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Religious groups and churches in New Orleans have played a critical role in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

A federal jury failed to convict any of the former leaders of a Muslim charity charged with financing Middle Eastern terrorists.

For a presidency still haunted by memories of Hurricane Katrina, the forceful round-the-clock response to the California wildfires was a political no-brainer.

Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican congressman from the New Orleans suburbs, inherits a state that was suffering well before Hurricane Katrina.

Three months after FEMA halted the sale of trailers to hurricane survivors over possible formaldehyde risks, none of the 56,000 occupied units have been tested.

Despite the heartbreaking destruction it left behind, Hurricane Katrina created the chance of a fresh start for a majority of the city’s schools, which had been among the nation’s worst.

The offer is directed at the more than 95,000 households still displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Justice Department is investigating ties between Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso R. Jackson and a friend of Mr. Jackson’s who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by him for rebuilding work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.