Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer ...

In his quest to make the U.S. government more efficient and agile, President Trump may eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency and channel federal disaster relief to and through ...

Explainer-What Is FEMA, US Emergency Agency Under Fire From Trump? WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency ...

Trump said the agency, which employs more than 20,000 people across the US, was "very bureaucratic" and "very slow." ...

Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts. Increasingly frequent weather disasters have strained its workforce and drained its ...

FEMA was created in 1979 by an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. The federal agency has over 20,000 employees and is responsible for coordinating responses to disasters in the U.S ...

A test of the U.S. Emergency Alert System interrupted radios and televisions across the United States on Wednesday, excluding cellphones that were sent a presidential alert last year. The U.S ...

He blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been the point agency for federal disaster response since its creation during the Carter administration. “The Democrats don’t care ...

President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is set to face a reckoning following four years under the Biden administration, arguing the ...

Since Hurricane Katrina, when the federal response was severely criticized, FEMA has been led by disaster management professionals who have run state or local emergency management agencies ...