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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of refugees lined up under the hot sun for payments from the American Red Cross on Thursday in a confused atmosphere that prompted officials to close off access to the Astrodome complex at one point....

Despite the sadness in our hearts over the death of Joseph Maldonado in the Chad youth prison last week, we write to you with news of our successful “No More Lost Lives” event, and three important action steps you can take today to make a real difference for families of incarcerated youth across the country. -- Lenore....

CHALMETTE, Louisana (AP) -- The cars were swallowed, the homes shattered and the people left clinging for life. Survivors waited for help, but it seemed like so little, so late....

While international donations have been pouring in for victims of hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has been somewhat reluctant to accept offers from countries like Cuba and Venezuela. We speak with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies about international donations and how essential resources have been stretched thin by the war in Iraq. International donations have been pouring in for victims of hurricane Katrina. Countries across the political and economic spectrum hav...

As Republican leaders announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the response to Hurricane Katrina, we take a look at why FEMA failed with Salon.com staff writer Farhad Manjoo who writes, "Ideologically opposed to a strong federal role in disaster relief and obsessed with terrorism, the Bush administration let a once-admired agency fall apart." In Washington, Republican leaders on Wednesday announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the re...

While the US Gestapo, FEMA, illegally attempts to thwart photography of the dead of New Orleans, photos are being taken and published around the world of the genocide perpetrated by the US Government, with malice aforethought....

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans with a double blow when it made landfall Aug. 29. First, storm surge waters from the east rapidly swamped St. Bernard Parish and eastern New Orleans before the eye of the storm had passed the city around 9 a.m. Within hours, surge waters collapsed city canal floodwalls and began to “fill the bowl,” while top officials continued to operate for a full day under the mistaken belief that the danger had passed....

Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week. Firefighters in Atlanta, who are search-and-rescue certified, paramedics, haz-mat certified, assembled from throughout the United States, have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA. FEMA has warned them not to talk to reporters. Firefighters say they want to brave the heat, the debris-littered roads, the poisonous cotto...