In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse. The court system collapsed in the aftermath of the storm.Katrina caused ...

In Africa's most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation's crumbling power grid cannot rely on it. And the situation isn't ...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, ...

Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Etta Pitt, née Hillhouse, has died at the age of 84. The Pitt matriarch’s granddaughter Sydney Pitt ...

New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to salvage court records that the city erroneously discarded. As photos surfaced ...

The deadly crash of a medical transport plane on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona has left the medical community in New ...