daughter accepted the peace prize Wednesday on her behalf.
Venezuela’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, claimed Wednesday, without providing evidence, that the government was aware of her movements. Venezuelan officials also previously said Machado would be considered a fugitive if she left the country.
Machado acknowledged that she could face arrest if she returned to Venezuela under the current government. She added that she was unsure when she would be able to go back.
“I believe that the risk, even though it was very high, was worthwhile,” she said, referring to her trip. “And of course, the risk of going back is perhaps even higher.”
Machado has reentered the world stage as President Donald Trump has drastically escalated his pressure on the Venezuelan government, whom his administration has accused of flooding the United States with drugs and criminals, claims that experts have refuted. On Wednesday, the United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of the South American country.
Machado has not directly commented on the seizure, but on Thursday she repeatedly voiced support for Washington’s efforts to cut off Maduro’s sources of funding.
“I believe that President Trump’s actions have been decisive to reach the point where we are right now, in which the regime is weaker than ever,” she told reporters.
She added: “You need to raise the cost of staying in power and lower the cost of leaving power. Only when you do that, this regime will break down. And that’s where we’re moving toward right now.”
Machado repeatedly dodged questions about Trump’s threats of starting military action in Venezuela. But she has emulated the Trump administration’s portrayal of Maduro’s government, calling him a criminal mastermind engaged in a vast array of illegal ac-
Analysts said Machado’s decision to leave Venezuela has reestablished her as a major player in the escalating brinkmanship between Trump and Maduro. But they say Machado is facing a ticking clock, confronting the challenge of converting her international prominence into political change before she loses support inside Venezuela.
Previous Venezuelan opposition leaders who have gone into exile have quickly faded into relative obscurity.
The Trump administration has presented its military campaign in the Caribbean as a war against cartels, which it says are terrorizing the United States by causing an epidemic of drug-related deaths. It has labeled Maduro a “narco-terrorist,” and the head of two criminal organizations.
“I believe every country has the right to defend itself,” Machado said, referring to the U.S. military buildup.
Venezuela plays practically no role in the production and smuggling of fentanyl, which is responsible for the majority of drug-related deaths in the United States, and the South American country is a relatively minor player in the cocaine trade.
Machado did not discuss her next political moves, saying she would initially dedicate time to reconnecting with her three children and her team, and undergoing medical checkups.
“I couldn’t sleep last night, going over and over again about the first instant when I saw my children,” she said. “For many weeks, I have been thinking of that possibility, and which one of them I would hug first.”
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a rally in Guanare, Venezuela, July 17, 2024. Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times)
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US seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, escalating pressure on Maduro
By TYLER PAGER, ERIC SCHMITT and NICHOLAS NEHAMAS
The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a dramatic escalation in President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.
Speaking at the White House before an event on a new luxury visa program, Trump announced the operation and said it was “a large tanker, very large,” adding, without elaboration, that “other things are happening.”
When asked about the ship’s oil, Trump said, “Well, we keep it, I guess.” He declined to say who owned the tanker. “It was seized for a very good reason,” he added.
Three U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a law enforcement operation, said the ship was carrying Venezuelan oil. They said there was no resistance from the crew and no casualties.
In a statement, Venezuela’s government called the seizure a “barefaced robbery and an act of international piracy” aimed at stripping the country of its oil wealth.
The operation was the latest tactic in an expanding effort to squeeze Venezuela and pressure Maduro. The Trump administration has accused him of running a “narco-terrorist” cartel sending drugs to the United States, although many current and former officials in Washington say the campaign is ultimately aimed at regime change.
Since September, the United States has launched more than 22 known strikes against boats in the region, killing more than 80 people. The Trump administration insists, without publicly providing evidence, that the boats are smuggling drugs. Legal experts say the strikes may violate international law.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a video Wednesday evening on social media showing armed U.S. forces rappelling from a helicopter onto the deck of the tanker. The video could not be independently verified.
Bondi said the operation included the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard, supported by the Pentagon. She said the tanker had been used to transport “sanctioned oil” from Venezuela and Iran.
The U.S. officials said they expected additional seizures in the coming weeks as part of the administration’s efforts to weaken Maduro’s government by undermining its oil market.
One of the officials identified the tanker as a vessel called the Skipper and said it was carrying Venezuelan oil from Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company known
as PDVSA. The official said the ship had been previously linked to the smuggling of Iranian oil — a global black market that the Justice Department has been investigating for years. The vessel was sailing under the flag of another Latin American nation in which it was not registered, the official said, and its ultimate destination was Asia.
A federal judge issued a seizure warrant roughly two weeks ago because of the ship’s past activities smuggling Iranian oil, not because of links to the Maduro government, the official said. Prosecutors have said that Iran uses money generated from oil sales to finance its military and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which the United States has designated a terrorist entity.
The administration did not address many details about the operation, including what happened to the crew and what ultimately will happen to the ship. It was not clear whether the seizure warrant — which is sealed — was for the ship or the oil or both. The White House did not immediately respond when asked whether the United States had the legal authority to keep the oil.
The ship, under a different name, had been put under sanctions by the Treasury Department in 2022. U.S. officials said it was part of “an international oil smuggling network that facilitated oil trades and generated revenue” to support Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The tanker may have been trying to conceal its whereabouts by broadcasting falsified location data before the seizure, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and photographs
by
The New York Times.
The Navy, the Coast Guard, Southern Command and the Pentagon all declined to discuss the episode, referring questions to the White House.
Venezuela is exceptionally dependent on oil, which makes these kinds of seizures potentially damaging to the country’s fragile economy. Oil accounts for the bulk of the country’s export revenues. In turn, Venezuela’s government spends much of the proceeds from oil exports to import basic necessities like food and medicine.
Although Venezuela is believed to have colossal untapped oil reserves, the country produces far less oil than it did at the start of the century, after mismanagement, U.S. sanctions and corruption at PDVSA hobbled output.
The United States was long the largest buyer of Venezuela’s oil, but political tensions have eroded those ties. China now buys roughly 80% of Venezuela’s overall oil exports.
Smaller amounts of Venezuelan oil are exported to the United States, often to refineries on the Gulf Coast, and to Cuba, where the island nation’s communist leaders have long relied on such cargoes to provide a semblance of economic stability.
In recent months, Trump has ordered a huge buildup of U.S. forces in the region, with more than 15,000 troops and a dozen ships in the Caribbean, including the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. Trump has authorized covert action against Venezuela and has warned that the United States could “very soon” expand its attacks from boats off the Venezuelan coast to targets inside the country. But Trump has also recently spoken by phone with Maduro about a possible meeting. The president said Wednesday that he had not spoken to Maduro since their last conversation.
The administration has developed a range of options for military action in the country, including targeting Maduro and seizing control of the country’s oil fields. The president has repeatedly expressed reservations about an operation to remove Maduro from power, aides say, in part because of a fear that the operation could fail. Trump has been in no rush to make a decision, though he has shown a particular interest in extracting some of the value of Venezuela’s oil for the United States.
The oil tanker operation came on the same day the Nobel Peace Prize was formally bestowed on a Venezuelan dissident, María Corina Machado. She was not at the ceremony on Wednesday in Oslo, Norway, where her daughter received the prize on her behalf, but the Nobel Peace Prize committee said she had left Venezuela and was traveling to Oslo.
President Donald Trump conducts a business leaders roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at The White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump announced on Wednesday, an escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.
(Doug Mills/The New York Times)
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The Fed cut rates again but deep divisions cloud path ahead
Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, speaks at a press conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington on July 30, 2025. The central bank is poised to lower interest rates on Wednesday even as a growing chorus of officials urge caution. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times)
By COLBY SMITH
The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday in a highly contentious decision. The split among policymakers suggested that the central bank may be done lowering borrowing costs for the time being unless there are clear signs that the labor market is weakening further.
