While America was busy with stock buybacks and quarterly profits, China spent decades building an integrated system linking ...

More than 620,000 individuals are seeking £36 billion in compensation for damages caused by a deluge of deadly sludge that ...

Officials in Prichard, Alabama, where more than 30% of residents live in poverty, are counting on federal grants, including ...

The hard reality is that even when you live in a federally declared disaster area — like those ravaged by wildfires in Los Angeles County or battered by hurricanes in North Carolina and other ...

Trump raised the idea of shuttering FEMA during a trip on Friday to disaster areas in North Carolina and California, vowing to sign an executive order to overhaul or eliminate the agency.

Jan 26 (Reuters) - The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response ...

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There are plans to build a magnificent, multi-billion dollar mega-dam on the Congo River - one that would produce enough renewable electricity to power vast areas of Africa. The structure would be ...

Watch: Border 2 Fire in San Diego burns nearly 5,000 acres President Donald Trump travelled to California on Friday to survey the destruction from deadly wildfires that devastated several ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at ...