Hurricanes

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said the biggest problem in responding to the hurricane disaster is cutting the red tape of bureaucracy. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Energy and Environment

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz wants Trump to cut the red tape to help Puerto Rico

John Siciliano · October 1, 2017 1:33 pm

Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz arrives at San Francisco hospital in Rio Piedras area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cruz is open to meeting with President Trump when he visits the U.S. territory on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Energy and Environment

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz open to meeting with Trump after criticisms

John Siciliano · October 1, 2017 1:12 pm

President Trump is lashing out at the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a war of words over recovery efforts after Hurricane Maria smashed into the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Trump: Critics of Puerto Rico response are ‘politically motivated ingrates’

Kyle Feldscher · October 1, 2017 12:36 pm

The least Washington can do for an ailing San Juan is to free it from the Jones Act, so that a stricken community can recover faster and move on to a more prosperous future. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Help Puerto Rico recover — kill the Jones Act forever

Washington Examiner · October 1, 2017 4:01 am

Guaynabo Mayor Angel Perez Otero.

Washington Secrets

Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing ‘politics,’ AWOL at meetings

Paul Bedard · September 30, 2017 9:44 pm

A senior White House official said it's unknown whether President Trump will meet with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz when he visits Puerto Rico on Tuesday, and suggested the mayor has been "too busy" talking with the media to participate in federal response efforts to Hurricane Maria. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House official suggests San Juan mayor ‘too busy’ doing TV interviews to help with hurricane relief

Melissa Quinn · September 30, 2017 7:32 pm

Lady Gaga complained that President Trump is "not helping" Puerto Rico as opposed to recently hurricane-struck Florida and Texas, because unlike those states the U.S. territory doesn't get any Electoral College votes. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Lady Gaga: Trump ‘not helping’ Puerto Rico because of Electoral College math

Daniel Chaitin · September 30, 2017 7:17 pm

Retired general who led Katrina response defends San Juan mayor: ‘I hope the president has a good day of golf’

Retired general who led Katrina response defends San Juan mayor: ‘I hope the president has a good day of golf’

Melissa Quinn · September 30, 2017 5:07 pm

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., shared what he described as "more evidence" that President Trump was "derelict in his duty" to take preemptive action to protect the 3.5 million residents of Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria barreled down on the island last week. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Democrat shares NHC ‘evidence’ to show Trump was ‘derelict in his duty’ with Puerto Rico

Daniel Chaitin · September 30, 2017 4:56 pm

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., expresses his concern about steering as much of the construction work as possible to local and minority-owned businesses at the ceremonial start of construction of the Continental AG's $1.45 billion tire plant in Clinton, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016.

Top Democrat: Trump’s attacks on San Juan mayor done under ‘not so subtle veil of racism and sexism’

Melissa Quinn · September 30, 2017 4:17 pm

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough kept their long-standing feud with President Trump alive on Saturday, taking to Twitter to criticize Trump over his tweets about Puerto Rico and the mayor of San Juan. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough pounce on Trump over Puerto Rico tweets

Mandy Mayfield · September 30, 2017 3:48 pm

After President Trump accused her of "poor leadership" in post-hurricane rescue-and-relief efforts, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz replied saying that anything other than saving lives in Puerto Rico is a distraction. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

San Juan mayor calls for no distractions from saving lives after Trump tweet-attacks her

Daniel Chaitin · September 30, 2017 12:53 pm