The decision to cut for a third meeting in a row shifted interest rates to a new range of 3.5% to 3.75%. It marked the fourth straight vote that was not backed by all members of the 12-person Federal
Open Market Committee, underscoring how fractured the central bank has become as it grapples with the risk of both rising unemployment and sticky inflation.
Stephen I. Miran, a member of the Board of Governors, opposed the decision in favor of a larger, half-point reduction. It is the third meeting in a row that Miran, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to join the Fed in September and is on a temporary leave of absence from the White House, has dissented.
Jeffrey R. Schmid, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, voted for the Fed to stand pat, as he did in October. He was joined this time by Aus-
tan D. Goolsbee, president of the Chicago Fed.
That degree of division is rare for Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who has previously been able to corral his colleagues to move as a largely cohesive group even while navigating tricky economic terrain. The split inside the Fed has only dialed up the pressure on Powell, who is simultaneously facing attacks from Trump and contenders seeking to replace him when his term as chair ends in May.
At a news conference after the decision, Powell said that divisions were only natural given the complicated environment the central bank is navigating. He said he could have made the case either way for the Fed to cut interest rates or pause reductions, describing it as a “close call.”
“You’ve got one tool,” he said. “You can’t do two things at once.”
New projections released Wednesday also highlighted the extent of the disagreement plaguing the Fed, which is composed of 12 regional presidents and seven members of the Board of Governors. The “dot plot,” a chart that aggregates what all 19 officials forecast will happen to borrowing costs over the coming years, showed that four other policymakers registered so-called soft dissents. They submitted a forecast for interest rates to have ended the year at the previous level of 3.75% to 4%, indicating their unofficial opposition to a cut.
By the end of 2026, most officials projected just one more quarter-point cut, in line with their forecasts the last time the dot plot was released three months ago. But officials were once again very divided. Seven of the 19 policymakers penciled in no reductions at all next year, while eight wanted at least two reductions. One official, likely to be Miran given his three dissents in favor of bigger cuts, penciled in interest rates falling closer to 2% over the course of next year.
In a further sign that the Fed is trying to keep open its options around interest rate decisions next year, the central bank amended its policy statement to say that it would assess the incoming economic data, evolving outlook and the balance of risks “in considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments.”
Powell on Wednesday made clear that no decision had been made about
the central bank’s next vote at the end of January. He said that after three quarterpoint reductions, interest rates were in the range of “neutral,” a level that the Fed has been seeking because it neither speeds up growth nor slows it down.
That meant the Fed was “well positioned to wait to see how the economy evolves,” he said. Powell also dismissed any suggested that the Fed may raise interest rates next year, saying that no policymaker supported that.
Shortly after Powell concluded his news conference, Trump expressed dismay that the Fed did not announce a deeper cut to interest rates on Wednesday, saying the central bank only reduced borrowing costs by a “rather small number that could have been doubled, at least doubled.”
“You can have tremendous growth without inflation,” Trump later said. “Everything goes up with the growth. But that’s not inflation. So I think we can do much better than traditional numbers.”
He later added that he was looking for a new chair who “will be honest with interest rates.”
“Our rates should be the lowest rates in the world,” Trump said.
The root of the disagreement inside the Fed stems from differing perspectives on whether to be more concerned about the prospects of inflation getting stuck above the central bank’s 2% target or the possibility that the labor market is on the cusp of cracking. What has made those judgment calls especially difficult is that officials have lacked access to crucial government data releases because of the shutdown that ended last month.
September’s jobs report was released only weeks ago and showed stronger monthly jobs growth but the unemployment rate rising to a four-year peak of 4.4%. That has occurred as price pressures have picked back up again, although the overall increase in inflation because of Trump’s tariffs has been less intense than first feared.
More clarity about the state of the economy may have helped to break the impasse between officials, but policymakers have had to make do without. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release November’s jobs report next week as well as the consumer price index report for the month.
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Las Ruinas Bathhouse & Gym, a world-class urban oasis, opens its doors in the heart of Old San Juan
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDEPOWERS
Recently, Las Ruinas
Bathhouse & Gym, a sanctuary inspired by the traditional bathhouses of Asian, Turkish, Moroccan, and Russian cultures, which served as spaces for healing, conversation, and community, opened in the heart of Old San Juan. Guests enjoyed a magical night among the lit sconces and partook of delectable bites and curated cocktails. They also immersed themselves in the welcoming sanctuary that aims to redefine holistic health, where the benefits of a true world-class spa coexist in perfect harmony with a modern, complete gym, surrounded by the history, splendor, and beautiful architecture of one of the oldest cities in the Americas.
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Archaeologists find oldest evidence of fire-making
By CARL ZIMMER
Some 400,000 years ago, in what is now eastern England, a group of Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to make fires by a watering hole — not just once, but time after time, over several generations.
That is the conclusion of a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Previously, the oldest known evidence of humans making fires dated back just 50,000 years. The new finding indicates that this critical step in human history occurred much earlier.
“A lot of people had a hunch that they were making fire at this date,” said Nick Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum and an author of the study. “But now we can convincingly say, ‘Yeah, this was the case.’”
From Charles Darwin on, biologists have looked upon the mastery of fire as a hallmark in the evolution of our species. Early humans may have first used fire to cook their food. That advance let them improve their diet, by removing toxins
from food and making it easier to absorb nutrients from their meals. Fires may have also kept them warm at night and kept predators at bay.
Later, they found new uses for fire. They cooked tree bark to create glue, which they used to anchor stone spear tips to wooden shafts. And starting about 10,000 years ago, humans began making fires to smelt copper and other metals, ushering in civilization.
As important as fire has been to our species, tracing its early history has proved an immense challenge. Rain can wash away ash and charcoal, erasing the evidence of a fire. Even when scientists do uncover the rare trace of an ancient blaze, it can be hard to determine whether it was created by people or ignited by lightning.
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a cave in South Africa. Human ancestors left behind tens of thousands of fragments of bones from the animals they butchered to eat. Of those fragments, 270 show signs of having been burned in a fire.
An undated photo provided by Craig Williams/The Trustees of the British Museum shows an artist’s conception of a fire in Barnham, southeast England, 400,000 years ago. (Craig Williams/The Trustees of the British Museum via The New York Times)
But clues like these don’t offer clear proof that those ancient people knew how to make a fire. They may have just stumbled across a wildfire from time to time, and figured out ways to take advantage of it. They might have learned to light a stick from the fire, and then carry the ember back to their cave to cook a meal.
But that approach had its limits, Ashton noted. “You’re dependent on local lightning strikes,” he said. “It’s very unpredictable, and you can’t rely on it.”
A crucial step took place when early humans figured out how to make fires on demand, either by using rocks to create sparks or rubbing a piece of wood until the friction started a flame. “Once you can make fire, all those problems evaporate,” Ashton said.
Ashton and his colleagues caught their first glimpse of ancient fires in 2013, as they were digging at an archaeological site called Barnham in eastern England. For decades, researchers had found ancient tools and other signs of early humans there. In 2013, Ashton and his colleagues found something new: pieces of oddly broken flint.
Only an intense heat could have shattered the hard rocks. But Ashton and his colleagues couldn’t determine if the fire that broke the Barnham flints had been created by humans or lightning.
For years afterward, the researchers retur-
ned to Barnham hoping to tackle that question, without any further success. Finally, on a summer day in 2021, Ashton had a thought. As he prepared to take a nap under an oak tree, he recalled how, a couple of years earlier, he had glimpsed an intriguing streak of red clay. The nap could wait.
