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Hurricane Maria

Pregnant Woman Shares Terror as Fiona Mudslides Ravaged Home

‘WE WILL MAKE IT’

Kelene Jusino, 29, and her husband are now scrambling to salvage their home in Puerto Rico just a couple months before their baby is due.

Pilar Melendez | Published Sep 22, 2022

Puerto Rican Voters Could Flip Florida—If They Had ID

NO SUNSHINE HERE

Laws on the mainland and bureaucratic breakdown on the island complicate voting for Floridians fleeing disaster.

William Bredderman | Published Oct 29, 2020

Trump Wanted to Sell Puerto Rico, Former DHS Head Says

ISLAND FOR SALE

Elaine Duke revealed, “The president’s initial ideas were more of as a businessman...Can we outsource the electricity? Can we sell the island? You know, or divest of that asset?”

Blake Montgomery | Published Jul 11, 2020

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Mel Gibson’s New Pro-Police Brutality Movie Is Crazy Racist

THE HARDEST PASS

Racist anti-Semite Mel Gibson and woman-strangler Emile Hirsch star in “Force of Nature,” as Gibson’s brutal ex-cop with a dark past saves whites from a hurricane in Puerto Rico.

Nick Schager | Published Jun 26, 2020

U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Top 3,000, Passing 9/11 Death Toll

GRIM

As the pandemic steamrolls America, the nation is also set to overtake the number of fatalities reported by China.

Barbie Latza Nadeau | Published Mar 31, 2020

2 More Puerto Rico Officials Fired After Warehouse Discovery

FALLOUT

Puerto Rico’s governor ousted the heads of the housing and family departments a day after removing the emergency management agency director.

Emma Tucker | Published Jan 19, 2020

Puerto Rico Residents Find Warehouse Full of Unused Aid

OUTRAGEOUS

The discovery in the southern city of Ponce has sparked an uproar and led to the immediate firing of the island’s emergency management director.

Allison Quinn | Published Jan 18, 2020

Trump to Lift Hold on $8.2B in Puerto Rico Aid: Report

‘BEST NEWS’

The funding is part of congressionally authorized aid for the island’s recovery after Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017.

Anna Kaplan | Published Jan 15, 2020
opinion

How Badly Could Trump F*** Up Hurricane Dorian Response?

DORIAN AND DONALD

As the brutal hurricane threatens my dear home state, let’s remember the president’s one brush with natural disaster, and what a, well, disaster it was.

Rick Wilson | Published Aug 31, 2019

Trump Joked About Swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland: Report

‘HA... HA...’

In a meeting last year, according to a former official who heard him say it.

Olivia Messer | Published Aug 22, 2019

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