David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is leaving his post, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Monday. Richardson submitted his resignation Monday morning, according to five current and former homeland security officials familiar with the decision. He served as FEMA's "Senior Official Performing the Duties" of administrator since May 8, 2025, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly removed his predecessor, Cameron Hamilton. Before leading FEMA, Richardson was Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office. Richardson's resignation comes amid mounting criticism over FEMA's response to the devastating Ccentral Texas floods in July, which claimed more than 130 lives, including 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River.
An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House's plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities. read more
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SB&D is reporting that economic development project activity in the American South, the world's third largest economy, is at the lowest mid-year point of any year since the SB&D 100 ranking was established in 1994. Deal activity in the region so far in 2025 is slower than any period during the COVID years of 2020 and 2021, as well as all years during the Great Recession from 2007-2010. (See data and 30-plus year history of the SB&D 100 below.) These numbers are also worse than any recession I have covered since 1983. So, in short, the worst we have ever seen, even if technically the U.S. is not in recession. And if deals are cratering like this in the South, the most desired economic development region in North America, then they are much worse in the Midwest, West and the Northeast. SB&D does not cover economic development in those U.S. regions.
Putin's putrid orange butt slut has no problem sending $40 billion to Argentina.