“I thought, I’ll have a little poke around,” Ashton said.
He found the red streak, and quickly realized that it was a 2-foot-wide band of burned ancient soil. Had humans burned it, or had lighting? Ashton and his colleagues put the two possibilities to a test.
Over the next four years, they analyzed the chemistry of the sediment, while conducting further digs around it. Eventually they determined that, about 400,000 years ago, the site had been a watering hole, which Neanderthals probably visited in search of game.
A wildfire would have left evidence far from the site, but the researchers found none. What’s more, the same patch had been burned repeatedly over the course of decades. And the fires there reached intense temperatures and burned for hours. The researchers grew increasingly certain that generations of Neanderthals had intentionally set fires at Barnham.
A last major clue came to light with the discovery of pieces of pyrite alongside heat-shattered flints. Anthropologists have documented many groups of hunter-gatherers around the world who make fires by striking pyrite against flint.
All the more notable, Ashton said, was that the rocks for miles around Barnham don’t contain pyrite. He speculated that the fire-making Neanderthals must have brought pieces of it to Barnham. The nearest known source of the mineral is some 40 miles to the east.
The pyrite was “the icing on the cake,” said Ségolène Vandevelde, an archaeologist at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi who was not involved in the new study. “Altogether, it’s a really convincing case.”
But a question remains: How widespread was fire-making 400,000 years ago?
Perhaps not very, said Michael Chazan, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto who was not involved in the research. Other Neanderthals across Europe and the Near East might still have been collecting their embers from natural fires. Only at a place like Barnham did they have the right opportunity to learn how to make fires.
“This experiment seems to be local in scope,” Chazan said. “It still stands to reason that many Neanderthal groups did not have access to materials that could be used to strike a light.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Dementia comes in many forms. Alzheimer’s is just one.
By DANA G. SMITH
Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, most people who have dementia (including Alzheimer’s) show signs of several different types of neurodegenerative disease in their brains.
That can include the amyloid plaques and tau tangles that are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s; damage to the brain’s blood vessels, which is indicative of vascular dementia; and clumps of assorted other toxic proteins that cause Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and LATE.
“If you look at the old people with dementia, what do they have? Well, they have a little bit of everything,” said Dr. Costantino Iadecola, a professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
A person’s diagnosis largely depends on their main symptoms and what neurologists can see in their brain. While there aren’t treatments yet to stop or reverse the progression of any form of dementia, experts say that getting an accurate diagnosis is important to help manage symptoms and know what to expect as the disease progresses.
Here’s an explainer on the other primary types, including how they affect the brain and their symptoms.
Vascular dementia
Vascular dementia is the second most common kind of dementia. It can arise after a stroke, either one large one or several smaller ones, but more typically stems from long-term wear and tear on the brain’s smaller blood vessels. Damage often occurs to the brain’s white matter — the insulated nerve fibers that carry signals from one neuron to the next. Those fibers are the last stop for the smaller blood vessels, so if blood flow is occluded, it’s the white matter that suffers first.
When blood flow to the brain is disrupted, the brain cells are deprived of oxygen and nutrients, said Silvia Fossati, a professor of neural sciences at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine.
One of the most common symptoms of vascular dementia is general cognitive and physical slowing. This likely occurs because the signals in the brain aren’t moving as efficiently through the impaired white matter, Iadecola said. Other symptoms might include difficulty with decision making, problem solving and task execution.
Poor cardiovascular health, particularly high blood pressure, is the biggest risk factor. In fact, an important clue that someone has vascular dementia is a history of heart attack, stroke or high blood pressure. An MRI can help confirm the diagnosis by revealing the white matter damage.
As with any type of neurodegenerative disease, once brain cells are damaged, the symptoms are largely irreversible. But vascular dementia is more preventable than other forms of dementia.
“Let’s try to keep the blood vessels healthy,” Iadec-
Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. (Robert Samuel Hanson/The New York Times)
ola said. “That’s the best thing we can do right now. We know how to do that better than we know how to fight neurodegeneration.”
Lewy body dementia
This type can cause a constellation of symptoms involving the whole body. That’s because it’s “not just something that affects the brain, it affects the nervous system in the periphery as well,” said Dr. Sudha Seshadri, the founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Some people experience classic cognitive impairment, like problems with executive functioning, though memory loss is less common. Others have visual-spatial difficulties; for example, struggling to locate items in a pantry or judge distances. People may also have striking visual hallucinations.
Physical issues can include constipation, difficulty urinating, lightheadedness when standing up and, in men, erectile dysfunction. Parkinson’s disease symptoms can also occur, such as tremor, muscle rigidity and difficulty with balance.
The overlap with Parkinson’s makes sense because the two conditions are caused by the same dysfunctional protein, alpha-synuclein. The protein clumps into socalled “Lewy bodies” inside neurons, damaging and ultimately killing the cells. A person’s symptoms depend on which areas of the brain are affected first and how the toxic proteins spread.
Doctors tend to rely on a person’s symptoms to make a diagnosis, but that can be difficult because “they’re so different in different patients, and are not always easy to
recognize,” said Dr. David Irwin, an associate professor of neurology at Penn Medicine. As a result, Lewy body dementia is thought to be underdiagnosed.
Frontotemporal dementia
This type of dementia is rarer than the other forms, and it tends to emerge earlier in life, with people typically first experiencing symptoms in their 40s, 50s or 60s. The brain’s frontal lobe, as the name suggests, is one of the areas most affected. Cognitive symptoms often include difficulty with executive functioning, planning or organizing. Those problems may become apparent if someone has trouble managing their finances or planning a trip, Irwin said.
Dramatic personality changes can also occur. Some people become uninhibited and impulsive; they may approach strangers or make rude or inappropriate comments. People can also become apathetic and unmotivated, or emotionally cold and distant.
As a result, frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is often initially misdiagnosed as a psychiatric condition, said Dr. Winston Chiong, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. A lot of the core symptoms “get attributed to depression or mood or addiction or life events that cause people to behave differently,” he said.
Some people with FTD also experience primary progressive aphasia, or difficulty with speaking and comprehending language.
In the brain, there are two main proteins that become dysfunctional and are associated with FTD. One is TDP-43, which is also involved in LATE and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The other is tau, but different forms of tau than the one implicated in Alzheimer’s.
LATE
LATE, or limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, is a relatively new dementia diagnosis. It first came to light roughly 20 years ago, after scientists observed that many people who died with Alzheimer’s symptoms had toxic clusters of the protein TDP-43 in their brains (sometimes in lieu of amyloid and tau, and sometimes in addition to them).
As the acronym suggests, LATE is most common in the later decades. Dr. Peter Nelson, a professor of pathology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, said that roughly a third of people in their 80s and 90s have signs of the disease in their brains.
As with Alzheimer’s, the part of the brain most affected is the hippocampus, and memory loss is the most common symptom. On its own, LATE progresses slowly and “is relatively benign,” Nelson said. But people often have both LATE and Alzheimer’s concurrently, which results in “a more swift and severe clinical course,” including anxiety, depression, hallucinations and delusions. There isn’t a blood test for TDP-43, so doctors can only make a diagnosis based on a person’s symptoms and by ruling out other forms of dementia. The disease is most commonly discovered during an autopsy. The first clinical trial for a treatment for LATE is currently underway.
Stocks
Stocks mostly gain while Oracle sinks; US dollar, yields decline on Fed views
Major stock indexes mostly rose on Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 posting record closing highs even as technology-related shares fell following disappointing forecasts from Oracle, while the dollar and U.S. bond yields declined.
