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2012 another bad year for U.S. disasters, and it may get worse
Tornadoes and wildfires. Droughts and hurricanes. The United States saw almost every sort of calamity this year as 11 billion-dollar natural disasters struck the country. Superstorm Sandy hit New York, ruined parts of the New Jersey coast and closed the...
Tags: Conservation, Global Change, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Munich (Germany), Environmental Issues
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Quiz: Test your hurricane knowledge
The 2012 hurricane season, which proved to be one of the busiest on record, officially comes to a close Friday. But what hurricane spawned the most tornadoes in history? When was the deadliest cyclone? Will there be hurricane in 2013 named Tami? Take...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters
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Christie's approval ratings soar as reelection campaign begins
NEW YORK -- First he appeared with President Obama, a Democrat, after Hurricane Sandy. Then he and his fleece jacket showed up on “Saturday Night Live,” mocking mayors who ignored his evacuation orders. Now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Polls, Middletown, Government, Elections
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House finally OKs Sandy aid; Senate action expected soon
WASHINGTON--Seventy-eight days after Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast, the House on Tuesday approved $50.5 billion in disaster relief in a vote that exposed divisions within Republican ranks and foreshadowed the spending fights that lie ahead. ...
Tags: Jim Cooper, Statue of Liberty, Head Start, U.S. House of Representatives, Elections
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Chris Christie rips NRA's anti-Obama ad; Rand Paul rips Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose political hug of President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy raised Republican hackles, has now criticized the National Rifle Assn. for the group's anti-gun control ad that referenced the president's two daughters....
Tags: Mitt Romney, Gun Control, Government, Parties and Movements, Elections
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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted on corruption charges
Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who was the combative and determined face of his city crushed beneath the floodwaters spawned by Hurricane Katrina, has been indicted on bribery and related charges, officials announced on Friday. The charges...
Tags: Television Industry, Prosecution, National Government, Satellite and Cable Service, Government
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Jon Stewart lashes out at House Republicans over Hurricane Sandy aid
“The Daily Show” returned Monday after an unusually newsy holiday hiatus that included the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary and the manufactured drama of the fiscal cliff negotiations. In his first broadcast of 2013, Jon Stewart...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Voting, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Parties and Movements, Elections
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Pictures in the News | Aug. 29, 2012
FrameworkWednesday's Pictures in the News begins in Louisiana, where research students from the the University of Alabama measure wind speeds as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall Wednesday in New Orleans. Isaac was packing 80 mph winds, making it a Category 1... -
O.C. search-and-rescue workers to aid Sandy efforts on East Coast
L.A. NOWThree members of an Orange County urban search-and-rescue team have been dispatched to the East Coast to help out with Hurricane Sandy, part of an 83-member California emergency response contingent expected to be deployed.... -
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall; rains, waves hammer East Coast
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Monday evening, arriving ahead of schedule with a punch as powerful as feared. The storm, with winds and driving rains that have already caused flooding up and down the Eastern Seaboard, made its heralded landfall near...
Tags: Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy (2012), National Hurricane Center, Heart Attack, Natural Disasters
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Art foundations offer monetary aid following Hurricane Sandy
Arts organizations in New York that have sustained damage from Hurricane Sandy are getting a helping hand from foundations and other groups that have agreed to donate money to the relief effort. The Andy Warhol Foundation recently announced that it...
Tags: Andy Warhol, Arts, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Arts and Culture
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HMS Bounty: Woman killed in tall ship's sinking loved the sea
L.A. NOWShe was bright, vivacious and in love with with her ship, the HMS Bounty. Claudene Christian, the former USC song girl who died at sea Monday when the tall ship on which she was sailing sank off the North Carolina......
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