Sep 14 Hurricane Maria victims scramble for housing as FEMA vouchers expire By Patty Gorena Morales Nearly 1,000 families who evacuated Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria are scrambling against a deadline to find a place to sleep come Friday night, when the government’s housing assistance runs out. Continue reading
Sep 14 White House defends Trump’s false claims about Hurricane Maria’s aftermath in Puerto Rico By Catherine Lucey, Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Public health experts have estimated that nearly 3,000 perished because of the effects of Maria. But Trump, whose efforts to help the island territory recover have been persistently criticized, was having none of that Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 6:03 Trump disputes Puerto Rico’s hurricane death toll. Here’s how they are calculated In the months since Hurricane Maria, studies estimating the death toll in Puerto Rico have far exceeded the government's initial figure. But President Trump is denying a conclusion that nearly 3,000 people died as a result of the storm, and… Continue watching
Sep 13 Puerto Rican evacuees hunt for housing as vouchers expire By Mike Schneider, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press The clock began ticking late last month for hundreds of Puerto Rican evacuees who rely on federal assistance to pay for hotel rooms. Continue reading
Sep 13 Trump falsely claims that official Hurricane Maria death toll was lower than reported, blames Democrats By Catherine Lucey, Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Puerto Rico's governor last month raised the U.S. territory's official death toll from Hurricane Maria to 2,975. Continue reading
Aug 30 Hurricane Maria’s official death toll is 46 times higher than it was almost a year ago. Here’s why By Joshua Barajas Here's a closer look at all the different estimates of the death toll count and why, for the longest time, they didn't match the official post-hurricane count. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 4:37 News Wrap: Puerto Rico doubles previous estimate of Hurricane Maria deaths In our news wrap Tuesday, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello doubled the number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria in the six months after the storm. It's now close to 3,000. He also announced a government plan to create a… Continue watching
Aug 28 Hurricane’s death toll in Puerto Rico put at nearly 3,000 By Dánica Coto, Associated Press The new estimate of nearly 3,000 dead in the six months after Maria devastated the island in September 2017 and knocked out the entire electrical grid was made by researchers with the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George… Continue reading
Aug 14 5 important stories that have nothing to do with the Omarosa-Trump feud By Patty Gorena Morales, Joshua Barajas, Erica R. Hendry, Jessica Yarvin The Hurricane Maria deathtoll in Puerto Rico is more than 20 times higher than the government estimated, a jury has awards $289 million in damages to a man who claims a popular herbicide caused his cancer and other stories we're… Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch 4:16 News Wrap: Indonesia shaken by third strong quake In our news wrap Thursday, the death toll from a powerful earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok soared to over 300 people. Also, Puerto Rico’s government now estimates Hurricane Maria killed least 1,400 people after it hit the island… Continue watching