PHOTO: Gabriel Maseda/NurPhoto/Getty Images For more than a week, Puerto Rico has suffered the effects of Hurricane Maria, a category 4 storm that has left the entire U.S. territory without power potentially for months, without additional aid from other countries. That changed earlier today, when President Donald Trump finally waived the Jones Act, a 1920…
Read moreAmid the dizzying series of natural disasters to occur over the past few weeks was Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm that left all of Puerto Rico without power, potentially for months. It’s killed at least 24 people, and it still continues to damage infrastructure throughout the region as a Category 2 hurricane. To help…
Read moreJust days after the islands of the Caribbean weathered Hurricane Irma, another storm has left the entire population of Puerto Rico without power. As of noon Wednesday, all of the 1.5 million customers of the island’s power company were without service, which means there is no electricity grid for millions of people (it’s home to…
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