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With song and sadness, Puerto Rico marks year since Hurricane Maria devastated island
Clapping and raising their hands to the sky, hundreds of people clad in white gathered at an 18th-century fort in the Puerto Rican capital on Thursday to remember the thousands who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria as the U.S. territory struggles to ...
'We will be 100 percent' with victims, Trump says on tour of storm-ravaged North Carolina
Handing out hot dogs, hugs and comforting words, President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to soothe those who suffered losses in Hurricane Florence, declaring that "America grieves for you" as he surveyed damage the powerful storm left behind. After being briefed on the recovery effort, Trump ...
A year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican kidney patients struggling to hang on
As weeks turned into months, the seats of the small plane began to empty out. In the beginning, 15 passengers flew from Vieques to the Puerto Rican mainland — refugees from Hurricane Maria. The storm had ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed Puerto Rico's official death toll of 3,000 from hurricanes last year and accused Democrats of inflating the figure, which actually came from an independent academic study. Trump bristled at criticism of his administration's handling of the Puerto Rico ...
Trump self-boasts sting in Puerto Rico amid slow recovery from deadly 2017 hurricane
President Donald Trump's assertion that the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria was "an incredible, unsung success" fell flat in Puerto Rico, where islanders are still struggling to recover from the devastating storm a year later. "I was indignant," said Gloria Rosado, a 62-year-old college ...
With a powerful hurricane bearing down on the Southeast coast, President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" even though a recent federal report found that ...
Trump says 'we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico' after being told 2017 storm killed almost 3,000
President Donald Trump lauded the U.S. response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year just a day after the commonwealth said almost 3,000 people died from the storm. "I think we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico," Trump told reporters Wednesday at the ...
Report: Nearly 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico linked to Hurricane Maria, especially among poor, elderly
Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico in the desperate, sweltering months after the storm — almost double the previous government estimate — with the elderly and impoverished most affected, according to an independent study ordered by the U.S. territory. The new estimate ...
Ten months after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's electric grid, the local agency responsible for rebuilding it is in chaos and more than $1 billion in federal funds meant to strengthen the rickety system has gone unspent, according to contractors and U.S. officials who ...
Almost a year after hurricanes Irma and Maria, Puerto Ricans are finally seeing power restored
It was finally a night to celebrate in this village tucked into the mountains of central Puerto Rico. People pressed TV remote buttons, clicked on fans and plugged in refrigerators as electricity again flowed into homes that had been without power since two major hurricanes ...
Budget cut casualty: Puerto Rico morgue overflows with unclaimed corpses
Puerto Rico's morgue is overflowing with unclaimed bodies, the result of budget cutbacks in the U.S. territory since last year's devastating Hurricane Maria. The bodies of 307 people are now being kept in the morgue and in four refrigerated containers in a nearby lot, the ...
With thousands left homeless by recent hurricanes in Caribbean island farming and fishing communities, international donors have pledged more than $2 billion to support rebuilding efforts. The announcement was made at a New York donor conference held by the United Nations and CARICOM, the Caribbean's ...
