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

Professional crisis communicators watched the news conferences with dismay. Deflecting blame is not helpful if politicians want to build trust with the public, they say.

The editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper compared the response effort to the debacle that followed Hurricane ...

U.S. President Donald Trump actually sent 700 U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in June 2025 — alongside 4,000 National ...

In early July 2025, a claim began circulating on social media that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent rescue teams to ...

The Homeland Security chief denied that a memo she issued in June requiring her to approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000 ...

President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one ...

The report, citing anonymous sources, suggested FEMA's Texas flood response was delayed as a result of a Trump administration ...

Multiple urban search and rescue teams from across the country that responded to the deadly floods in central Texas told CNN ...

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha was unable to answer direct questions about who was in charge and whether they were asleep ...

In other words, we keep playing a game of chance with forces indifferent to us—until we are finally reminded of the cost of ...

CNN reported that Kristi Noem’s demand to sign off on FEMA decisions held up the sending of a top rescue team.