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Nagin and Brown Now Agree: US Not Prepared for Another Katrina
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, the city's former mayor, Ray Nagin, and ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown finally agree on one thing: The country remains unprepared for another storm of such magnitude. "I don't see any major changes that we've done in this country," Nagin said on NBC's "Today" show today. "I agree with the mayor," added Brown. "I think the systemic failures that we have there have not truly been addressed." Americans are of the same mind. A new poll released by the Pew Research Center this week found that ...
U.S. Aid to Afghanistan Slashed by $4B Amid Reports of Corruption
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsCongress has decided enough is enough in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, a House subcommittee blocked $3.9 billion in aid that the Obama administration wanted to send to Kabul. It's not that Congress was questioning the war effort itself -- now eight long years and counting with no end in sight. After all, also on Wednesday, the Senate unanimously confirmed Obama's pick of General David Petraeus to take command of the war effort after General Stanley McChrystal stepped down last week in the midst of the Rolling Stone article scandal. But propping up President Hamid Karzai's government with ...
Tents Aren't Holding Up in Heavy Haitian Rains
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (June 25) -- Hurricane season in Haiti officially began three weeks ago, bringing rain to the region nearly every day. More than 1.5 million Haitians remain in the streets. Yet this week, the United Nations completed a study, revealing that 40 percent of all emergency shelters, including tents and tarps, already need to be replaced or "improved." It took the international community five months to distribute almost 700,000 tarps and 70,000 tents and remains one of the most complex and difficult accomplishments of the disaster response. The new study, however, shows that ...
Text-Message Campaign Generates Deluge of Aid Money for Haiti
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA text-message campaign pushed by celebrities, athletes and the first lady has brought in $22 million in donations to the Red Cross for Haiti, the New York Times reports. The aid organization, one of the largest in the world, has raised $103 million, with nearly a quarter coming from the text-message campaign. Americans texted the word "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross. "I need a better word than 'unprecedented' or 'amazing' to describe what's happened with the text-message program," said Richard Lowe, a spokesman for the Red Cross. The donations came despite questions about the ...
Aid Chief Says Violence Hinders Haiti Relief Work
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 17) -- Some incidents of violence in Haiti have hindered rescue workers trying to help earthquake victims, a top official leading the U.S. government's relief efforts said Sunday. Providing humanitarian aid requires a safe and secure environment, said Lt. Gen. Ken Keen of the U.S. Southern Command. While streets have been largely calm, he said, violence has been increasing. Watch more CNN videos on AOL Video "We are going to have to address the situation of security," Keen said. "We've had incidents of violence that impede our ability to support the government of Haiti and ...
Obama Pledges $100 Million in Aid to Haiti
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama on Thursday pledged $100 million from the U.S. government to assist victims of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, the New York Times reports. In an emotional address, Obama said the $100 million would only be a beginning, and that the government would increase payments in the coming months. ...
U.S. Leaders Promise Assistance to Haiti After Massive Earthquake
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama said Wednesday that the U.S. government would "stand ready to assist the people of Haiti" following a massive earthquake in that already beleaguered nation, CNN reports. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also promised America's "full assistance" in the aftermath of the quake, which registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, killed thousands and left Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, in ruins. International aid organizations were preparing to provide assistance Wednesday as rescue workers continued to pull casualties from the wreckage. No death toll has been confirmed, but several ...
USAID to Investigate Report of Aid Money Flowing to Taliban
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has opened an investigation into allegations that millions of dollars in funds for road and bridge construction in Afghanistan have ended up in the hands of the Taliban through a protection racket for contractors. Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, vowed to hold hearings on the issue in the fall. A GlobalPost news report revealed a web of financial connections between major international contractors and the Taliban, in which the insurgents agree to lay off bombing and other violence in ...
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