As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

That's above the annual average of 14 named storms, partly a result, NOAA officials say, of higher ocean temperatures and lower trade winds. Yet disaster preparation efforts have been thrown into ...

Acting FEMA Administrator Richardson hosts a meeting with agency leadership in preparation for hurricane season, May 12, 2025, in Washington, DC.

It just slows down the entire response and delays the recovery process from starting,” the previous FEMA chief said.

The Trump administration is weakening FEMA's ability to respond to disasters and refusing to provide federal funding for ...

Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The ...

The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. The U.S. hurricane season ...

On June 2, acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator David Richardson made headlines, first reported by Reuters, for telling staff in a daily briefing that he had been unaware the U ...

David Richardson, who has no previous disaster management experience, told an all-hands meeting at the nation’s main disaster response agency Monday that he had no idea that there was a ...

President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly floated the idea of terminating the emergency disaster agency.