After deadly flooding killed more than 100 people in Texas’ Hill Country last July, officials promised major changes in hopes of preventing the failures that contributed to the high death toll. They promised better flood warning systems, stricter safety standards for children’s camps and improvements to the state’s water infrastructure. That work was far from
Another thing people forget to do until the Internet no longer works? Download emergency phone applications. As of October 2025, FEMA has an application. Your local municipal or state government likely has emergency push notifications enabled as well. Consider signing up. WIRED has also cataloged other personal safety apps, including a subscription service called Rescu
The former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator is among 32 people found guilty over the August 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge in a trial. Giovanni Castellucci, already serving a six-year prison sentence for a 2013 road disaster, received a 12-year sentence for the disaster. Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the
The former director of Italy’s motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa in August 2018. Prosecutors had asked for a much longer prison sentence for the former head of Autostrade per l’Italia, Giovanni Castellucci. Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the
The families of the victims ask for answers after so many years of uncertainty. Egle Possetti, who also represents the committee of victims’ relatives, says she and other relatives of the deceased hope that responsibility will be clearly determined. “For many years, lawyers told us that what happened was no one’s fault, that it was
Sun Valley, the so-called summer camp for billionaires, begins this week in Idaho, and while it’s unfair to blame the conference for all the problems plaguing the media business, it’s not a bad place to start. Organized by investment bank Allen & Co., the off-the-record scheme is famous for generating some of the most historic