Candidates promise more for New Orleans
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Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on Monday bemoaned the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina as they called for ways to spur the recovery of New Orleans two years after the devastating storm.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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Campaign events for Sens. Clinton and Obama bring out some of the area's top political leaders.
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President Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow two years ago by celebrating those he says have "dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans" even as he and others are criticized for not doing more to get the city and Gulf Coast back to their former selves.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue toured the hurricane-damaged Superdome on Tuesday with Saints owner Tom Benson and Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and was encouraged with the progress that has been made.
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They gave Greg Porter the key to the city for his volunteer work after Hurricane Katrina. Then, he says, they showed him the door.
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PARIS Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is hoping to improve relations between the U-S and France.
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White House hopefuls looked Sunday to their next nominating contests, with little time for Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton to savor their key weekend wins.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more of the Americans without health insurance.
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With New Orleans still waiting for an infusion of federal cash and a rebuilding plan, the mercurial reelected  mayor has   his work cut out for him.
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New Orleans plans a new &#36;700  million jazz district and central park, aiming to use the  devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to  rebuild the damaged core of the city.
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Democrat Barack Obama hoped to extend his winning streak over Hillary Clinton in their bruising Democratic presidential race when voters made their choices in three  battlegrounds around the U.S. capital on Tuesday.
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Desperate New Orleans-area officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their storm-stricken city.
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President Bush, hoping to build on recent momentum in the White House race, delivers the biggest speech of his campaign on Thursday in the city where the Sept.
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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans may have half the population it did before Hurricane Katrina, but the cash-strapped city still loves a party. To help pay for Mardi Gras, it's trying a new money source: text-messaged donations.
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Mayor Ray Nagin told a Senate committee Monday that the rebuilding of New Orleans is getting shortchanged in light of the billions poured into the war in Iraq, and he suggested racism is part of the explanation.