The Homeland Security chief denied that a memo she issued in June requiring her to approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000 caused the agency to move more slowly.

Following last year’s record-breaking wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, which exposed serious flaws in the state’s emergency response system, lawmakers had a chance to act. But after this week’s historic flooding,

The destructive fast-moving waters that began before sunrise Friday in the Texas Hill Country killed at least 43 people in Kerr County, authorities said Saturday, and an unknown number of people