13 September 2018 - An estimated 20,000 pallets of water bottles have been sitting on a landing strip in Puerto Rico since after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017.
12 July 2018 - A Facebook Live video prompted widespread outrage and an internal investigation into the conduct of a Cook County, Illinois, police officer.
28 August 2018 - Puerto Rico officials originally set the hurricane's death toll at 64, but a more recent assessment of the data yielded an estimate closer to 3,000.
2 January 2018 - A report in El Nuevo Día that the United States plans to return Puerto Rico to Spain was a Day of the Holy Innocents prank.
8 January 2018 - A California man's account brought to light one of the lesser-known aftereffects of the fatal storm.
6 December 2017 - Controversy over the commonwealth's budget is not new, but attention on the bonuses as Puerto Rico struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria is.
28 November 2017 - A newly created Florida company with an unproven record never delivered urgently needed supplies, which even months later remain in demand on the island.
A Facebook post brought attention to the retail chain's treatment of workers after Hurricane Maria.
25 October 2017 - Lawmakers are questioning why a $300 million contract was awarded to a two-person company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown of Whitefish, Montana.
16 October 2017 - Volunteer veterans, journalists, and others claim that FEMA is providing "meals" that are little more than unhealthy snacks to hurricane victims, but a FEMA spokesperson says images circulating online misrepresent what the agency is doing to help Puerto Ricans.
6 October 2017 - There is no proof that a viral image insulting the president has been posted "all over" the hurricane-damaged territory.
5 October 2017 - The Department of Agriculture agreed to waive the usual "hot food" ban for food stamps and denies rejecting an earlier waiver request.
