A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged.
Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of “500,000 people for a […]

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he wants to share his country’s oil wealth with every nation in South America, in a move that aims to strengthen alliances in the region on the back of surging energy prices.
Chavez, a close ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, said his country has enough resources to help the region for […]

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats on Thursday demanded that former Education Secretary William Bennett apologize for remarks on his radio program linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.
Bennett responded that the comments, made Wednesday on his “Morning in America” show, had been mischaracterized and that his point was that […]

Finally agreeing to testify, New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s grand jury appearance throws a damaging spotlight once again on a White House whose credibility has been undermined in the criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity.
Freed after 85 days in a federal detention center, Miller […]

Iraqis expressed fury on Wednesday over the three-year jail sentence for Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, saying it exposed American hypocrisy.
They said the sentence would have been more harsh had she been convicted of abusing Americans.
“America should be ashamed of this sentence. […]

Saying the United States “does not surrender to blackmail,” a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq […]

Saying the United States “does not surrender to blackmail,” a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq […]

Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing the House majority leader to temporarily relinquish his post. A defiant DeLay insisted he was innocent and called the prosecutor a “fanatic.””I have done nothing wrong … I am innocent,”…{{link http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/us_congress MORE}}
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas - Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm’s sweltering victims are still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief…{{link http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/tropical_storms_and_hurricanes MORE}}

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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco will appear before a Senate panel this morning, but she’s already come out swinging against former FEMA head Michael Brown.
Blanco takes strong exception to a charge by Brown that she waited until the eve of the storm to order an evacuation of New Orleans. She says Brown’s comment clearly demonstrates what […]