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Nancy Galarza looks at the damage that Hurricane Fiona inflicted on her community, which remained cut off four days after the Category 1 storm slammed the rural community of San Salvador in the town of Caguas, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Ricans seething over lack of power days after Fiona

Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell, right, listens as President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the FEMA Region 2 office in New York, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden pledges not to ‘walk away’ from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona

A woman looks at her water-damaged belongings after flooding caused by Hurricane Fiona tore through her home in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Stephanie Rojas)

Fiona strengthens into Category 4 storm, heads to Bermuda

A man walks on a road flooded by Hurricane Fiona in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Stephanie Rojas)

Fiona nears Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Fiona in the Caribbean on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. The eye of newly formed Hurricane Fiona is near the coast of Puerto Rico — and it has already sparked an island-wide blackout and threatens to dump “historic” levels of rain. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Fiona makes landfall in powerless Puerto Rico

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Fiona in the Caribbean on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. (NOAA via AP)

Puerto Rico under hurricane warning as TS Fiona approaches

In this May 21, 2020 file photo, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced talks with her secretary of public affairs Osvaldo Soto during a press conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Official: Ex Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez arrested

Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin signs autographs in Mexico City, April 5, 2011. A Puerto Rico court has “archived” a restraining order issued against the superstar, meaning the case is closed, a judicial spokesperson said Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Court closes restraining order case against Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Elvis' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Ricky Martin denies allegations that led to restraining order: ‘Completely false’

FILE - Jose Luis Gonzalez walks through a ravine known as "La Raja de Rosa," where people from Barrio Patron get their water supply in Morovis, Puerto Rico, Dec. 22, 2017, three months after Hurricane Maria hit. Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company was hit by a federal lawsuit on June 2, 2022, demanding that it provide services to residents who lack potable water on a daily basis. The lawsuit was filed by the mayor of Morovis who said daily interruptions in water service have been a problem that grew worse after Hurricane Maria razed the electric grid. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

Puerto Ricans speak out on U.S. territory’s political status

FILE - The Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico's Capitol as in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 29, 2015. A group of Democratic congress members, including the House majority leader, on Thursday, May 19, 2022, proposed a binding plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a state or gain some sort of independence. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

U.S. lawmakers urge binding vote on Puerto Rico status

FILE - North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg listens during a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee meeting at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Jan. 7, 2009. Holmberg, a North Dakota state senator who is resigning following a report about text messages he exchanged with an inmate ran up travel expenses the past decade that are more than 14 times what lawmakers bill state taxpayers on average, according to a review by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)

Resigning North Dakota senator led lawmakers in travel costs

In this photo obtained from U.S. federal court records, Jeffri Dávila-Reyes, third from left, and two others hold their hands in the air as they are intercepted in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 29, 2015. Dávila-Reyes says he’s still mystified how he ended up serving hard time in a U.S. federal prison. His cocaine bust at sea was closer to his homeland of Costa Rica than the United States, and the few kilos of drugs he was carrying were bound for Jamaica rather than American shores. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Ruling threatens U.S. power as world’s high-seas drug police

An American flag blows in the wind in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Supreme Court upholds Puerto Ricans’ exclusion from benefits program

Traffic lights are out of service on a street in San Juan, Puerto Rico, early Thursday, April 7, 2022. More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Major outage forces Puerto Rico to shutter schools, offices

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Puerto Rico Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez answers questions to reporters before giving a press conference, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2018. Federal and local authorities in Puerto Rico say they will implement "broken windows" policing to fight a surge in killings this month across the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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Neither Luma nor Puerto Rico’s power generating utility have said when electricity will be restored to the most affected areas.

Puerto Ricans seething over lack of power days after Fiona →

Rabell-Gonzalez, who spoke to the AP from his native Puerto Rico on Tuesday, said he is continuing to lead the congregation under a new name, Iglesia Luterana Santa Maria Peregrina, at the First Congregational Church in Stockton.

Rev. Megan Rohrer, transgender Lutheran bishop, resigns over racism allegations →

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