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Like so many victims of Hurricane Katrina, commentator Chris Rose managed to escape New Orleans before the storm devastated the region. But now he finds himself out of touch with his family and friends.

As the U.S. approaches 1 million COVID-19 deaths, cases and hospitalizations have started rising again, deaths are poised to creep up again, and the nation is on alert for yet another surge.

President Bush announces that his father and former president Bill Clinton will head up fundraising efforts for recovery following Hurricane Katrina. The two led a fundraising mission after the Asian tsunami last December. Bush and the former presidents met in the Oval Office this afternoon.

Family and friends last night remembered the 12 miners who died this week at the Sago Mine in West Virginia. Company officials tried to explain what happened to the miners and why the families had been misinformed about their fate. From West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Emily Corio reports.

John Johnson, who died Monday at 87, overcame racial barriers to make a fortune on the magazines Ebony and Jet. He was the first black American to make Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest people.

Photographer Francine Orr has seen first-hand the faces and heard the voices of child soldiers caught up in brutal conflicts. Orr recently published a photo essay of images from Uganda, and the children of the so-called Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA.

Swedish pop star Jens Lekman sounds more like Lawrence Welk and Burt Bacharach than his American counterparts Kanye West and Ashlee Simpson. His deep, silky voice and instrumentation lends his music a retro pop feel, but the lyrics are too odd to be throwbacks.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history Monday, breaking the uber-composer's own record that he set with Cats.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains in the intensive care unit of a Jerusalem hospital after seven hours of surgery to stop bleeding in his brain. The 77-year-old Sharon suffered a massive stroke late Wednesday.

The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri began in London Monday. He is charged with 16 offenses, including incitement to murder and possessing a document relating to terrorism. He's also the subject of an extradition request from the U.S. government.