Report questions official Haiti quake death toll

Far fewer peo­ple died or were left home­less by last year’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake than claimed by Hait­ian lead­ers, a report com­mis­sioned by the U.S. gov­ern­ment has con­cluded — chal­leng­ing a cen­tral premise behind a multibillion-dollar aid and recon­struc­tion effort.