Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.

And the reggaeton artist born Benito Martinez Ocasio wanted Melendez-Badillo—who had recently published the book “Puerto Rico: A National History,” a study of ... a crippling debt crisis and ...

Private power company LUMA Energy said it could take two to three days to restore service to 90% of customers.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without ...

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to ...

More information: Evaluating the Impact of Hurricanes and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Puerto Rico: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis, Cancer (2025). DOI: 10.1002/cncr ...

2. Spread the word. Despite the widespread devastation, it's not clear that Americans fully understand how Hurricane Maria affected Puerto Rico, or that the island is a U.S. territory whose ...

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