disasters

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Created in 1990, T.P.S. protects immigrants who are unable to return to their home countries because of violence, natural disasters or other great danger.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026

The new reactors also use different technology from conventional plants, ruling out the kind of cascading disasters seen at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and allowing for far simpler, cheaper construction.

From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026

In 1990, Congress authorized this emergency humanitarian relief for non-citizens whose home countries were wracked by armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary disruptions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

A 1990 law lets the Secretary of Homeland Security provide quasi-legal status to migrants if they can’t safely return to their home countries because of armed conflicts, natural disasters, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

We know merely what disasters his mendacity occasioned.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson