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This June 18, 2018 photo shows an aerial view of the Amelia neighborhood in the municipality of Catano, east of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thousands of people across Puerto Rico are still living in damaged homes, protected by blue plastic tarps, nine months since Hurricane Maria devastated the island. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera) XPR302 XPR302

Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms

Two months into a new hurricane season, thousands of homes across Puerto Rico still have blue tarps or other plastic coverings on damaged roofs. Many people lack resources to rebuild and do not qualify for assistance, or not enough to cover Hurricane Maria’s damage.  VIEW

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James Hansen sits for a portrait in his home in New York on April 12, 2018. NASA?s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzel) NY951 NY951
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Paula Chavez, a teacher at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas, May 4, 2018. Chavez said she voted for President Donald Trump but questioned his administration?s approach to prison staffing. ?By weakening prisons,? she said of the president, ?he is weakening the border.? (Julia Robinson/The New York Times) XNYT22 XNYT22
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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who’ve been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP) NYHK702 NYHK702

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FILE – In this April 10, 2018, file frame from video, a National Guardsman watches over Rio Grande River on the border in Roma, Texas. The governors of multiple East Coast states have announced that they will not deploy National Guard resources near the U.S.-Mexico border, a largely symbolic but politically significant rejection of the Trump administration?s ?zero-tolerance? immigration policy that has resulted in children being separated from their families. (AP Photo/John Mone, File) NYSB267 NYSB267

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Mansara Nepali sits near her family’s chhaupadi hut, where women are banished when they get their menstrual periods, in the village of Padi, Nepal, March 5, 2018. The Nepali government and advocates for women are trying to end the practice that leaves at least one woman or girl dead each year. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/The New York Times)

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University of Hawaii geology professor Michael Garcia shows a piece of olivine embedded in a chunk of lava from a prehistoric eruption of Kilauea volcano in his office in Honolulu on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Olivine is a common mineral in Hawaiian lava, but the olivine from a current Kilauea eruption is much smaller and harder to extract. The ongoing eruption is not causing crystals to rain from the sky despite reports of residents finding little green gems in the area. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher) OC212 OC212

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