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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As most Americans braced themselves for losing an hour of sleep this past weekend, some corners of the country were considering bold alternatives to daylight saving time. California has a bill that would ask voters to abolish the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Lawmakers
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Puerto Rico is sinking in $73 billion of debt. Mired in a long-running depression, the U.S. territory has already cut essential services to bare bones. Puerto Rico can't fully pay its bondholders without setting off total economic collapse. One of two things can happen, short of doing
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Puerto Rico's $72 billion public debt crisis has forced congressional leaders to pay attention to a U.S. territory that's usually on the sidelines of American politics. The island has been mired in economic stagnation for nearly a decade. The governor now says Puerto
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico will default on $37 million in payments due to creditors Friday, while it will make $594 million in other payments owed next week, the U.S. commonwealth's governor said Wednesday. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said that the payments to be made
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Written by Sergio Bustos MIAMI (AP) — Residents of Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens but can't vote for president. Yet Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton are campaigning there, following two other 2016 White House hopefuls.
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Written by Danica Coto SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's government said Friday it would not make a $58 million bond payment due on the weekend and warned that the general fund will run out of liquidity by November if no action is taken.
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