Aon's Global Catastrophe Recap report reveals that a series of major wildfires burned across Northern and Southern California throughout the month; the most catastrophic, the Camp Fire in Butte County, largely destroyed the city of Paradise, killing 88 people with dozens of others unaccounted for.

About two-thirds of American adults (68%) say they at least occasionally get news on social media, about the same share as at this time in 2017, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%).

U.S. war operations around the world for terrorism have cost more than $5.9 trillion since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a study by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Airbnb has released a new report detailing business travel trends that have been on the rise in 2018, and are set to continue in 2019.

According to the 2018 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), deaths from terrorism fell for the third consecutive year, after peaking in 2014. 

More than 8 in 10 (82 percent) business travelers think it is important for their safety for their company to know their travel plans in advance, yet less than half (47 percent) say their organization has a system in place to capture their travel plans if they book outside of corporate channels.

According to Swiss Re Institute's preliminary estimates, global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the first half of 2018 were $36 billion.

FEMA and its partners released the 2018 National Preparedness Report that summarizes the nation's progress toward becoming a more secure and resilient nation.

A group of British politicians want companies to pull advertising from firms that fail to tackle terrorism.