Areas of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Federal disaster aid following these events was thousands of times greater than the reserve funds of Louisiana ...
Just over two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene left swaths of Florida's gulf coast and regions of other southeastern states underwater and without power and took hundreds of lives. Now, another major storm ...
WASHINGTON — Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after last week’s scramble to find consensus on a government ...
THE SCENES of devastation in Los Angeles were just the latest in a recent barrage. Last year hurricanes in the Atlantic, earthquakes in Japan and flooding in Europe all carried huge financial and ...