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FEMA to answer questions about Hurricane response in WNC & Florida

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell is scheduled to appear next week before a Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) subcommittee to answer questions about the agency’s preparedness and response to recent disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

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Fired FEMA employee alleges Helene volunteers instructed to avoid Trump homes in WNC

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is accused of telling volunteers to avoid homes not only in Florida that had Trump signs displayed after Hurricane Milton but also allegedly homes with the same Trump signs in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.

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Report: Biden admin uses NC airports to relocate ‘inadmissible aliens’

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) and Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) are among the over 50 airports listed in documents obtained by the House Committee on Homeland Security in which hundreds of thousands of “inadmissible aliens” had flown into through the Biden Administration’s Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) mass-parole program.

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‘No Veteran Left Behind Act’ passes House committee

House Bill 370, No Veteran Left Behind Act, on Tuesday, April 13, cleared the House Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. The bill, which heads to the Appropriations committee, is designed to help improve how local law enforcement and first responders assist and respond to veterans in crisis. “The No Veteran Left Behind Act...

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Crossover hasn’t calmed concerns about wind power’s effects on military

The controversy over the possible impact of wind energy turbines on military base operations has not blown over, even though none of the relevant bills met the April 27 legislative crossover deadline. Concerns exist that the towering wind turbines could disrupt radar operations and interfere with training and flight paths at the state’s air bases....

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Amnesty Head-Off Attempt Fails

RALEIGH — Efforts recently by U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and several Republican members of Congress to urge the Senate to resist attempts to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants were unsuccessful, judging from proposed legislation agreed on by leaders in the Senate last week.

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