Caribbean

As Puerto Rico continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, some Ohio State University students have mobilized to help.The Puerto Rican…

Barbuda was the first place Hurricane Irma made landfall as the Category 5 storm devastated a string of islands along the Caribbean earlier this month.

"We are without power, the whole island is without power," Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico's resident commissioner, tells NPR.

Irma's earliest American victims fear they will be forgotten by the mainland. Largely reduced to wreckage, the U.S. territory is now struggling to pick up the pieces.