NEW ORLEANS — Former President George W. Bush returns Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to tout the region's recovery from the nation's costliest natural disaster on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. 

OBAMA-KATRINA

NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, while visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant. B

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON-BIDEN

WASHINGTON — In ways both subtle and blunt, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sending a message to Vice President Joe Biden about his potential presidential campaign: This won't be easy. 

VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA

CARACAS, Venezuela — Leidy Echeverri fled the Colombian countryside six years ago with her toddler in tow after a paramilitary group threatened her husband's life. Now she's again taken her children and run, this time in the other direction, amid a Venezuelan crackdown on Colombian immigrants. 

TROPICAL-WEATHER

ROSEAU, Dominica — Rescue crews fan across Dominica to search for missing and injured people after Tropical Storm Erika pummel the eastern Caribbean island, unleashing landslides and killing at least four people. 

GUATEMALA-POLITICAL CRISIS

GUATEMALA CITY — Pressure grows on Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to resign as business and government offices closed, protesters marched by the thousands and the attorney general's office urged him to step down "to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation." 

BRAZIL-DILMA ON DEFENSE

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff is already facing the worst economic crisis in a decade and the lowest approval rating for any president since the country's return to democracy. Now she could be faced with a new threat: Impeachment, which two-thirds of Brazilians polled say they want to see happen.