The Nasdaq ended lower, while the Dow and S&P 500 added to gains from the day before, when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates but gave a less hawkish outlook than expected. A global stock index was also higher.
Cloud computing giant Oracle reignited jitters over stratospheric tech valuations by missing analysts’ sales and profit estimates and flagging a $15 billion artificial intelligence overspend. Its shares were last down 10.8% and the S&P 500 tech sector was down as well. Shares of AI leader Nvidia were down 1.5%.
Earlier, Japan’s Nikkei lost almost 1% overnight as SoftBank - a partner with Oracle on the U.S. Stargate data centre projectslumped more than 7.5%. [.T]
“AI is going to remain in focus for the next 24 hours or so,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Stamford, Connecticut.
“Overall, the market is holding up fairly well considering how Oracle is trading and the fact that the AI space is weaker, but I think investors are a little bit cautious,” he said.
Investors were otherwise still focusing on the global interest rate outlook after the Fed lowered its benchmark funds rate, as expected, by 25 basis points to 3.5%-3.75% in a 9-3 split decision.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell sounded balanced at a press conference, saying he did not “think a rate hike is anyone’s base case.” That left interest rate futures with at least two rate cuts priced in for next year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 646.26 points, or 1.34%, to 48,704.01, the S&P 500 added 14.32 points, or 0.21%, to 6,901.00 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 60.30 points, or 0.25%, to 23,593.86.
MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe rose 3.17 points, or 0.31%, to 1,014.91. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.55%.
The U.S. dollar slumped, hitting multi-month lows against the euro, Swiss franc, and sterling and extending losses from the previous session.
The Swiss franc drew support from the Swiss National Bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady. Against the Swiss franc, the dollar weakened 0.63% to 0.795, after earlier touching its lowest level
since mid-November.
The euro was last up 0.43% at $1.1744 and hit its highest level since October 3. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro, fell 0.27% to 98.32.
U.S. Treasury yields also fell for a second straight session following the Fed policy statement.
The Fed also said on Wednesday that purchases of short-dated government bonds will begin on Friday, with an initial round totalling around $40 billion in Treasury bills - a move that was earlier and larger than what investors had expected.
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The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes fell 2.7 basis points to 4.137%, from 4.164% late on Wednesday. The yield snapped a four-session streak of gains on Wednesday, its longest run of gains in five weeks. The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations for the Fed, fell 3.9 basis points to 3.526%.
The euro zone’s benchmark Bund yield hovered near a ninemonth high as investors shifted focus to next week’s European Central Bank meeting.
Germany’s 10-year yields, the euro zone’s benchmark, were down 1.5 bps at 2.84% on Thursday. They hit 2.894% on Wednesday, their highest level since mid-March. The gap between U.S. and German yields dropped to 126.01, its lowest since June 2023.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court. CITATION
G .L. C. 210, § 6
Docket No. SU25A0631AD
In the matter of: Prynce Josiah Young-Ryder
To: Kendra YoungEdwards any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition tor the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth. A petition has been presented to said court by: Ryder Toney R of Hyde Park. MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617)788-8300
If you object to this adoption you are entitled to the appointment of an attorney if you are an indigent person. An indigent person is defined by SJC Rule 3:10. The definition includes but is not limited to persons receiving TAFDC, EACDC, poverty related veteran’s benefits, Medicaid, and SSI. The Court
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IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Boston ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: 11/17/2025
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Demandante V.
KARINA JANICE
CARDONA FELICIANO, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA Y JOHN DOE Y OTROS
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Caso Núm.: FL2025CV00010.
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Demandante Vs. JOSE A. RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA T/C/C JOSE RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, MELISSA E. VAZQUEZ DE HOYOS T/C/C MELISSA VAZQUEZ DE HOYOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
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A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: JOSÉ A. RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA T/C/C JOSÉ RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, POR SÍ Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LA SRA. MELISSA E. VÁZQUEZ DE HOYOS T/C/C MELISSA VÁZQUEZ DE HOYOS; A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) PO BOX 582 GARROCHALES, PR 00652; (B) PO BOX 948727 VEGA BAJA, PR 00693; (C) COMUNIDAD SAN LUIS #56 CALLE 3 ARECIBO, PR 00612. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $99,868.35 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en
exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,109.00 y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 54, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de marzo de 2011, ante el notario Antonio R. Pavia Vidal, modificada mediante las escrituras números 54, 9, 418 y 74, otorgadas en San Juan, Mayagüez, San Juan y San Juan, Puerto Rico, los días 17 de marzo de 2011, 13 de marzo de 2015, 28 de julio de 2047 y 25 de febrero de 2023, ante los Notarios Antonio R. Pavia Vidal, Fabiola A. Sepúlveda Acosta, Roberto Luis Varela Rios y Jackeline López González, respectivamente, de la finca número 47,693, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 215 del Tomo 1,262 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con
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PEGUERO SORIANO Demandante Vs. JOSE DANIEL
HERNANDEZ NEGRON Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF01515. Sala: 705. Sobre: DIVORCIO (R.I.). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. JOSÉ DANIEL HERNÁNDEZ NEGRÓNSE DESCONOCE.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en Ia Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso se requiere que dentro de Ios treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) Ia demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a la Lcda. Sharon W. Achecar Martínez P.O. BOX 16466 San Juan, P.R 00908- 6466; Tel (787) 617-4828, correo electrónico sharonwachecar@yahoo. com Abogada de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted( es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 05 de diciembre de 2025. sRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN M. FIGUEROA ANDINO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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Demandante V. Capítulo de la “ROWAN UNIVERSITY” dE LA FRATERNIDAD TAU KAPPA EPSILON Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV02832. (Salón: 902 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
VÍCTOR J. QUIÑONES MARTÍNEZ - VQUINONES@SYDNEYDENSON. COM. A: CAPÍTULO DE LA “ROWAN UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD TAU KAPPA EPSILON, FRED GISMONDI, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “ROWAN UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD TAU KAPPA EPSILON. ALEC CHAN, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “ROWAN UNIVERSITY” DE LA FRATERNIDAD TAU KAPPA EPSILON. FULANO DE TAL; SUTANO MAS CUAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de diciembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 04 de diciembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ
Demandante Vs. BRIAN OMAR
RODRÍGUEZ ROSARIO
Demandado Civil Núm.: FA2025RF00284. Sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: BRIAN OMAR
RODRÍGUEZ ROSARIO824 CRANE STREET APT. 1, SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK.
Advertencia: Este es un documento oficial del Tribunal que se relaciona a sus derechos. Léalo con detenimiento. Si usted no lo entiende, consulte a un(a) abogado(a). POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad
Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda.
DE: MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ
(Entiéndase la parte demandante representada por su abogada) Lcda. Adriana Toro Ruiz Número Tribunal Supremo 17,854, Colegiada Número 18,985 PO Box 681, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792 Tel. / FAX: 787-656-9801 adrianatororuiz@gmail.com
Expedido bajo m firma y con el sello del tribunal, hoy día 8 de diciembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
TAINA HERNANDEZ T/C/P TAINA HERNANDEZ
VELAZQUEZ
Demandante V. PEDRO JOSE ROSARIO QUEZADA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: FA2025RF00242. (Salón: 203 RF). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. HILDA R. FIGUEROA SANTIAGOLCDA.HRFIGUEROA@GMAIL. COM. A: PEDRO JOSE ROSARIO QUEZADA, DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUD.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de diciembre de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: PEDRO JOSÉ RO-
SARIO QUEZADA - CENTRO
METROPOLITANO DE DETENCIÓN (METROPOLITAN
DETENTION CENTER) 652, CARRETERA PR 28, GUAYNABO, PR 00965; P.O. BOX 2005, CATAÑO, PR 00963. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. NORANGELY RIBOT AGUIAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN TRAVEL ENTERTAINMENT AND MARKETING LLC H/N/C FORMAL BUILDER
Demandante V. CAPÍTULO DE LA “CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO” DE LA FRATERNIDAD SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV02744.
