The new suit alleges the staffing cuts violate laws that restrict DHS's authority to make sweeping overhauls and staff ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will waive some payments mistakenly given to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters, according to the Washington Post. Some of the overpayments to aid ...

FEMA CORE employees make up approximately 40% of FEMA’s workforce and are deployed, as needed, to disaster areas to assist with response and recovery. In 2023, the Government Accountability Office ...

WASHINGTON The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said ...

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Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been warned they’ll face termination if they don’t tattle on who signed an open letter criticizing Kristi Noem and Donald Trump’s disaster ...

WASHINGTON The Bush administration must immediately resume housing payments for thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge said Wednesday, heaping more criticism on the ...