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It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, submerged a major American city, killed nearly 1,400 people, and displaced 1 million more. Two decades is a long enough period ...

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Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Current and former FEMA employees sent a letter to Congress telling them that sweeping changes made by the Trump administration may affect their ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane ...

"The undisputed facts support multiple factors contributed to Magnitude 7’s decision to curtail operations. Under these circumstances, the court finds that the closing of the Marston plant was an ...

President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are each the type of foe the other loves to hate. On one level, their escalating showdown over the president’s threat to send the National Guard ...

In recent decades, debates over gun violence have followed a predictable pattern. There’s a mass shooting or a spike in crime (either perceived or real). Progressives push for stricter gun laws, while ...

38th Ward Alderman Nicholas Sposato joins Lisa Dent to discuss President Trump’s plan to send the National Guard to Chicago. Ald. Sposato calls that an “idle threat” he doesn’t believe will become ...

Illinois political leaders and Chicago municipal officials are raising alarms over President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy National Guard troops to the city, insisting that sending in soldiers would ...