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The Defense Department announced that a brigadier general will arrive in Puerto Rico on Wednesday to manage the disaster response after the territory was hit by two hurricanes. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
National Security

Pentagon sends general to Puerto Rico to oversee hurricane response

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke speaks with workers. Duke asked for the first time in history that all federal agencies contribute staff and expertise to the DHS Surge Capacity Force. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics

DHS has deployed 239 federal volunteers to help FEMA in hurricane-affected regions

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He said he can't get there earlier because the island is
News

Trump to visit Puerto Rico next week after Hurricane Maria devastation

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Jose Garcia Vicente holds a piece of plumbing he picked up, as he shows his destroyed home, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico while the Trump administration sought to blunt criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has fallen short of it efforts in Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes there. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
News

Paul Ryan: Puerto Rico aid is coming

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News

Democrats block FAA extension and hurricane tax relief

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News

Lin-Manuel Miranda to Trump: ‘American deaths on your watch’ if no aid to Puerto Rico soon

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On Aug. 30, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory said: It is premature to conclude that human activities - and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming - have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. (NOAA via AP)
Education

It’s too early to say if climate change is behind the rash of hurricanes

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Enacted in 1920, the Jones Act prohibits tankers from hauling oil between U.S. ports unless those vessels are American-made, flagged and manned by a crew that is 75 percent U.S. citizens. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Energy and Environment

The Jones Act dilemma: Cut regulations or boost jobs?

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One reason why Hurricanes Harvey and Irma caused so much damage is that people keep building and rebuilding in areas where floods are likely. They keep doing it, Matt Welch noted this week in the Los Angeles Times, because they are often being subsidized by the federal National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Opinion

Fixing flood insurance — now’s the time

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Voicemails to Gov. Rick Scott from Florida nursing home where 11 died were deleted: Report
Healthcare

Voicemails to Gov. Rick Scott from Florida nursing home where 11 died were deleted: Report

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