Bitcoin surged past $100,000 in early December as investors and boosters salivated. They likely envisioned a friendlier regulatory environment under President Donald Trump, who declared in an August ...

Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Management Agency help for disasters since 2011. But disaster aid — for decades a ...

The number of people reported missing after natural disasters often starts out shockingly high. But as communication systems are restored and records reconciled, those numbers typically drop ...