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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 ...

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 ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...