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Puerto Rico Officials Say All of Island Has Power Again
Power has been restored to all of Puerto Rico for the first time since Hurricane Maria struck nearly 11 months ago, officials said Tuesday. The island's electric utility announced that crews working in the southern city of Ponce reconnected the last neighborhood that had been offline since the Sept. 20 storm knocked out the U.S. territory's power grid.
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Puerto Rican Government Quietly Admits 1,427 Died in Hurricane
More than 20 times the official death toll for category-5 Maria.
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Puerto Rico: Transgenders Win Right To Alter Birth Certificates
A U.S. federal judge has ruled it unconstitutional to prohibit transgenders in Puerto Rico from modifying their birth certificates according to their gender identities. The LGBTI community won the longstanding legal battle July 16 after U.S. District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo overruled a policy from the government of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Ricans return to power grid, but fear for long term
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 devastated the U.S. territory nearly a year ago.
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A man harasses a woman for wearing a Puerto Rico shirt, saying it's 'un-American'
An Illinois park is investigating after a woman accused one of its police officers of standing by as a man harassed her for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag, saying it was un-American. Mia Irizarry says she was trying to celebrate her 24th birthday in the Forest Preserves of Cook County last month when the man approached her asking her why she was wearing the sleeveless Puerto Rico flag shirt, which also had "Puerto Rico" written below the V neckline.
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Puerto Ricans flood stores to stock up ahead of hurricane
With Puerto Rico still recovering from hurricanes Irma and Maria last year, cautious residents filled supermarkets and department stores Friday as the first Atlantic hurricane of the season approached the Caribbean. Hurricane Beryl, a Category 1 storm, is expected to move through the Lesser Antilles late Sunday and pass south of Puerto Rico. The island is expected to see minimal tropical storm-force winds, CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward said Friday, but it is hard to predict the storm's path beyond the 48-hour period.
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Hundreds of Puerto Ricans who fled Hurricane Maria to lose U.S. housing assistance
They may soon lose access to the motels they've called home since fleeing the deadly storm.
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Puerto Rico introduces bill to become US state by 2021
Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the island's unequal status is the cause for 5.4 million Puerto Ricans to currently reside in the continental U.S., a trend exacerbated by the damage inflicted in September by Hurricane Maria.
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US media turns blind eye to the death of 5,000 Puerto Ricans
The Harvard study on the impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico is a damning exposure of one of the most monstrous cover-ups in US history.
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Puerto Rico's empty shoes: Public demands transparency in Hurricane Maria death toll
Over 400 pairs of empty shoes appeared in San Juan, Puerto Rico, outside the capital building on Friday. It is a growing memorial to the hundreds of people presumed dead during or in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. This comes after a Harvard report published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that there were up to 4,600 more deaths than usual in the three months after Hurricane Maria.
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Study Estimates Hurricane Maria Killed Nearly 5,000, But Barely Makes News
On the day this week that Roseanne was canceled because of a racist tweet, researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated Hurricane Maria caused at least 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico. Now that is a story. That's almost 5,000 people who may have died, more than 70 times the official government toll of 64. It is more than twice the number who died when Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005.
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FEMA spent $75 million to dock a half-empty cruise ship off Puerto Rico for 4 months
The company behind Carnival cruises got more money from the federal government in connection with hurricanes that leveled much of Puerto Rico than the amount given to Puerto Ricans to rebuild their homes over the first four months of relief efforts.
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A New Study Says Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria. The Government Still Says 64 People Died.
The number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria was at least 70 times higher than the official death toll, according to a study published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study estimates that 5,740 people died as a result of the storm, rather than the 64 people counted in the Puerto Rican government’s official death toll, last updated on Dec. 4. The government’s count came under suspicion first by the Puerto Rico Center for Investigative Reporting and BuzzFeed News just days after the hurricane devastated the island.
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Couple denied motel room after clerk says Puerto Rican license is not U.S. ID
A Puerto Rican couple visiting Sacramento County for their niece’s wedding said they were unable to check into a Rancho Cordova Motel 6 because the front desk clerk didn’t believe they had valid U.S. identification. When Raul Villanueva presented his Puerto Rico driver’s license late Wednesday night, the clerk told him, “Oh, you need a license from the United States,” he said.
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In Puerto Rico, Stadium Lights Glow, Homes Do Not
The major league baseball games this week between the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians here had dual goals: to affirm the Puerto Rican government’s position that the island was open for business again after the devastation of Hurricane Maria seven months ago, and to showcase this American territory’s unique relationship with baseball. And then lights across the island went out again.
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Puerto Rico Hit by Islandwide Blackout as Grid Falters Again
The major failure, nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, could take up to 36 hours to fix.
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Puerto Rico’s blackout is now the second largest on record worldwide
Thousands are still without power across the island months after Hurricane Maria struck.
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FEMA: Puerto Rico running out of time as storm season nears
The administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday it will take up to an estimated $50 billion to help rebuild Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria and warned that the U.S. territory is not ready for another disaster.
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Trump treats Texas hurricane victims better than those from Puerto Rico
A new review illustrates how much more compassion Trump had for Texan hurricane victims than for Puerto Rican ones
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Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich “Puertopians” Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island
Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are designing a recovery that defends their island. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas. By Naomi Klein.
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