Puerto Rico: The exodus after Hurricane Maria 22:22. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's governor is imploring Congress to increase federal funding and approve several measures to help the ...

President Donald Trump is planning to visit Puerto Rico, which he says was “absolutely obliterated” by Hurricane Maria, and the administration and Congress are making plans to assemble an aid ...

Puerto Rico has submitted a report to Congress in which it pegs $139 billion as the amount it will need to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

A startling study has underscored the devastation Hurricane Maria caused in Puerto Rico. Outrage over the high death toll now must be channeled toward helping survivors and improving the island ...

Puerto Rican legislators and its governor, Pedro Pierluisi, a Democrat, were in Washington last week pushing Congress to pass the Puerto Rico Status Act, which calls for a binding 2023 vote by ...

Cash-strapped Puerto Rico’s energy grid took such a severe blow from deadly Hurricane Maria that restoring power to the island could take months, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló says.

For days, Puerto Rico and its Caribbean neighbors endured one of the worst hurricanes in recent memory. While many people are motivated to donate personally, many are also asking how Congress can ...

Jenniffer González-Colón, 41, is Puerto Rico’s representative to Congress. She lives in Carolina, Puerto Rico, near San Juan, and Arlington. You are a pro-Trump Republican and the ...

Puerto Rico is asking to become a US state. In fact, political leaders have been asking for a clear path to statehood since the 1960s. In 2016, the pro-statehood political party won control over ...

Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico six months ago, and it is still recovering. Hurricane Maria killed countless Puerto Ricans, caused $100 billion in damages, and in the six months since it ripped ...

In December, Congress greenlit $1 billion to "improve the resilience of Puerto Rico's electric grid,” on top of $11.4 billion already committed to the government-owned utility for recovery after ...