Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) participated in the first meeting of a new ...

The Department of Homeland Security secretary defended the federal government's response and denied that policy changes ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Cuts made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Trump administration severely impaired its ability to respond ...

Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.

Rachel Maddow drew parallels Monday between the Trump administration's response to Texas' flooding and George W. Bush's to Hurricane Katrina.

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