Tag: Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico, 70 times official toll:...
TAMPA: Hurricane Maria, which pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2017, is likely responsible for the deaths of more than 4,600 people, some 70 times...
Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez to host telethon for hurricane victims
Celebrities including Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Stevie Wonder are set to appear Saturday night at a telethon for those affected by Hurricanes Harvey,...
Jennifer Lopez teams up with Marc Anthony, others in new single...
After tirelessly raising awareness for his beloved Puerto Rico, Hamilton and Moana composer Lin-Manuel Miranda--- in collaboration with artists like Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, and many others-- has released his...
Death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria more than doubles...
The death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria has more than doubled to 34, a spokesman for Governor Ricardo Rosello said on Tuesday.
The...
Beyonce sings in Spanish in hurricane relief remix
This collaboration marks the first new music by the pop superstar since she gave birth in June to twins – whom she references in...
Trump defends Puerto Rico effort, but his tweets draw new criticism
President Donald Trump on Sunday defended US efforts to bring relief to storm-battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying...
Makeshift, open-air police station shows Puerto Rico’s rebuild challenge
CAGUAS: If the people of the Puerto Rican city of Caguas need to find the police in coming weeks and maybe months, they will have...
Puerto Ricans unhappy with Trump’s disaster response
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Residents of Puerto Rico accused President Donald Trump of being slow to dispatch aid after Hurricane Maria and clumsy in...
US Navy to deploy hospital ship ‘Comfort’ to hurricane-battered Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON: The US Navy hospital ship Comfort is due to leave its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday for deployment to the hurricane-battered...
Puerto Rico rushes to evacuate thousands amid fears dam will burst
Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed Saturday to evacuate tens of thousands of people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of...
J.Lo. donates $1m to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico
Pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez on Sunday offered $1 million for Puerto Rico as she helped launch an effort by New York state...
Dam fails in Puerto Rico, 70,000 told to evacuate
SAN JUAN: Some 70,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Friday after a rain-swollen dam in Puerto Rico failed in the latest disaster caused...
Tempers fray in desperate search for survivors days after Mexico quake
MEXICO CITY: Tempers began to fray in Mexico City on Friday as the search for survivors amidst the twisted rubble of collapsed buildings became...
Hurricane Maria leaves Puerto Rico devastated and without power
SAN JUAN: On a good day it´s a Caribbean paradise but Puerto Rico looked Thursday like it had been to hell and back after...
Hurricane Maria clobbers Puerto Rico, plunges island into darkness
SAN JUAN: Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to strike Puerto Rico in nearly 90 years, carved a path of destruction through the US territory...
Hurricane Maria bears down on St. Croix, Puerto Rico after trashing...
Hurricane Maria, the second maximum-strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, killed at least one person in Guadeloupe and bore down menacingly on...
Category-5 Maria makes landfall in ‘potentially catastrophic’ hurricane
Hurricane Maria strengthened into a "potentially catastrophic" Category Five storm as it barrelled into eastern Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma, forcing residents to...