Author: Manuel Roig-Franzia
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Three weeks since Hurricane Maria, much of Puerto Rico still dark, dry, frustrated
YABUCOA, PUERTO RICO — Late each night, Rafael Surillo Ruiz, the mayor of a town with one of Puerto Rico’s most critical ports, drives for miles on darkened roads, easing around downed power lines and crumpled tree branches – to check his email. At the wheel of his “guagua”- local slang for an SUV –…
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Bill Cosby will be retried on sexual assault charges in November
A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday set the retrial of comedian Bill Cosby on sexual assault charges to begin Nov. 6 in suburban Philadelphia. The decision was announced in a one-page court order by Stephen T. O’Neill, the Montgomery County, Pa., judge who declared a mistrial on June 17 when a seven-man, five-woman jury deadlocked on…
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In a PR blitz before his trial, Bill Cosby blames racism for sexual assault claims
In a rare interview airing Tuesday, Bill Cosby says he does not expect to testify at his upcoming felony sexual assault trial and that he believes racism played a big role in the scandal that has engulfed his life. During a 30-minute conversation with Sirius-XM host Michael Smerconish, the 79-year-old entertainer portrays himself as a…
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Who let the dog out? First pooch revealed
WASHINGTON – Who let the dog out?That’s the Washington mystery du jour.The identity of the first puppy – the one that the Washington press corps has been yelping about for months, the one President Obama has seemed to delight in dropping hints about – leaked out Saturday. This despite White House efforts to delay the…