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An Arson Attack in Puerto Rico
A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.
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Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the Capitol. Jimmy Carter freed them.
(Carter wound up narrowly defeating Kennedy in the Puerto Rico primary.) The attack on the Capitol had occurred March 1, 1954. Four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party entered the ...
Tourist burned down Puerto Rico bar after being kicked out, authorities say
A Missouri woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arson after allegedly setting fire to a bar in Puerto Rico where authorities say she had twice clashed with employees on New Year’s Day.
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5 things to know for Jan. 2: New Orleans attack, Tesla explosion, fireworks chaos, Puerto Rico power outage, debt ceiling
It is the same platform used to obtain the truck involved in the New Orleans attack earlier Wednesday ... Power has been restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a massive outage on New ...
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An Arson Attack in Puerto Rico
On the night of January 1st, as Puerto Rico was recovering from an island ... The violence of the arson attack, and the major financial loss it brought to a neighborhood family, seemed like ...