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For months, Los Angeles city officials have complained that regional hospitals are dropping off their indigent patients in the city's tough Skid Row area. On Wednesday, a group of city council members released a videotape that seems to have caught one hospital in the act.

After Katrina, sections of wall holding back water in New Orleans canals failed when they should have held. In a letter released Friday, an independent panel says engineers who designed the canal walls should have included a larger safety margin.

After the deadly terrorist attacks on the USS Cole and French tanker Limburg, many feared that Yemen would become al Qaeda's next base of operations. It hasn't... yet. But growing repression, corruption and lack of services are prompting fear that anger at the regime could play into the hands of al Qaeda supporters.

This averages out to more than 13 such attacks a week.

The person in charge of improving the U.S. image abroad is not expecting it to get much better soon. Karen Hughes says her efforts are part of a "long-term program."

The past few days have seen protests around the country in opposition to proposed federal immigration legislation. Renee Montagne speaks with Felipe Aguirre, the vice mayor of one Southern California town that has declared itself a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Business and labor groups are weighing in on proposed immigration legislation. The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO are both against certain provisions in the bill. But agri-business interests are backing the proposals.

Alex Chadwick speaks with famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who at 95 continues to influence the way people look and think about modern architecture.

A plan to replace a Biloxi, Miss., bridge heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina with a bigger version is sparking a debate over how the Gulf Coast should be rebuilt.

The annual report of Reporters Without Borders finds that more journalists have been killed in Iraq since March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam. Reporters have become targets in Iraq in marked contrast with reporters' experiences during the war in Vietnam.