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April 28, 2025
Officials say their plans and those of hundreds of communities nationwide supported by the BRIC program have been upended.
August 31, 2017
Texas has a special place in Jamie Foxx's heart...
August 30, 2017
Not good, Best Buy. The tech store entered the struggle zone when someone took a picture of packs of bottled…
August 30, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Charities are stepping up their donation requests in the wake of Harvey, a severe, Category 4…
August 29, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — Crews overwhelmed by thousands of rescue calls during one of the heaviest downpours in U.S. history have…
January 18, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in Superstorm Sandy recovery grants from a New Jersey…
January 12, 2013
OPINION - Three years ago today I was serving in the Florida Senate when a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck…
November 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Romney campaign's decision Tuesday to suddenly change a scheduled victory rally in Ohio into a storm-relief…
October 31, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Republican Iowa Representative Steve King has said he doesn't want to sign off on federal Hurricane Sandy…
September 11, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - By some estimates, the quake left about 33 million cubic yards of debris in Port-au-Prince...
February 9, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to…
January 28, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - A French search team that wouldn't go home pulled off another "miracle" rescue in Port-au-Prince, lifting a…
January 27, 2010
Relief experts say it would be a mistake to send too much direct cash to the Haitian government, which is…
January 27, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE - There is nothing normal about life in Haiti these days...
January 26, 2010
DISPATCH - It will take years before things really return to normal, whatever that means after a crisis like this...
January 25, 2010
OPINION - It's important for people to keep an eye on what's happening in Haiti because Haiti has been neglected…
January 22, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The announcement came hours before Jean was to headline a globally broadcast concert called "Hope for…
January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The move comes as hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain homeless, hungry and desperately in need of…
January 21, 2010
DISPATCH - After reporting on and witnessing first hand the death, destruction and despair that now envelops the country, it's…
January 19, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The most brilliant minds in almost every discipline have tried to get their hands around the problem that…