Puerto Ricans Don't Trust Their Government To Provide Hurricane Fiona Relief, So They Took It Into Their Own Hands

Millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) helped create a "reparations" commission that is pushing for a bail bond fund and K-12 curriculum reform, among other measures, to address systemic racism experienced by people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. The ARP Act, which Democrats passed in March 2021 without any Republican support, was billed by the Democratic Party as an economic necessity for getting the country through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bad Bunny of taking advantage of his home country’s tax breaks.During a recent appearance on Philip DeFranco’s YouTube show, Paul responded to Bad Bunny’s September music video for ‘El Apagón’, which was accompanied by a documentary about inequality in Puerto Rico due to the government’s foreign tax scheme.“Bad Bunny is a Puerto Rican living in Puerto Rico who is privately taking advantage of the same tax program that he is publicly condemning,” Paul told DeFranco.“I know this and I see things like this and it hurts. There are local Puerto Ricans who know about this.

4 min read It has been 1272 days since the last Mr Gay Pride Australia was crowned, but now, after being cancelled due to the pandemic, finalists for the next competition have finally been announced.

Haiti is preparing to seek military assistance from the international community to confront gangs that have blocked the country's principal fuel port, the Miami Herald reported on Friday, citing sources with knowledge of the decision. The government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry plans to make the written request on Friday to allied nations, without specifying where the troops should come from, the Herald reported.

Bad Bunny’s latest music video is a fun ode to Puerto Rico’s beaches and party scene, at least throughout its opening minutes. Afterward, the clip serves as an introduction for a 20-minute documentary that tackles Puerto Rican displacement, and how figures like Logan Paul contribute to this, reaping the benefits of the island while pushing natives out of their homes. In a new podcast, Paul addresses the video, saying that Bad Bunny is “hypocritical” since he’s reaping the same benefits that he is.

The conversation around Chris Pratt’s casting as the voice of Mario in Illumination and Nintendo’s upcoming The Super Mario Bros Movie was well underway before Thursday. But it hit a new gear after the first trailer – and first listen of Pratt’s interpretation of the video game icon — was released at New York Comic-Con. It hits theaters April 7, 2023.

Zack Sharf The trailer for Universal Pictures and Nintendo’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has debuted, bringing with it a first listen of Chris Pratt’s Mario voice. The actor told Variety earlier this year that he “worked really closely with the directors” to craft the perfect Mario voice, adding, “[We tried] out a few things and landed on something that I’m really proud of.” So what does Pratt’s Mario voice sound like? He only gets two brief lines of dialogue in the trailer (“What is this place?” and “Mushroom Kingdom, here we come!”), but it was enough to send social media into a craze with reactions. Many users found Pratt’s Mario voice too similar to Pratt’s own speaking voice, which led to confusion as the actor previously touted the voice as “unlike anything” fans had heard before.

Chris Pratt could be the hero of the mushroom kingdom.

President Biden will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, the White House said Thursday. The move applies to those convicted of simple possession of marijuana, including those in the District of Columbia, according to senior officials.  "As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana," Biden tweeted Thursday.

but to work with Biden, with Ana Navarro calling him DeSantis’ “daddy.”To kick off the Hot Topics discussion, moderator Whoopi Goldberg called up footage of statements from DeSantis and Biden this week, with the governor saying that he and his team “appreciate the team effort” from the White House, and that together, they are “cutting through the bureaucracy.” At that, Whoopi was thoroughly confused by the idea that a team-up between the two wouldn’t happen, even despite DeSantis’ past criticisms of the president.“I mean, what choice does he have?” Goldberg said. “He can’t stand there while [Biden] is standing there and say, ‘I hate what they did.

The Will Rogers Pioneers Assistance Fund is offering emergency aid to those who work in theatrical distribution and exhibition, as well as vendors in either sector, who were impacted or displaced by hurricanes Ian and Fiona in Florida and Puerto Rico.

President Biden raised a few eyebrows this week, after he said he was “sort of raised” in a Puerto Rican community in Delaware. That included Seth Meyers, who joked on Tuesday that Biden’s words sounded pretty similar to a grandpa’s first encounter with gay people.Biden was in Puerto Rico this week getting a look at hurricane damage when he made his comments, noting that Delaware has a large Puerto Rican population.

Russo-Ukraine war. The 79-year-old English rocker dropped the bombshell conspiracy theory during a recent interview with Rolling Stone.“Don’t forget, I’m on a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government,” declared Waters, who has repeatedly blamed Ukraine and the West for instigating the conflict.

Whitney Port has paid tribute to her father-in-law after he passed away. The 37-year-old fashion designer took to her Instagram Stories to reveal her husband, TV producer Tim Rosenman, has lost his father Doug Rosenman aged 78, and her family's hearts have been left "broken". She wrote: "We lost our sweet Pop Pop, Timmy's dad, this past Saturday.

Filmmaker Paul Schrader revealed some of the details of his next project at the New York Film Festival during the Q&A for his beautiful and more optimistic new film, “The Master Gardener.”  During the discussion with NYFF’s Dennis Lim and the film’s stars Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver, Schrader said his next film would be about a “trauma nurse working in Puerto Rico.” But as he detailed, in his conversation about “The Master Gardener” and the so-called God’s Lonely Man trilogy that includes “First Reformed” and “The Card Counter,” this vocation, trauma nurse would just be the “occupational metaphor” used to hide what the film is really about.

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Thania Garcia With only one more show left on the docket, Bad Bunny has just about finished the North American leg of his “World’s Hottest Tour.” That title has certainly lived up to its promise, as the Puerto Rican phenom achieved the top-grossing tour of August with this trek, consisting of several stops in the country’s biggest venues. Last night, he pulled out all the stops for the first of two back-to-back shows at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. He brought out several guests — including the reggaeton pioneer Ivy Queen, who played a medley of her hottest hits — and declared his love for L.A., inciting cheers throughout the night with: “¡Los Latinos in L.A., que se sienta!”

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando are closing down ahead of the approach of Hurricane Ian. In a statement posted online, Disney said that it would be closing its Walt Disney World theme parks and water parks on both Wednesday, Sept. 28. and Thursday, Sept. 29 as the storm approaches Florida. “We are monitoring the weather conditions so that we can make timely decisions for the safety of our cast and guests, including when it is safe for cast to return to the site to prepare for reopening,” the company said in a statement. Universal said in their own statement that Universal Orlando Resort, including CityWalk, would also shut down on Sept. 28 and Sept 29. Likewise, the Halloween Horror Nights events meant to take place those nights have been canceled. “We anticipate reopening on Sept. 30 as conditions permit,” the statement concluded.