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House ethics panel tells Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to pay more for Met Gala attendance
The House Ethics Committee is telling Rep_ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to make additional payments for her attendance at the ...
Texas Republicans won’t say it, but climate change is on the special session agenda
Climate change isn’t mentioned in Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda, and yet it can be found throughout. As ...
Texas GOP won’t say it, but climate change is on special session agenda | Editorial
Here is the central issue as the Texas Legislature deliberates: Republican lawmakers, so loath to utter the words “climate ...
Texas sheriff makes shocking admission about response to floods that killed 136 people
A Kerr County sheriff has made a shocking admission about who is to blame for the lives lost in the deadly flooding that ...
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'Gross negligence': Official in charge of coordinating TX flood response was 'likely asleep'
On Wednesday, July 23, ABC News reported that the death toll from the flooding that ravaged areas of Central Texas during the ...
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Delays and dysfunction: How Trump’s FEMA overhaul failed Texas flood victims
As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the ...
Leaders of Texas town hit by floods frustrated over lack of answers from top emergency official
Ingram officials have been waiting to hear from Kerr County’s emergency management coordinator after feeling as if they were ...
Poor coordination hampered flood response, Texas official tells lawmakers
Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management and representatives from the Upper Guadalupe River Authority ...
Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff says
Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the ...
FEMA moved quickly to help Texas. These other states waited months.
Several states and two Native American tribes waited months for disaster aid, while hundreds of requests for critical ...
FEMA chief ‘can’t see anything that we did wrong’ in Texas flood response
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting leader David Richardson defended the federal government’s response to flooding in Texas earlier this month.