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FEMA workers who sounded alarm over disaster preparedness reinstated

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address staffing issues that triggered concern and uncertainty among and about its workforce, including reinstating employees put on leave for publicly opposing agency policies, and extending contracts for some workers whose terms were set to ...

Trump gives go-ahead to major new Canada-US oil pipeline

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — President Donald Trump granted a key approval Thursday for a major new oil pipeline from Canada into the U.S. that's been dubbed "Keystone Light" over its similarities to a contentious project blocked by the Biden administration. The three-foot-wide (1 meter) Bridger ...

Trump signs bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, ending record shutdown

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in ...

The pastor of the nation’s largest Methodist church is running for the US Senate in Kansas

LENEXA — The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. launched a campaign Thursday for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas, upending the race in a normally Republican state as the GOP's small majority seems less secure than it was a year ago. The Rev. ...

House takes step toward funding Homeland Security

WASHINGTON — The House took a crucial step Wednesday toward funding the Department of Homeland Security, as the Trump administration warned that money to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel will "soon run out," sparking new threats of airport disruptions and ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla honor 9/11 victims on visit to New York

NEW YORK — King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, met with schoolchildren and business titans and socialized with celebrities during a busy swing through New York City on Wednesday — the first visit to the city by a reigning British monarch in 16 ...