Obama: U.S. can't fail New Orleans again
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Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the country cannot fail New Orleans again and that as president, he would keep the city in mind every day.
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Federal emergency officials claim the New Orleans levee system is ready for another major hurricane, despite the less-optimistic views of other political leaders and engineers.
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New Orleans residents depressed by the city's slow rebound 15 months after Hurricane Katrina have a chance to pick a new voice in Washington on Saturday but their frustration is likely to keep many from the voting booth.
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Sen. Barack Obama defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in caucuses in Nebraska and led in Washington on Saturday night, hoping to chip away at her delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The two rivals also contested a Louisiana primary.
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Large parts of New Orleans are still at risk of flooding nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina, a US Army report says.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday declared "better days" ahead for New Orleans despite complaints over slow rebuilding and amid lingering political fallout two years after Hurricane Katrina's destruction.
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Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn't rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was unlikely.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama contends that former President Clinton can lead the nation on the first day but Clinton's wife &#151; and Obama's chief rival &#151; cannot.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Democrat Barack Obama sounded very much like a 2008 White House candidate on his first visit to the presidential proving grounds of New Hampshire on Sunday, firing up local activists and calling for a new "sense of hope" in U.S. politics.
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National Basketball Association players union chief Billy Hunter expressed concern that New Orleans has not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to host the 2008 NBA All-Star Game.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin vowed   never again to call the World Trade Center site a "hole in the   ground" during a visit to New York on Friday to let investors   know his hurricane-devastated city is reopen for business.
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New Orleans is still at risk of serious flooding two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, a government report has found.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a sizable hurricane this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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Ridiculing it as &quot;a silly question,&quot; Democrat Barack Obama pledged Wednesday he would resist any overtures to run for president or vice president before the end of his six-year term as a US senator.
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Democrat Barack Obama hoped to extend his winning streak over Hillary Clinton in their bruising Democratic presidential race when voters made their choices in three  battlegrounds around the U.S. capital on Tuesday.
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Presidential contender Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed his Democratic rivals' change of heart on the Iraq war as too little too late, while Hillary Rodham Clinton urged a quick end to U.S. involvement in the conflict.
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Barack Obama gives stirring speech that promises to forge ahead with his "new American majority"