Hurricane Maria

• Hurricane Fiona rips through Puerto Rico, unleashes landslides, knocks out power

  Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico's southwest coast on Sunday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.

  World

  Sep 18, 2022
  
• Trump’s release of Puerto Rico aid ahead of election comes after years of attacks, denials

  Trump has spent years blasting Puerto Rican officials while opposing spending to rebuild a power grid and other infrastructure that was wiped out by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

  World

  Sep 19, 2020
  
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• Thousands remain without proper homes in Puerto Rico 3 years after Hurricane Maria

  Not a single repair or rebuilding job has been completed under a government program meant to repair and rebuild damaged homes.

  Jul 24, 2020
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• Puerto Ricans outraged after warehouse of emergency supplies went unused

  Puerto Rico's governor said she had ordered an investigation after learning the emergency supplies had been piled in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in September 2017.

  World

  Jan 18, 2020
• Trump to release $8.2B in disaster aid for Puerto Rico after earthquakes

  Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to divert disaster-recovery funds from Puerto Rico to help pay for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

  World

  Jan 15, 2020
• From wildfires to ISIS: These satellite images tell the story of a decade

  Spanning the globe, some stories were expected while others caught the world off guard. Some, including the Rohingya exodus, Arab Spring, BP oil spill and the melting of glaciers so massive they were visible from space through the satellite imagery of Maxar Technologies.

  Dec 23, 2019
• Puerto Rico’s new governor vows to evaluate contracts as corruption scandal simmers

  In one of her first moves as governor, she suspended a pending contract that is part of the program to rebuild and strengthen the island's power grid.

  World

  Aug 12, 2019
• Trump says he’s taken better care of Puerto Rico than ‘any living human being’

  “Puerto Rico has been taken better care of by Donald Trump than by any living human being,” Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for a rally in Michigan.

  Politics

  Mar 28, 2019
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• Hundreds mark Hurricane Maria anniversary with march at Mar-a-Lago

  One year since Hurricane Maria killed over 3,000 in Puerto Rico, activists marched to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property to protest the U.S.'s response to the disaster.

  World

  Sep 22, 2018
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• FEMA boss defends Donald Trump’s denial of Hurricane Maria death toll figures

  Long suggested that a George Washington University study — which concluded that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of the 2017 hurricane — may have contained misleading numbers. 

  World

  Sep 16, 2018