The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday opened applications for a major resilience grant program that the agency canceled last year, less than three weeks after a federal judge ordered FEMA to make the funding available. FEMA will make $1 billion available for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helps states, local governments, … Read more
An Underground Railroad museum in upstate New York alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated its federal grant on the basis of race, pointing to President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle diversity-focused initiatives. The Underground Railroad Education Center, located in Albany N.Y., alleges in its lawsuit that the National Endowment for … Read more
Oliver “Power” Grant, an original member of the seminal early 1990s hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan, has died, the New York City-based group said Wednesday. Grant was 52. “Rest in Power, Power,” the group said in an X post on Wednesday. Hot 97, an iconic New York radio station that played a notable role in … Read more