Category: Context of islands
#TBT: October 1, 2026
Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, activated October 1, 2020, is the first new Marine Corps base since...
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#TBT: September 24, 2026
Following the initial uprising in the town of Lares on September 23, revolutionaries officially...
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#TBT: September 17, 2026
Typhoon Choi-wan seen on September 17, 2009, after it tore through the Northern Mariana Islands...
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Alaska drops charges against American Samoans prosecuted for voting, but leaves door open for future charges
Alaska prosecutors dropped all criminal charges against 11 American Samoans from Whittier who had...
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#TBT: September 10, 2026
On September 10, 1993, the National Park Service finalized a 50-year lease with local Samoan...
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#TBT: September 3, 2026
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands resident Andy Evans holds her dog Roxanne while speaking with her...
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#TBT: August 27, 2026
The Tokai Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo freighter torpedoed by the US submarine USS Snapper...
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#TBT: August 20, 2026
Two men wear homemade face coverings during a protest on August 20, 1978, against the politically...
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#TBT: August 13, 2026
The Saipan Beacon was a daily military newspaper published by the United States Army Saipan Island...
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Puerto Rico’s water crisis, in context
Puerto Rico entered August 2026 under a rationing plan that its own water utility called a last...
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#TBT: August 8, 2026
On August 8, 1844, missionary Archibald Wright Murray wrote that Tutuilans planned to cede Pago...
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Sin U no hay PR: The crisis in the University of Puerto Rico, in context
In 2026, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) finds itself in the deepest institutional crisis...
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At a glance
- Status
- Unincorporated territory
- Capital
- San Juan
- Population
- 3.2 million
- Land area
- 3,515 sq mi
- Language
- Spanish, English
- President
- Donald Trump
- Governor
- Jenniffer González-Colón
- Resident Commissioner
- Pablo José Hernández Rivera
- Presidential vote
- No
- Voting representation in Congress
- No
- Official website
- www.pr.gov