A cell signal, an open bar: tiny wins for Puerto Rico in ruins
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans still living largely in darkness 12 days after Hurricane Maria leveled their island reveled in small victories on Sunday in what promises to be a months-long slog back to some semblance of normal life.
U.S. lawmakers ask Trump to ‘get to work’ on Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop sniping at Puerto Ricans and get to work helping them recover from a devastating hurricane, two days before he was to visit the island, where people remaine…
Ascend Performance announces leak in ammonia supply line
(Reuters) – Ascend Performance Materials said on Sunday that it had evacuated several structures after an ammonia product supply line leak in an undeveloped, publicly inaccessible area south of Houston in Brazoria County.
Fewer NFL players kneel during anthem as Trump repeats call for protest to end
(Reuters) – Several dozen NFL players, fewer than last week, chose to kneel during the U.S. national anthem before league games on Sunday, a day after President Donald Trump again demanded an end to a protest he sees as a sign of disrespect for the fla…
U.S. lawmakers urge Trump to ‘get to work’ on Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop sniping at Puerto Ricans and get to work helping them recover from a devastating hurricane, two days before he was to visit the island, where people remaine…
In Puerto Rico, acute shortages plunge the masses into survival struggle
FAJARDO, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Brian Jimenez had burned through dwindling supplies of scarce gasoline on a 45-minute drive in search of somewhere to fill his grandmother’s blood thinner prescription. He ended up in Fajardo, a scruffy town of strip malls on Puerto Rico’s northeastern tip, where a line of 400 waited outside a Walmart.
O.J. Simpson walks out of Nevada prison after serving nine years for robbery
(Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend after the “Trial of the Century,” was released early on Sunday from a prison in Nevada, where he had been held since 2008 for a botched armed robbery at a Las Vegas ca…
Trump defends federal response in Puerto Rico as criticism mounts
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday his government was doing a “great job” to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria and took a new swipe at critics who said he had been slow to aid the island, whose powe…
Three Miami Dolphins players defy Trump order to stand during anthem
LONDON (Reuters) – Three Miami Dolphins players knelt for the American national anthem before their NFL game in London on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump had said the previous day that it was “very important” that players stood.
Can’t guarantee tax cut for entire middle class: Mnuchin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said one of the top goals of the Trump administration’s tax plan is to help the middle class, but he could not guarantee that every middle-class family would receive a tax cut.
