Puerto Rico 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
  
• 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 Rico’s population dwindled by nearly 130,000 people in the months after Hurricane Maria

  Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017, The population drop was due to deaths and people moving away.

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  Apr 18, 2019
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• 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
• 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
• Trump says Puerto Rico death toll went up ‘like magic’

  The U.S. president expressed disbelief on Twitter on how the Puerto Rico death toll rose so quickly to 3,000 deaths in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

  World

  Sep 15, 2018
• Trump denies 3,000 Puerto Ricans died due to Hurricane Maria, blames Democrats

  U.S. President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to deny a report that 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017.

  World

  Sep 13, 2018
• Trump’s boasts about ‘great’ hurricane response in Puerto Rico slammed as ‘blatantly false’

  Trump’s comments come after the government’s response to Maria has been harshly criticized.

  Weather

  Sep 12, 2018
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• Donald Trump says gov’t did ‘fantastic job in Puerto Rico’ despite deaths of 3,000 people after Hurricane Maria

  The U.S. territory's governor this week raised the official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 - almost twice the government's previous estimate.

  Environment

  Aug 30, 2018
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• Death toll from Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria raised from 64 to almost 3,000

  Puerto Rico’s governor raised the island’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 after a study found that the number of people who succumbed in the desperate, sweltering months after the storm was undercounted.

  Weather

  Aug 28, 2018