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President Trump Mulls Letting US States Handle Own Disasters
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated ending federal disaster relief and leaving states to fend for themselves during emergencies in his first Oval Office interview since returning to power.
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Hurricane Matthew Tests US Response Lessons From Katrina
Acting on lessons learned from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, government authorities this week rushed to get aid to states in Hurricane Matthew's path, from drinking water and generators to helicopters and emergency planning experts.
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Barack Obama Says US Government Prepared To Respond To Hurricane Matthew
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the US government has teams and supplies positioned to respond to Hurricane Matthew as the storm barrels toward Florida and other southeastern states.
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Mobile Homes Returning To Louisiana After Deadly Flooding
Mobile homes will fill front yards across southern Louisiana again, just like after Hurricane Katrina, as federal authorities bring in temporary housing for thousands of people displaced by catastrophic flooding.
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Barack Obama Declares Emergency Over Foul Water In Michigan
US President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Michigan on Saturday, freeing up federal aid to help an area affected by contaminated water, the White House said.
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Wildfires Force New Evacuation Orders in Washington State
Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington state as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions.
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'Congress Did It Too' Is a Lame Excuse, Kejriwal
"But the Congress did the same" as a justification for all their own wrongdoings unites both the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi and the Narendra Modi-led government at the centre.
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Ford Foundation Likely to Get Relief: Sources
The Indian arm of Ford Foundation, facing government scrutiny over alleged irregularities, is likely to get relief as it is ready to come under Indian laws even as the Home Ministry is considering its request for release of funds for paying its staffers' salaries.
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Enforcement Directorate to Slap Penalty Notices in 16 Cases Against Lalit Modi, Others
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is in the process of serving final penalty notices in 16 alleged forex violation cases amounting to an estimated Rs 1,700 crore against former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi and others as part of its wide-ranging probe in the alleged financial irregularities in various editions of the T-20 cricket extravaganza.
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Nearly Half of Americans Threatened by Earthquakes
Nearly half of Americans - 150 million people - are threatened by possibly damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have warned.
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Hurricane Irene approaches US East Coast
Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina on Thursday as Irene approached, threatening to become the first major hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years.
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President Trump Mulls Letting US States Handle Own Disasters
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated ending federal disaster relief and leaving states to fend for themselves during emergencies in his first Oval Office interview since returning to power.
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Hurricane Matthew Tests US Response Lessons From Katrina
Acting on lessons learned from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, government authorities this week rushed to get aid to states in Hurricane Matthew's path, from drinking water and generators to helicopters and emergency planning experts.
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Barack Obama Says US Government Prepared To Respond To Hurricane Matthew
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the US government has teams and supplies positioned to respond to Hurricane Matthew as the storm barrels toward Florida and other southeastern states.
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Mobile Homes Returning To Louisiana After Deadly Flooding
Mobile homes will fill front yards across southern Louisiana again, just like after Hurricane Katrina, as federal authorities bring in temporary housing for thousands of people displaced by catastrophic flooding.
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Barack Obama Declares Emergency Over Foul Water In Michigan
US President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Michigan on Saturday, freeing up federal aid to help an area affected by contaminated water, the White House said.
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Wildfires Force New Evacuation Orders in Washington State
Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington state as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions.
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'Congress Did It Too' Is a Lame Excuse, Kejriwal
"But the Congress did the same" as a justification for all their own wrongdoings unites both the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi and the Narendra Modi-led government at the centre.
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Ford Foundation Likely to Get Relief: Sources
The Indian arm of Ford Foundation, facing government scrutiny over alleged irregularities, is likely to get relief as it is ready to come under Indian laws even as the Home Ministry is considering its request for release of funds for paying its staffers' salaries.
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Enforcement Directorate to Slap Penalty Notices in 16 Cases Against Lalit Modi, Others
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is in the process of serving final penalty notices in 16 alleged forex violation cases amounting to an estimated Rs 1,700 crore against former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi and others as part of its wide-ranging probe in the alleged financial irregularities in various editions of the T-20 cricket extravaganza.
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Nearly Half of Americans Threatened by Earthquakes
Nearly half of Americans - 150 million people - are threatened by possibly damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have warned.
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Hurricane Irene approaches US East Coast
Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina on Thursday as Irene approached, threatening to become the first major hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years.
