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Students in Puerto Rico will no longer have to pay U.S. college entrance exam fees.

Puerto Rico eliminates U.S. college entrance exam fees

By Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor says public school students will no longer have to pay to take the standardized entrance exams … Read More

Parranda.org will help Puerto Ricans connect and help each other in business.

Reinventing the Puerto Rican parranda as a networking website

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It is perhaps the most memorable and enduring of the Puerto Rican Christmas traditions.  Though it is known in other parts of Latin America, the Puerto Rican … Read More

Eva de la O, singer and founder of Música de Cámera (Courtesy El Diario de la Prensa)

A Puerto Rican soprano honored for providing stages for Latinos in classical music

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The New-York-born Puerto Rican, soprano singer Eva de la O -- whose orchestra just performed at the Merkin Concert Hall last week -- is one of six … Read More

Voters line up to pick up absentee ballots at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Doral, Fla.

Surprise! Obama won Florida’s Cuban vote

By Alessandra Hickson

President Obama didn't just win the state of Florida. New exit polls show that the President narrowly won the state's typically conservative Cuban … Read More

Mi Familia Vota Canvassers look at their route plan to see which way to walk.

Analysis: Puerto Ricans turned Florida blue

By Alessandra Hickson

President Obama's reelection may have been a sure thing after news outlets projected a win in Ohio, but today's reelection talk revolves around Florida. … Read More

Hispanics in Florida proved key to Obama's victory.

Florida’s Hispanic votes turned to Obama victory

By NBC News

NBC's Chuck Todd discusses how Florida may be used as a model for the rest of the country to show how changes in demographics, particularly an influx of … Read More

In this Nov. 3, 2012, photo, South Floridians stand in line during the last day of early voting in Miami. A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county Sunday, Nov. 4, after Democrats sued to allow more time in a presidential battleground state where more than 4 million ballots have already been cast.

Early voting chaos in Florida

By Alessandra Hickson

This weekend, just days before November 6, Florida's early voting turned to chaos. On Sunday, the state Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit forcing the … Read More

Jaffet Rios, 20, campaign volunteer for Barack Obama, organizes Spanish language election campaign signs to be distributed in Orlando, Fla. Democrats and Republicans are making an unprecedented effort to get the vote of Puerto Ricans living in the Interstate 4 Corridor, a large area in Central Florida. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher)

Puerto Ricans are key in Florida Presidential vote

By Charles Babington, Associated Press

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama has a problem with Florida's important Puerto Rican voters, and it has little to do with the immigration and … Read More

A woman checks for her name on an election worker's list as she and others wait to vote during the US presidential election at a polling place in 2004.

Judge orders state not to enforce Pennslyvania voter ID law before presidential election

By Marc Levy, Associated Press

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A judge postponed Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification requirement on Tuesday, ordering the state not to enforce it in … Read More

Voters ID laws have become a flashpoint in states like Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida.

Pennsylvania Voter ID law could be bad news for Puerto Ricans

By Marc Levy, Associated Press

A tough new voter identification law championed by Republicans can take effect in Pennsylvania for November's presidential election, a judge ruled Wednesday, … Read More