The Federal Disaster Relief Act of 1950 gave the president the power to provide federal assistance when requested by a state’s governor, laying the foundation for the modern federal-state ...

In early April, President Donald Trump approved millions of dollars in assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Virginia, which was reeling from devastating winter storms and ...

In early April, President Donald Trump approved millions of dollars in assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Virginia, which was reeling from devastating winter storms and ...

Judge rules Trump’s deportations to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act were illegal But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg stopped short of ordering the administration to seek the men’s return.

The act established the federal minimum wage (which was 25 cents an hour in 1938, and has been $7.25 an hour since 2009), a 44-hour work week (which was reduced to the current 40 hours in 1940 ...

A federal appeals court has preserved President Donald Trump’s ability to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, blocking for at least a few days a judge’s order that found the call-up ...

The Flooded Future of Disaster Labor Day laborers, a workforce threatened by Trump, are key to rebuilding after disasters. Sarah Jaffe June 4, 2025 ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Doctors for America — represented by Democracy Forward, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee, and the National Women’s Law Center — is taking legal action to ...

More info: Gov. Whitmer declares state of emergency following May 15 severe weather; With federal relief unlikely, Rex anticipates it will take several years for her campground to recover financially.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it created an emergency ...