NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to former FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about how the Department of Homeland Security shutdown will affect operations at the disaster relief agency. OK. Let's look at one ...

Potential disaster was narrowly averted when an intruder wandered across a high-security RAF base and forced air traffic controllers to urgently abort the take-off of six fighter jets, it has been ...

After months of back and forth between Illinois officials and the federal government, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has officially rejected the state's request for disaster relief funding ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — How do you fix what is being called the largest sewage spill in the region’s history? That was the multi-million-dollar question facing Maryland lawmakers on Friday as they convened a ...

The Trump administration is undertaking the biggest overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in a generation. President Trump has been a vocal critic of the disaster response agency ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday. By Scott Dance Maxine Joselow and Eric Niiler ...

President Donald Trump on Monday accused Maryland officials of presiding over a “massive Ecological Disaster” after a sewer line breach last month sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the ...

WASHINGTON—The House failed to pass a sweeping air-safety bill Tuesday, a measure that was backed by families of victims in last year’s deadly midair collision near the nation’s capital, after late ...

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last ...