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BATON ROUGE, La. – Senior Bush administration officials touring the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina (search) expressed concern Tuesday about possible shortages of natural gas, saying that the region’s production may not recover for months. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman (search) said there is less known about the damage …

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina (search) showed racial insensitivity. “Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race,” the administration’s highest-ranking black said as …

Fall has unofficially begun — bringing with it the usual crop of Oscar hopefuls and would-be holiday blockbusters. The bigger releases — the latest “Harry Potter” movie, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “King Kong” — won’t be at your local cineplex until the …