White House: 'Significant Progress' on Puerto Rico Year After Hurricane

The White House said Thursday it has made "significant progress" in restoring normal life on the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico, exactly a year after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. It said the Federal Emergency Management Agency faced "unprecedented challenges" when the Category  4 hurricane swept over the Caribbean island with 250 kilometer-per-hour winds, knocking out its electrical grid, sending cascading landslides and fallen trees over...

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