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Jaguars owner donates 1,000 playoff tickets to refugees, displaced citizens from Puerto Rico

Jaguars owner Shad Khan has made a kind gesture ahead of the team's playoff matchup against the Bills on Sunday. He's donated 1,000 total tickets to refugees who've settled in Northwest Florida and displaced citizens from Puerto Rico. From the Jaguars' official press release (via  Jordan Ferrell ): "Shad Khan and the Jaguars Foundation have donated 500 tickets to Sunday's game to refugees from around the world who have settled in Northwest Florida. To identify these individuals, the Jaguars Foundation enlisted the support of Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida, which for more than 35 years has been aiding in the resettlement of refugees admitted to the United States due to dangerous political climates or natural disasters in their own countries. Another 500 tickets have been donated to displaced Puerto Ricans and their families in communities throughout Jaguars territory in North and Central Florida." By Chris Trapasso   Jaguars owner...

Is the United States Returning Puerto Rico to Spain?

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The United States government has secretly negotiated a deal to return the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico to Spain. In December 2017, word spread quickly via social media that the United States intends to return the territory of Puerto Rico to Spain after a report detailing such a plan was  published  in the Puerto Rican newspaper  El Nuevo Día. The report said the plan was the result of secret negotiations between the United States and Spain (translation ours): A hundred and nineteen years after the Treaty of Paris, which enabled the transfer of ownership of Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States, Madrid and Washington have virtually finalized an agreement to return the jurisdiction of the Caribbean island to the European country, endi.com sources have confirmed.  The deal, which has been negotiated in secret for at least two years, is not yet official, but it has the approval of Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Mariano Rajoy of Spain an...