Federal guidelines on masking in the case of a nuclear explosion were not changed this week, said a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday. The guidelines, posted on the Ready.gov website, were shared widely on social media after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said he would raise his country’s nuclear deterrence level,…
Fact Check: US Nuclear Explosion Guidance on Masking Not Recently Changed After Putin Order
Florida Governor Announces State Aid to Tornado Victims
March 1, 2022
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on March 1 he is making $7.1 million available to assist the victims of the Southwest Florida tornadoes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied aid. DeSantis’ government, together with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and local community action agencies in Lee and Charlotte counties, is allocating “funding and…
DeSantis Launches Donation Portal After Biden Admin Denies Aid to Tornado Victims
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Gov. Ron DeSantislaunched a donation portal on Feb. 22 following news that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied southwest Florida tornado victims recovery aid. “We cannot continue waiting on the federal government to provide relief to these Floridians,” DeSantis said in a Feb. 22 press release. “After meeting with survivors last week,…
Biden Announces Increase in Medical Military, COVID Tests
President Joe Biden announced Thursday his administration is deploying additional medical military personnel and buying more COVID-19 tests to try to deal with the latest surge in cases of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. In an address ahead of a meeting with military members and others involved with the federal…
Biden Ups Federal Funds for Kentucky Disaster Relief
President Joe Biden took an aerial tour over parts of Kentucky Wednesday morning to assess storm damage from deadly weekend tornadoes, and later in the day approved the federal government covering the entire cost for cleanup. Over the weekend, Biden approved Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s request for a major disaster declaration, making federal funding available for the…
Biden To Travel to Kentucky to Survey Storm Damage
President Joe Biden is planning to travel to Kentucky Wednesday to assess storm damage in Ft. Campbell, Mayfield, and Dawson Springs. The trip comes in the wake of devastating tornadoes that ripped through the South and parts of the Midwest Friday leaving fatalities across five different U.S. states. At least 64 people were killed in…
Biden FEMA Rejects Texas Governor’s Appeal for Emergency Aid Over Border Surge
October 25, 2021
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The White House rejected Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request that the federal government reimburse the state for millions of dollars on the border crisis, according to a letter sent to his office. “After a thorough review of all the information contained in your initial request and appeal, we reaffirm our original findings that supplemental federal…
‘No Action Is Needed’: FEMA Tests National Emergency Alert System
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tested the U.S. national emergency alert system on Wednesday. The test of both the Emergency Alert System and the Wireless Emergency Alert System, the second of which required people to opt-in on their cellular phones, was carried out at around 2:20 p.m. ET. Not…
Orange County Supervisors Discusses New $7.7 Billion Budget
June 8, 2021
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors on June 8 began public discussions of the county’s newly-recommended $7.7 billion budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. No formal action is set to be taken until the board officially adopts the budget during its June 22 meeting. During the June 8 meeting, the financial blueprint was presented to supervisors and…
Unused Trailers for Homeless Sit Empty in LA
When the state of California gifted the city of Los Angeles 1,300 trailers to house the homeless last year during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak, there was hope that some of the 66,000 people experiencing homelessness in the county would have shelter. But a year later, many trailers are sitting empty and unused in…
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