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Trump slams Puerto Rico: ‘They want everything to be done for them’
President Trump on Saturday criticized Puerto Rico's "poor leadership" and defended his administration's response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria's devastation on the island in an early morning series of tweets that earned immediate backlash from Democrats and other critics.
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Irma and María: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality
Puerto Rico is no stranger to crisis. By Ana Portnoy.
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Daddy Yankee literally saved Puerto Rico's food bank
Eyleen Gonzalez lost everything in her home after Hurricane Maria. She has no running water. No electricity. Barely any cell service to communicate with family. Her house is "destroyed." Her only valuable possession left is her puppy, Lena. But for just a moment on Saturday, Gonzalez forgot about life, its worries and Puerto Rico's long road ahead. "Daddy Yankee! Oh my God!" she said, beaming with a smile. "It's exciting to see and believe that he's helping the people in Puerto Rico because not everyone has a heart like him."
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Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is dying. By Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz.
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Hurricane Maria: government official acknowledges there are more deaths in Puerto Rico
The number of deaths related to Hurricane Maria exceeds the 16 that the government has officially accounted for so far, Puerto Rico Public Safety Secretary Héctor Pesquera acknowledged in an interview with the Center for Investigative Journalism.
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Donald Trump's only political skill is to feed hate and division
Every day in America there is a mass shooting where four people are killed or wounded. Every single day. So the body count has to be high for a US mass murder to make national or world news. Enter the latest name written in blood: Stephen Paddock. Who knows why he took aim at a crowd of concert-goers in Las Vegas but we can guess that he got what he wanted. His image and name will now be etched alongside the grim statistic - worst mass shooting in American history.
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Trump paper towel-throwing 'abominable'
The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, has described Donald Trump's visit to the hurricane-hit island as "insulting" and called him a "miscommunicator-in-chief". Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz described his televised meeting with officials as a "PR, 17-minute meeting". The sight of him throwing paper towels to people in the crowd was "terrible and abominable", she added. Mr Trump tweeted it had been a "great day" in Puerto Rico.
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112 Degrees With No Water: Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life And Death Daily
An American disaster medical team is now setting up cooling tents to help some patients.
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Elon Musk Suggests That Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Electricity System With Solar And Batteries
Puerto Rico hasn't had a great time of it recently, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria large portions of the country's power infrastructure is in disarray. A lot of effort has been done to provide aid, particularly from Elon Musk who had Tesla ship solar panels and Powerwall batteries to bring power back to the population.
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FEMA removes statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from website
As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its Web page documenting the federal response to Hurricane Maria. By Thursday morning, both of those key metrics were no longer on the Web page.
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Battered by Maria, farms in Puerto Rico face long recovery
In just a few hours, Hurricane Maria destroyed about 80 percent of the value of Puerto Rico's agricultural crops.
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Puerto Rico's governor says 'let's talk' after Elon Musk says Tesla can rebuild island's power grid
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said he will speak to Puerto Rico's governor about helping get the hurricane-hit island's power grid back online. On Thursday, Musk tweeted that his company has built solar grids for many small islands, adding that there "is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too."
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Musk: Tesla can rebuild Puerto Rico power grid
Billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk says that he believes he can rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid with batteries and solar power. “The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,” Musk tweeted on Thursday. “Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the people of PR.”
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A survivalist filled his massive basement with food — then decided Puerto Ricans needed it more
Joseph Badame was a lonely man, still grieving his wife’s death. And then he lost everything. Buried in debt because of eight years of medical bills and lost income, he could not prevent banks from foreclosing on his custom-built New Jersey home — an 8,500-square-foot fortress with separate living quarters for multiple families, plus a massive basement equipped with bunk beds, propane- and kerosene-powered refrigerators, laundry facilities and showers.
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Musk's Tesla 'can power Puerto Rico'
The Tesla founder says he can replace the island territory's destroyed power grid with solar energy.
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Scientists Scramble to Save 1,000 Primates on Puerto Rico’s “Monkey Island”
More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, scientists are still scrambling to save the more than 1,000 rhesus monkeys that live on a small piece of land off the main island’s southeast coast. Cayo Santiago, known as “Monkey Island,” has been a crucial resource for researchers studying primate behavior, cognition and genetics since the 1930s, when scientists brought monkeys to the island from southeast Asia. Since then, a population of rhesus macaques has thrived there, offering scientists a window into the primates’ lives.
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Without Power Until Next Year, Puerto Ricans Are Leaving—Maybe Forever
Joe and Maria Bernard cook in the dark over a gas stove outside their small hotel, the Tropical Guest House. “The days feel shorter,” says Maria, “we just have 12 hours of daylight to get everything done.” When it gets dark, the entire island of Vieques is dark. This is life on the world-renowned tourist island. And it’s going to be life for at least the next six to eight months, if not longer, before electricity is restored here.
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FCC Approves Alphabet's Project Loon for Hurricane-Devastated Puerto Rico
Alphabet's X unit has obtained an expedited license to set up the Project Loon balloon-based cell system to restore mobile phone service to hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico.
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Only 16 percent of Puerto Rico has power 3 weeks after Hurricane Maria
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall, only 16 percent of Puerto Rico's residents have electricity, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. But the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said the number is more like 10 percent after an outage at one nuclear plant.
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Puerto Rico Relief Bill Cancels $16 Billion in Debt — But Not for Puerto Rico
The House bill cancels $16 billion of the National Flood Insurance Program’s debt while loaning Puerto Rico $5 billion – money it will have to pay back. By David Dayen.
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