(Salón: 902 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
VÍCTOR J. QUIÑONES MARTÍNEZ - VQUINONES@SYDNEYDENSON. COM. A: CAPÍTULO DE LA “CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO” DE LA FRATERNIDAD SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON; LANDON LAPORTE, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO” DE LA FRATERNIDAD SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON MITCHELL WILSON, EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL Y COMO AGENTE DEL CAPÍTULO DE LA “CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO” DE LA FRATERNIDAD SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON; FULANO DE TAL; SUTANO MAS CUAL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual
puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de diciembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 01 de diciembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ESTEBAN TORRES TORRES Y ENID
JOSEFINA RIVERA RIVERA
Demandante Vs. ABDÓN RODRÍGUEZ OJEDA, JUAN RODRÍGUEZ OTERO Y OTROS
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV05326. 503. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ABDÓN RODRÍGUEZ
OJEDA, JUAN
RODRÍGUEZ OTERO, TOMASA RODRÍGUEZ
OTERO, JULIA
RODRÍGUEZ OTERO, ADELINA RODRÍGUEZ
OTERO, CRUZ
RODRÍGUEZ OTERO, ISMAEL RODRÍGUEZ
OTERO, MOISÉS RODRÍGUEZ OTERO, CARMEN RODRÍGUEZ
CONDE, JULIA
RODRÍGUEZ CONDE, ISABEL RODRÍGUEZ
CONDE, LETICIA RODRÍGUEZ CONDE, JORGE RODRÍGUEZ
CONDE, LUIS
RODRÍGUEZ CONDE, RADAMÉS RODRÍGUEZ
CONDE, SIGFRIDO RODRÍGUEZ CONDE, LUZ MARÍA CONDE, JOSÉ GUADALUPE
PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ, MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
RODRÍGUEZ REYES,
MARÍA DEL CARMEN
RODRÍGUEZ REYES, VILMA RODRÍGUEZ
REYES, IDALIA
RODRÍGUEZ REYES,
CATALINA REYES
PÉREZ, JOSEPH PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, WILLIAM PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, ISIDORO TORRES
RODRIGUEZ, IDALI
COLON RODRIGUEZ, MIGDOEL RODRÍGUEZ REYES, SONIA
MARGARITA GARCIA, MERCEDES TORRES
RODRÍGUEZ, MENGANO, SUTANO Y JOHN DOE Y CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS. Por la presente, se les notifica a ustedes que se les ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Demanda de Usucapión. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Nombre del Abogado: BLANCA I. RODRIGUEZ SANTIAGO
RUA: 23,726 COL. 21,537 Dirección: AIG LAW OFFICE 345 Winston Churchill Ave. SAN JUAN, PR 00926
Tel: 787-763-2888
Correo Electrónico: lcdablancairis@gmail.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy a 4 de diciembre de 2025. MARÍA ELENA PÉREZ ORTIZ, JUEZA SUPERIOR. DADA EN BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO, HOY 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIGDALIA CRUZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Demandante Vs.
FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES POSEEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2025CV00505. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas que se designe con estos nombres ficticios, que puedan ser tenedor, portador, tenedores o portadores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario al que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que una Primera Enmienda de Pagaré otorgada el día 29 de junio de 2023 por Christian Vega González a favor de U.S. Small Business Administration, por la suma principal de $55,200.00, intereses al 2.188% y vencimiento al 14 de noviembre de 2052, según Affidávit Número, 5,564 ante el Notario Público Christian Cortés Riveras, se ha extraviado y no ha podido ser localizado, por lo que la parte demandante pide que se autorice la sustitución del mismo por un nuevo Pagaré Hipotecario.
La hipoteca que garantiza dicho pagaré fue constituida mediante Escritura Número 1 ante el Notario Público José Luis Fernández Esteves y que consta inscrita al Torno Karibe en la finca 21603 de Camuy, según inscripción 6, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: LAS VEREDAS, URBANIZACIÓN de Camuy, Solar D-9, Cabida 306.2251 metros cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con Calle 3. Sur, con Lote 20. Este, con Lote 10 del mismo bloque. Oeste, con Lote 8 del mismo bloque. Sobre dicho solar se ha edificado una estructura de hormigón y bloques de cemento para fines residenciales. Se segrega de la finca 500328 de Camuy. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y
requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, cuya dirección es: 273 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917, teléfono (787) 766-5269, a la dirección pedro.lopez-bergollo@sba.gov.
EXPEDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA
Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, hoy 1 de diciembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JOHANNA GONZÁLEZ VILELLA, SUBSECRETARIA.
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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de AGUADILLA. THAYNA LIZ NIEVES MERCADO v. CHRISTOPHER ONIL LOPEZ COLON
Caso Núm. AG2022RF00632. Sobre: FILIACION - ALIMENTOS. NOTIFICACIÓN – CITACIÓN PARA VISTA. EMPLAZARLO POR EDICTO A: SR CHRISTOPHER ONIL LOPEZ COLON
Dirección: P/C LCDA DORIS I SOTO LOPEZ PO BOX 910 AGUADILLA PR 00605
Se le requiere que comparezca ante el (la) Examinador(a) de Pensiones Alimentarias 2DO. PISO - CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA PR para que muestre causa por la cual no deba dictarse sentencia, resolución u orden, según lo solicitado en la Petición presentada por la parte peticionaria en relación con su obligación de prestar alimentos a favor de los (las) menores habidos entre las partes: J.N.M. Y/O J.L.N. (iniciales del (de los) menores) La Vista se celebrará: Híbrida.
Fecha: 14 DE ENERO DE 2026. Hora: 9:00 a.m. Híbrida:
El Tribunal autoriza que las siguientes personas o entidades participen de la vista por videoconferencia. Por ser este un procedimiento expedito de alimentos, se le advierte, que de estar debidamente citado(a) y no comparecer a la vista, el (la) Examinador(a), conforme dispone el Art. 13 inciso C. de la Ley Orgánica de la ASUME, podrá celebrar la vista en su ausencia y recomendar que se dicte orden de pensión alimentaria o filiación. Se incluye copia de la Petición. Usted deberá llenar en su totalidad la Planilla de Información Personal y Económica (PIPE) (OAT 435) y entregarla a este Tribunal en un término de cinco (5) días antes de la Vista ante el (la) Examinador(a). La Planilla deberá ser juramentada antes de entregarla. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico el 24 de noviembre de 2025. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria Regional. ABIGAIL REYES LAGUER, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CALIXTO LEBRON MONCLOVA, COMPUESTA POR CARMEN MILAGROS VAZQUEZ FELIX, RAFAEL OCHOTECO VAZQUEZ, SYLVIA MILAGROS LEBRON MONCLOVA Y FULANO DE CUAL Y ZUTANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES VAZQUEZ FELIX, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04342. (503). Sobre: (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: CARMEN MILAGROS VAZQUEZ FELIX, RAFAEL
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN
NYDIA ALONSO MARRERO, T/C/C/ CARMEN N. ALONSO MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR FREDDY ALBERTO ROLÓN ALONSO Y NYDIA ENID ROLÓN ALONSO, T/C/C NYDIA ENID DE LEÓN Peticionario EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00667.
