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Record numbers of illegal immigrants who cross into the US from Mexico have died in the scorching heat of the Arizona desert in the past year....

While President Bush joked and strummed a guitar, Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to low-income African American communities in Mississippi and Louisiana. With state National Guard members dispatched to Iraq, much of the burden of reducing the human misery will fall upon relief agencies, most prominently the American Red Cross. Unfortunately, as San Franciscans learned after the 1989 earthquake, the Red Cross feels no obligation to spend money raised from a particular tragedy for the pu...

NEW ORLEANS — Fights and trash fires broke out, rescue helicopters were shot at and anger mounted across New Orleans on Thursday, as National Guardsmen poured in to help restore order across this increasingly desperate and lawless city....

Mind you, this is 4 days into this disaster, and still thousands are barely surviving without major help from the federal governement. Some aren't surviving....

How New Orleans Was Lost by Paul Craig Roberts Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting....

The Department of Homeland Security is spending billions on domestic spying and counter terrorism – is disaster relief getting sidelined? We look at the first major test of the massive homeland security bureaucracy with Matthew Brzezinski, author of “Fortress America.”...

We go to New Orleans and Law Professor Bill Quigley who is trapped in Memorial Hospital with hundreds of other people. There is no water or electricity in the hospital and relief efforts have yet to reach them....

There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn’t the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why weren’t the levees maintained? Why were so many people left to fend for themselves?...

Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles has withdrawn his application for asylum in the United States at a court hearing....

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered nearly the entire active police force in the flood-ravaged city to abandon rescue operations Wednesday night and focus on efforts to halt looting. The decision came in response to mounting pressure from sensationalized media coverage which is increasingly placing emphasis on the property damage done by looters, suggesting that it has become nearly as significant a social problem as the virtual destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina....