Sources reported that around 300 disaster workers were let go at the start of the new year, with only a handful receiving extensions.
by ALEXX ALTMAN-DEVILBISS | The National News DeskA Nashville Department of Transportation truck applies salt brine to a roadway Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. ahead of a winter storm expected to hit the state over the weekend.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency informed staff on Thursday that disaster worker terminations would be halted due to the massivethat it would "cease offboarding" for disaster workers whose employment contracts are set to expire in the coming days. It was not specified how long the pauses would last.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, visited the agency's headquarters ahead of the storm to receive a briefing on preparations. "DHS, FEMA, CISA, USCG, and our other federal partners are closely monitoring conditions and coordinating with state and local partners to ensure readiness," Noem. "Governors remain in the lead, and we stand ready to support. Every American in the path of this storm should take steps to prepare and protect themselves from the elements." said the "long-duration winter storm" will bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the central and eastern U.S. this weekend and into early next week. Frigid temperatures, gusty winds, and dangerous wind chills will expand from the north-central U.S. to the Southern Plains, MS Valley, and Midwest, according to the agency. “FEMA is on the ground and leaning forward, proactively supporting states in the path of this winter storm to ensure a rapid and well-coordinated response. Disasters are best when locally execute, state managed and federally supported, a role we take seriously," FEMA wrote in an internal document seen by CNN. The National Response Coordination Center has also been activated and response teams and resources have been deployed to Texas, Virginia, Georgia and Pennsylvania.An earthquake early Thursday morning near the Utah-Wyoming border was felt as far as the Wasatch Front.According to the United State Geological Survey, prelimiA Colombian man belonging to a protected class was detained by ICE while leaving immigration court. His case had been dismissed minutes before his detention, anA Utah mother shared her story for the first time since the man who kidnapped and abused her and her children was sentenced to decades in prison.David Remley —A family is grieving after their husband and father was hit and killed by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper more than two weeks ago.The trooper struck Jack WilcoxonWashington County officials advised drivers to expect the first stages of constructing the Northern Corridor Highway in the next few weeks.“We hope to get out o
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