Sala: 502. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALTURAS DE VEGA BAJA CORPORATION.
El demandante ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud para que se declare a favor de la Sucesión de Carmen Nydia Alonso Marrero, t/c/c Carmen N. Alonso Marrero, compuesta por Freddy Alberto Rolón Alonso y Enid Rolón Alonso, t/c/c Nydia Enid De León, el dominio de la siguiente finca:
URBANA: Solar D-14A localizado en la Urbanización Altura de Vega Baja, Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, con una cabida de Doscientos Cincuenta y Dos metros cuadrados y Cuatro Mil Cuatrocientos Veintiséis diezmilésimas de metro (252.4426 mc). Representa al peticionario, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente: Lcda. Ivette Rossana García Cruz PO BOX 373151 Cayey, PR 00737-3151
E-mail: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com
Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, para que cualquier persona con interés y/o las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la presente causa de acción de dominio y a todo ciudadano que tenga algún derecho real en dicho bien, para que comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación del edicto. Se les apercibe que, si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 13 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS VIERA CEPEDA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO LUIS VIERA-CEPEDA, COMO LUIS NAVARRO CEPEDA, COMO LUIS VIERA Y COMO LUIS NAVARRO, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLESHEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; LA SUCESIÓN TERESA TORRES SERRANO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO TERESA TORRES, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm. FA2025CV00735. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS VIERA CEPEDA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO LUIS VIERA-CEPEDA, COMO LUIS NAVARRO CEPEDA, COMO LUIS VIERA Y COMO LUIS NAVARRO, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; LA SUCESIÓN TERESA TORRES SERRANO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO TERESA TORRES,
COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.
El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de los causantes, LUIS VIERA CEPEDA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO LUIS VIERA-CEPEDA, COMO LUIS NAVARRO CEPEDA, COMO LUIS VIERA Y COMO LUIS NAVARRO, y TERESA TORRES SERRANO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO
TERESA TORRES. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074 TROMBERG, MILLER, MORRIS & PARTNERS, LLC 623 Ponce de León Avenue Executive Building, Ste. 1100A-2 San Juan, PR 00917 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 24 de noviembre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ROSA MARÍA
RIVERA GONZÁLEZ
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ABRAHAM
GARCÍA GARCÍA Y SUCESIÓN DE LUZ
MARÍA FONTÁNEZ
RAMOS, Y OTROS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV00137. Sala: 804. Sobre: ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUZ BRANCARLIS GARCÍA PAULINO Y BRYAN JOEL GARCÍA PAULINO COMO
MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ABRAHAM GARCÍA FONTÁNEZ.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Caguas, el Caso Civil Núm. CG2025CV00137. Se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se requiere que notifique a la LCDA. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZ, a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 373151, CAYEY, PR 00007373151. Teléfono 787-286-9900 Email: garciacruzlaw@gmail. com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, copia de sus alegaciones y/o contestación a la demanda. Extendido bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 3 de diciembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TO2025CV01293.
(Salón: 703). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ARMANDO J. MARTÍNEZ VILELLAAMARTINEZ@AMVLAWPR.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KAREN M. ACEVEDO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF WATERFALL VICTORIA IIINB GRANTOR TRUST
Demandante Vs. SUCESION IRAIDA MARIA CLEDE EGEA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV03614. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 8 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 97 del bloque “EL” del plano de inscripción de la Segunda Extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, situado en el Barrio Sabana Llana de la Municipalidad de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 323.25 metros cuadrados. Colindando por NOROESTE, en 15.06 metros con la Calle 123; por el SURESTE, en 13.05 metros con los solares 103 y 104; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 98; por el OESTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 96.” Inscrita al folio 117 del tomo 158 de Sabana Llana, finca 7013, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 1041 de Sabana Llana, finca 7013, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, inscripción 14ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. COUNTRY CLUB, 1166 CALLE ANTONIA MARTINEZ, SAN JUAN, PR 00924. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $252,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 14 de mayo de 2080. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas
cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $252,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 15 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $168,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $126,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 26 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente la suma de: “Unpaid Principal Balance: $147,409.88 Interest through July 31, 2025: $177,726.04
Escrow Balance: $15,788.69
Corporate Advance: $5,340.00
Expense Advance: $3,131.80
Total: $349,396.41”. Además, se adeuda el equivalente del 10% del balance de principal original como cantidad líquida para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un
diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de noviembre de 2025. MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #251.
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VANESSA ILARRAZA OSORIO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FLORENTINO ILARRAZA ESQUILIN Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Número: RG2024CV00509. Sala: 306. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE LAUREANO ESQUILIN COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE AMELIA ESQUILIN COMPUESTA POR ALEJANDRO RAMOS ESQUILIN. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una petición de expediente de dominio. A fin de justificar la inscripción de sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación. RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en el barrio Guzman Abajo, carretera no. 186, km. 1.2 de la municipalidad de Rio Grande, P.R. con una cabida superficial de 837.0981 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.2130 cuerdas, en lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de 47.793 metros lineales, con camino de acceso existente, por el SUROESTE, en tres alineaciones que suman 48.67 metros lineales, con terrenos de la Sra. Silvia Castro, por el SURESTE, en una distancia de 19.361 metros lineales, con terrenos de la SUCN. LAUREANO ESQUILIN y por el NOROESTE, en una distancia de 15.015 metros lineales, con la carretera estatal número 186. La finca tiene un valor aproximado de $198,700.00 dólares. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le Emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, para que notifique a la LCDA.ALEXANDRA ROSARIO MORELL, a su dirección PO Box 79191 Carolina, PR 009849191, Tel. (939)204-8281 y/o a su email, alexandra.rosariomo-
rell@gmail.com con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Petición en este caso, las cuales podrá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Superior, dentro de los veinte (20) días contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, con la advertencia a los efectos de que si no contesta la Petición presentando el Original de la Contestación, ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte peticionaria, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO VANESSA ILARRAZA OSORIO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FLORENTINO ILARRAZA ESQUILIN Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Número: RG2024CV00509. Sala: 306. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE LAUREANO ESQUILIN COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO ESQUILIN COMPUESTA POR: SUSANA ESQUILIN T/C/C ZULE ESQUILIN, LYDIA ESQUILIN Y ANTONIO ESQUILIN.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una petición de expediente de dominio. A fin de justificar la inscripción de sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación.
RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en el barrio Guzman Abajo, carretera no. 186, km. 1.2 de la municipalidad de Rio Grande, P.R. con una cabida superficial de 837.0981 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.2130 cuerdas, en lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de 47.793 metros lineales, con camino de acceso existente, por el SUROESTE, en tres alineaciones que suman 48.67 metros lineales, con terrenos de la Sra. Silvia Castro, por el SURESTE, en una dis-
tancia de 19.361 metros lineales, con terrenos de la SUCN. LAUREANO ESQUILIN y por el NOROESTE, en una distancia de 15.015 metros lineales, con la carretera estatal número 186. La finca tiene un valor aproximado de $198,700.00 dólares. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le Emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, para que notifique a la LCDA.ALEXANDRA ROSARIO MORELL, a su dirección PO Box 79191 Carolina, PR 009849191, Tel. (939)204-8281 y/o a su email, alexandra.rosariomorell@gmail.com con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Petición en este caso, las cuales podrá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Superior, dentro de los veinte (20) días contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, con la advertencia a los efectos de que si no contesta la Petición presentando el Original de la Contestación, ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte peticionaria, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2025.
WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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VANESSA ILARRAZA OSORIO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FLORENTINO ILARRAZA ESQUILIN
Peticionaria EX PARTE Civil Número: RG2024CV00509. Sala: 306. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE LAUREANO ESQUILIN COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCA ESQUILIN SERANO ROSA COMPUESTA POR POLA, ISAÍAS Y TIBURÓN. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una petición de expediente de dominio. A fin de justificar la inscripción de sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación. RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en
el barrio Guzman Abajo, carretera no. 186, km. 1.2 de la municipalidad de Rio Grande, P.R. con una cabida superficial de 837.0981 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.2130 cuerdas, en lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de 47.793 metros lineales, con camino de acceso existente, por el SUROESTE, en tres alineaciones que suman 48.67 metros lineales, con terrenos de la Sra. Silvia Castro, por el SURESTE, en una distancia de 19.361 metros lineales, con terrenos de la SUCN. LAUREANO ESQUILIN y por el NOROESTE, en una distancia de 15.015 metros lineales, con la carretera estatal número 186. La finca tiene un valor aproximado de $198,700.00 dólares.
POR ESTE MEDIO, se le Emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, para que notifique a la LCDA.ALEXANDRA ROSARIO MORELL, a su dirección PO Box 79191 Carolina, PR 009849191, Tel. (939)204-8281 y/o a su email, alexandra.rosariomorell@gmail.com con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Petición en este caso, las cuales podrá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Superior, dentro de los veinte (20) días contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, con la advertencia a los efectos de que si no contesta la Petición presentando el Original de la Contestación, ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte peticionaria, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JOSE A. REYES FERREIRA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: MB2025CV00012. (Salón: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: JOSE A REYES
FERREIRADIRECCIONES: BO RIO
SECT LOS ROSARIOS CARR 8834 KM 22.1, GUAYNABO PR 00970; PO BOX 2621, GUAYNABO PR 00970. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. Evelyn Félix Vázquez, Secretaria. Dalissa Reyes De León, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
COMPU-LINK CORPORATION, D/B/A CELINK
Demandante V. SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00664. (Salón: 201). Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL
COMO PERSONA QUE OSTENTE
COMO ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO DEL PAGARÉ CUYO
RANGO REGISTRAL ES IMPUGNADO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el
08 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de diciembre de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. MARICARMEN DURIEUX DELGADO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2025CV00740. (Salón: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MARICARMEN DURIEUX DELGADODIRECCIONES: URB. VERDE MAR 846 CALLE 32, PUNTA SANTIAGO PR 00741; HC 15 BOX 16151, HUMACAO PR 00791; URB PALACIOS DEL SOL 69 CALLE RELAMPAGO, HUMACAO PR 00791. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ
THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE LEONOR FIGUEROA ROSARIO T/C/C LEONOR FIGUEROA COMP. POR JUAN PÉREZ FIGUEROA, HERED. CONOC.; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POS. HERED. DESC. CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCN. Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01182. (Salón: 102 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARREROPRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM. A: LA SUCESIÓN DE LEONOR FIGUEROA ROSARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LEONOR FIGUEROA, COMPUESTA POR JUAN PÉREZ FIGUEROA; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una
sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de diciembre de 2025. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN JULIA ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
WENDELL COLON LAW OFFICE
Demandante Vs. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS
CORPORATION H/N/C
CITIFINANCIAL; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BC2025CV00166. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDO. ORLANDO CAMACHO PADILLA, a su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha
demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, o a su orden, por la suma principal de cuarenta mil dólares ($40,000.00), a favor de Associates International Holding Corporation, o a su orden; (b) extinguida la obligación que evidencia dicho pagaré por haberse este extraviado sin haber sido nunca endosado ni negociado a terceros y luego de satisfecho el original e intereses del mismo; y (c) ordene su cancelación y la de la hipoteca que lo garantiza, o sea, la constituida mediante escritura número quinientos cincuenta y siete (#557), otorgada en Manatí, Puerto Rico, el once (11) de agosto de dos mil siete (2007), ante el Notario Público Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, pagaré a favor de Associates International Holding Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de cuarenta mil dólares ($40,000.00), y créditos adicionales, con intereses al siete punto setecientos cuarenta y uno por ciento (7.741%) anual, vencedero el dieciséis (16) de septiembre de veinte veintidós (2022) y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio cincuenta y siete (57) del tomo doscientos sesenta y ocho (268) de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca seis mil ochocientos cincuenta y cinco, inscripción novena (9na.). Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #68 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Garróchales del Barrio Garróchales del término municipal de Barceloneta, con una cabida superficial de 0.1780 CUERDAS, equivalentes a 799.69 METROS CUADRADO$. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela #69 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela #67 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con calle #1 de la comunidad. Enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. lnscrita al folio cincuenta y siete (57) del tomo doscientos sesenta y ocho (268) de Barceloneta, finca seis mil ochocientos cincuenta y cinco (6,855), Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, lnscripción novena (9na.). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 14 día de noviembre de 2025. Vivían Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Angélica Ayala Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
Teams rebounding and fouling their way to more possessions
By JOHN HOLLINGER / THE ATHLETIC
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. That has increasingly become NBA teams’ mindset when it comes to chasing extra possessions and the potential costs of doing so.
Let’s back up a bit. With a bit more than a quarter of the season complete and most teams in a lull as the NBA Cup plays out, it’s a good time to exhale and take a look at some leaguewide trends.
One notable shift that stands out is that fouls and free-throw attempts have sharply increased from a year ago. Although this can change over the course of a season as players and officials react to one another — most notably in the “no paint fouls” era in the second half of the 2023-24 season — I suspect this one is likely to stick because it is driven by bigger stylistic changes that we are seeing leaguewide.
First, the data on fouls. Leaguewide free-throw attempts per field goal attempt are up by 14.8% from a year ago, to 0.279 this season from 0.243 a year ago; leaguewide fouls per 100 possessions are up 13.4%. That comes in the wake of a flat half-decade-long trend line in the postCOVID era.
The 2022-23 season, with a 0.266 freethrow rate and 20.0 fouls per team per game, stands out as something of an outlier, and 2023-24 was trending the same way before an abrupt reduction in fouls and free throws after the All-Star break. Still, even those seasons pale beside what we have seen in 2025-26. To have double-digit per-
cent increases in foul rates in one season is a fairly extreme shift.
Pedants will note that pace is also up this year, which would affect personal fouls per game, but it’s only a 1.2% difference, and the foul rate has increased more than 10 times that amount. That isn’t the cause here.
What is? The first instinct is to blame the referees somehow, but that quickly leads to dead ends. I’ve been in a lot of arenas in the past month, and nobody is really talking about changes in the officiating this year. (As opposed to, say, March 2024, when everyone was talking about it.)
To my own eyes, I haven’t seen play types officiated differently from previous years. And anecdotally, postgame officiating rants have been uncommon.
A more possible boogeyman would be the Oklahoma City Thunder, who nearly set a record for defensive efficiency last season while finishing 26th in opponent free-throw rate. The team that finished just behind them in the defensive statistics, the Orlando Magic, was 29th in opponent free throws.
What those two teams mastered was so-called possession-ball. Oklahoma City and Orlando forced heaps of turnovers and controlled the boards, limiting opponents’ field goal attempts.
The flip side of that is the Houston Rockets’ approach, which is to go nuts on the offensive glass and attempt to win the possession battle that way. This is basically a new paradigm in the NBA, replacing the previous 2010s orthodoxy of limiting rebounding attempts to avoid surrendering transition. This more aggressive approach has increased offensive rebound rates across the league. (Well, except in Milwaukee.)
the 2023-24 season.
