Puerto Rico has been hit with two lawsuits that for the first time challenge the constitutionality of a federal control board overseeing the island's finances and its power to start a bankruptcy-like court process for some of the U.S. territory's debts
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A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico's crisis-wracked finances announced Friday that it will impose furloughs for the first time in the U.S. territory's history.
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's choice to head the agency overseeing risky corners of the financial world.
Puerto Rico's governor is making a last-ditch effort to persuade a federal control board that furloughing tens of thousands of government workers would be an unnecessary blow to the U.S. territory's struggling economy
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A federal control board overseeing the finances of Puerto Rico's government says it will investigate the causes of the island's economic crisis as well as examine how its debt was issued and probe disclosure and selling practices.
Hannah Dreier arrived in Venezuela as an Associated Press correspondent in 2014, just in time to witness the country's accelerating descent into humanitarian catastrophe
