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Since 2011, more than $68.2 billion in FEMA aid has been spent on disasters that don’t include the pandemic or oil spills. Red states with 42.7% of the population have 56.6% of the number of federally ...

Iowa was among 33 states awarded additional USDA disaster assistance Wednesday to help restore lands damaged by widespread natural disasters in 2011. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced ...

TOKYO (AP) — On his 66th birthday, Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed his ongoing concern for survivors of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. His comments, released Monday, come just ...

UNITED NATIONS - The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history - with a price tag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said ...

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this kind occurring in their country. A recent survey ...