Perhaps as a reaction to the success of teams like the Thunder, Magic and Rockets, offensive rebounds and turnovers are way up this year. The leaguewide offensive rebound rate this season is 26.2%, and the leaguewide turnover rate is 13.0%. The rebound rate has jumped 8% just in the past two years and 18% from the league’s ebb of a 22.2% rebound rate in 2020-21. The turnover rate this season has not been exceeded in the past decade and is a 7.4% jump from last season.
Some individual teams have been wild outliers: Oklahoma City and the Phoenix Suns are turning teams over on more than 15% of their possessions, and Houston has an unthinkable 38% offensive rebound rate.
So back to our omelet: Possession-ball is not possible without fouls, and often fouls on both sides. Increasing offensive rebound attacks also increases the number of contested rebounds, which adds to the number of loose-ball fouls in both directions. One sight that has been especially common, however, is a referee on the baseline blowing the whistle, raising both arms and then pointing at the floor in an exaggerated “stays here” motion after the defense fouls an opposing offensive rebounder.
This happens nearly every game with the Rockets’ Steven Adams, whose 25.4% offensive rebound rate leads the league among players with at least 300 minutes played; Adams is drawing fouls and earning free throws without even touching the ball.
Teams have also leaned into using ball pressure to generate more turnovers. That’s a direct response to the ridiculous efficiency some modern offenses have achieved if they’re just allowed to play pop-a-shot and to the increased physicality allowed on the perimeter since the middle of
Of course, that’s only a part of it. Putbacks, as a shot type, also tend to generate a lot more shooting fouls than jumpers, putting even more pressure on the leaguewide foul rate.
The same applies to a lesser extent with ball pressure. Not only does it increase the risk of fouls 50 feet from the basket (in theory, at least, although the league has been reluctant to call all but the most egregious hand checks), it also increases the possibility of offensive fouls from frazzled dribblers.
Which takes us to the next question: Are foul rates about to escalate even more? It’s a copycat league, and the copying seems to be working. As much as teams like the Rockets have rediscovered the value of crashing the glass to their offenses, many
Houston Rockets center Steven Adams, whose 25.4% offensive rebound rate leads the league among players with at least 300 minutes played, is drawing fouls and earning free throws without even touching the ball. (X via BenjayCreates)
are seeing that the foul-turnover trade-off seems to favor the defense.
It’s not just the Thunder. The Detroit Pistons, for example, have the league’s third-best defense despite the worst opponent free-throw rate; they are third, however, in opponent turnover rate at 14.6% and second in offensive rebound rate at 31.5%. Phoenix has been less extreme, but it’s another surprise team that has benefited in a big way from owning the possession war despite a high foul rate. (The Thunder, I will note, have dialed back the fouling quite a bit in 2025-26; they are now just awesome at everything.)
Again, we have seen the ebbs and flows of leaguewide trends pivot before; the NBA could decide to call the game differently, or other factors we can’t even conceive of yet could persuade teams to tilt their focus in a different direction. Nonetheless, the possessions-and-fouls shift is one of the most notable stylistic changes we have seen in the league this season. Now the question, for the last three-quarters of the season, is whether the trend accelerates from here.
Wednesday night’s winter league baseball (LBPRC) results Ponce 3, San Juan 2 Santurce 8, Carolina 7 Mayagüez 5, Caguas 0
Sudoku
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
There could be a great deal of friction in your Ready to explore beyond your usual route? Your 9th House of Travel and Learning opens as chatty Mercury enters, and your bold mind craves a bigger map for brave debate. Plan a class you have wanted, asking for specifics that help you move forward, because clear questions open doors that once felt closed. If travel is off the table, broaden from home by watching a documentary, then share one brave idea out loud.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
A quiet courage steadies your heart today. Honest talks about trust get easier as intellectual Mercury moves into your 8th House of Shared Resources and Intimacy, inviting respectful transparency. You may calmly review a bill because caring facts lower stress and guide fair solutions that feel steady. If emotions rise, you can pause to sip water, write numbers down, and return to the conversation with steady facts and gentle patience, even if voices waver.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Partnership plans click into place smoothly. Cooperation grows when words stay playful and clear, as mischievous Mercury enters your 7th House of Partnerships and invites you to collaborate by proposing livable terms right now. Schedule a check-in that balances your needs with theirs without pressure, then confirm one next step. If someone gets jittery, you can lighten the tone with humor, then repeat the main point in one clear sentence to prevent confusion and defensiveness.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Morning routines ask for small, smart tweaks. With information-gathering Mercury entering your 6th House of Habits and Work, thoughtful scheduling choices help you protect energy while supporting well-being through a calmer pace. You may rework a task list because caring for details reduces stress and keeps day smooth. If moods swing, notice hunger and take a snack break, then return to messages with patience and a clear ask for help if needed.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Playful warmth lights up your creative spark. With messenger Mercury arriving in your 5th House of Creativity and Joy, ideas pour in, inviting you to make something heartfelt that reflects your generous heart. Plan a show-and-tell at work, because generous feedback gathers when you share with sincerity and welcome thoughtful questions. If someone overacts, your calm stage presence can steady the room, then spotlight the main message so everyone feels included and excited.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Virgo, your home base wants clear words. Your 4th House of Home and Family benefits as mental Mercury moves through, helping you organize space with caring structure that honors family rhythms. You may draft a chores plan, because simple structure reduces worry and keeps everyone on the same page during busy moments. If criticism creeps in, switch to curiosity and ask what helps, then solve one small problem and celebrate the win.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Short trips bring timely chances to connect. Your 3rd House of Communication and Neighbors lights up as clever Mercury arrives, and conversations flourish as you share ideas while practicing clear asks each day. You might check in with a sibling to gently mend a small divide and restore cooperation today. If decisions stall, suggest a brief pause and revisit the choice after lunch, because fairness grows when everyone feels heard and unhurried.
Scorpio (Oct
24-Nov 22)
Ready to protect what truly matters? With cerebral Mercury activating your 2nd House of Money and Self-Worth, you can carefully examine costs to anchor choices that respect your values today. Consider negotiating a raise because steady confidence grows when your numbers match the effort you give, and your calm presence supports the conversation. Your perceptive nature spots hidden fees and weak promises, so trust your instincts, then put terms in writing to support future accountability. L
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Sagittarius, your voice carries farther than usual. Self-expression feels natural and strong as chatty Mercury lights up your sense of self, so your message lands with optimism and honesty. Use your adventurous spirit to start a conversation you have delayed and match your words to how you want to be seen. If feedback arrives fast, breathe and listen, echo the key point back to show you heard before offering your next thought.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
TQuiet reflections guide your steps with care. Private reflection untangles knots as intellectual Mercury slips into your 12th House of Solitude and Closure, helping you edit plans to find rest without guilt. You may journal before work, because compassion strengthens discipline and steadies your path, especially when expectations feel heavy. If a problem resurfaces, treat it like a puzzle, then solve a small piece and schedule rest for a calmer window.
Aquarius (Jan
21-Feb 19)
Craving camaraderie with people who care? Your 11th House of Friends and Community hums as mischievous Mercury energizes it, sparking group conversation that moves a shared vision forward this week. You might propose a volunteer day that improves how everyone connects and turns casual acquaintances into real teammates. If opinions clash, invite a round of listening, then highlight overlap to build momentum, keeping the quirks that make your group special and alive.
Pisces
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
When you speak up, doors open professionally. With information-gathering Mercury in your 10th House of Career and Status, clear words polish your reputation across high-stakes moments that shape your public image. You may carefully refine a résumé because calm clarity prevents confusion and wins respect, especially when describing impact. Your intuitive read on the room helps you choose words that soothe nerves, then nudge decisions that matter to your next step right now.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
Ziggy
Herman
Speed Bump
