WASHINGTON (AP) — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That’s a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998.Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say....
Karzai's U.S. visit a time for tough talk
Label: LifestyleThe last time Presidents Obama and Karzai met was in May in Kabul, when they signed a pact regarding U.S. troop withdrawal.STORY HIGHLIGHTSAfghan President Karzai meeting with President Obama in Washington this weekFelbab-Brown: Afghan politics are corrupt; army not ready for 2014 troop pulloutShe says Taliban, insurgents, splintered army, corrupt officials are all jockeying for powerU.S. needs to...
Exhausted Egyptians count cost of political turmoil
Label: BusinessZAGAZIG, Egypt (Reuters) - These days, craftsmen, shopkeepers and other inhabitants of the Egyptian Delta town of Zagazig are often too busy making ends meet to ponder why life seems to be getting harder every day. But when, exhausted, they finally come home and sit down to their evening meal, conversations inevitably turn to growing hardship and the frightening prospect of cuts in food...
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Stock futures flat as earnings season begins
Label: WorldNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set to tick lower at the open on Tuesday as an earnings season expected to show sluggish corporate growth gets under way. Profits in the fourth quarter are seen above the previous quarter's lackluster results, but analysts' current estimates are down sharply from where they were in October. Quarterly earnings are expected to grow by 2.8 percent, according...
'Bama bashes Notre Dame 42-14 in BCS title game
Label: TechnologyMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Barely taking time to celebrate their latest national championship, Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide are ready to get back to work.That's how they make it look so easy.In what must be an increasingly frustrating scene for the rest of college football, another season ended with Saban and his players frolicking in the middle of a confetti-strewn field. Eddie Lacy ran...
Maine gas prices up 2 cents
Label: WorldAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The cost of gas in Maine is on the rise again.Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail price of a gallon of gas in Maine rose more than two cents in the past week to $ 3.54. The site surveys more than 1,200 Maine gas stations.The price of gas in Maine remains 28 cents above the national average, which was unchanged in the past week.Prices...
Australian firefighters battle bush blazes, intense heat
Label: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Federal government steps in with fuel, personnel to help NSW fire effortMore than 130 fires are burning across NSW during one of the hottest days on record 90% of the Australian state is under "severe" or higher fire warningsHigh temperatures and dry conditions have combined to create "dangerous day"Editor's note: Are you there? Send your stories, images to iReport(CNN) -- Soaring...
1 killed, 8 wounded in overnight shootings
Label: Health A 24-year-old man was killed and at least eight others were wounded in overnight gun violence on the city's West and South Sides,...
Tunisia frees man held over attack on U.S. consulate in Libya
Label: BusinessTunis (Reuters) - Tunisia has freed, for lack of evidence, a Tunisian man who had been suspected of involvement in an Islamist militant attack in Libya last year in which the U.S. ambassador was killed, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Ali Harzi was one of two Tunisians named in October by the Daily Beast website as having been detained in Turkey over the violence in which Christopher Stevens,...
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