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.

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, ...