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After getting in some early jabs in about Donald Trump’s tariff threats on France for their wine (Trump said that he thinks American wines just look better), John Oliver dug into the text scandal and resignation of Ricardo Rossello, the Governor of Puerto Rico, on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. This week, Rossello said that…

Jimmy Fallon has described his Tonight Show visit to Puerto Rico, airing this evening, as a "party party" not "pity party" for the island still recovering from an historic 2017 hurricane, ongoing costs of which have been estimated at more than $130B. “You can feel the energy and the spirit of this place – the history…

Donald Trump kicked off Monday once again trying to hand over responsibility to Democrats for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. “Nancy and Cryin’ Chuck can end the Shutdown in 15 minutes. At this point it has become their, and the Democrats fault!” Tough sell, given that video of him bellowing at Senate…

UPDATED: As the death toll in Hurricane Florence climbed to five, President Donald Trump squeezed out more tweets insisting the number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria in a government funded study is horseradish served up by Democrats and journalists to attack him. Our president has been working up a froth all…

President Donald Trump washed his hands of any responsibility for the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last fall, even blaming Democrats for manipulating the figures to make him look bad. In two tweets this morning, with Hurricane Florence barreling toward the eastern coast, Trump not only…

President Donald Trump this morning took to twitter to assure people his administration is fully prepared to handle the hurricane forecast to be the worst to hit the Carolinas in a quarter century. Breaking from presidential tradition, Trump continued to use the Category 4 hurricane barreling toward the coast as an…

President Donald Trump’s press conference to update on U.S. plans to prepare for what could be a category 5 Hurricane Florence has created its own weather pattern after he referenced the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year as “incredibly successful.” His comments come as Florence…

Puerto Rico’s film industry still is recovering from the effects of Hurricane Maria, and now it’s been hit by a strike. Crew members working on a low-budget film called Selfie have walked off the job to protest what IATSE says is the company's failure to pay crew members "over $100,000." "The IATSE is currently on…

A judge has ruled Puerto Rico must release death data related to Hurricane Maria, after CNN, and the Center for Investigative Journalism, sued to get the data. The Puerto Rican government officially has put the official death toll at 64, but a Harvard study estimates more than 4,600 people may have died due to the…

MAG Film Studios in Puerto Rico is relaunching today after its offices sustained major damage from Hurricane Maria seven months ago. Electrical power failures still are affecting wide swaths of the devastated island, but the return of filming could boost its recovery. The studio, which plans to produce and distribute…

Graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez has announced that his original superhero La Borinqueña, will team up with comic book characters from DC Comics in Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico a comics anthology created to benefit ongoing relief efforts in Puerto Rico. The story will contain stories…

Lin-Manuel Miranda will return to play Alexander Hamilton in his smash musical Hamilton when it plays in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January. Miranda and producer Jeffrey Seller broke the news on the stage of the Teatro UPR theater in San Juan today. The University of Puerto Rico venue was damaged during Hurricane Maria…