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- Trump's push to shrink FEMA May 21, 2025 5:27 pm Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year. President Donald Trump promised North Carolinians he wouldn’t forget them. But recently, Trump's FEMA rejected the state's request for extended relief funding. GuestsGerard Albert III, …
- Morning Update: South Florida’s top stories for Wednesday, May 21, 2025 May 21, 2025 12:32 pm Here are the top stories for Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Get the weather forecast for today here. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Get our free Morning Update email. Sign up here. Dave Hyde: The scary truth — Panthers drub Hurricanes in series opener with ‘C’ game As hurricane …
- CNN’s Climate Con: How Real Estate, Not Storms, Drives Insurance Costs May 21, 2025 11:57 am In a recent article, titled “Why climate risk could affect your credit score for buying a home,” CNN’s Andrew Freedman describes a new report by FirstStreet that claims to show how “climate risk” could impact credit scores and mortgage lending due to an …
- Trump task force told to eliminate FEMA and start over. What might that mean for Louisiana? May 21, 2025 9:29 am WASHINGTON – FEMA needs to be eliminated and reopened under a new name that better reflects a new role in handling disasters, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday to a new presidential task force charged with recommending changes in the …
- FL emergency managers prep for hurricane season amid FEMA uncertainty May 21, 2025 8:36 am As Florida emergency response officials conduct their annual statewide hurricane preparedness exercise this week, emergency managers are grappling with shifting federal disaster recovery policies and uncertainty about the future of the Federal Emergency …
- Waffle House is getting DC fast chargers – and it’s a genius move May 21, 2025 2:21 am By Self-created photograph by Jonathunder - Own work, GFDL, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67877831 Waffle House is about to become a go-to DC fast charging spot for EV drivers, thanks to a new partnership with bp pulse. The EV …
- Leaked memos show troubling shift at disaster agency just weeks before hurricane season begins: 'Kind of bizarre' May 21, 2025 1:58 am Reuters reported in mid-May that the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency had recently made notable cuts to some emergency training just weeks before the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is generally understood to begin. Leaked internal memos …
- As hurricane season nears, DeSantis allays concern about federal disaster agency: ‘We’ve never relied on FEMA’ May 21, 2025 12:15 am Amid signs of turmoil at the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the Atlantic hurricane season is about to begin, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he isn’t concerned because FEMA isn’t really that important at all. Affected individuals and government …