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Active Atlantic hurricane season predicted for 2013
In just a few days' time, the Atlantic hurricane season begins, with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center predicting an active season and an above-average number of storms.
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Fighting talk on the edge of America's cliff
America's politicians have never been so bitterly opposed: and it's been brought to a head by the crisis over the fiscal cliff. This is edge of the planet stuff - not just edge of the cliff.
"Shame on you": the New Jersey governor Chris Christie has launched a stinging attack on his own party leaders for scrapping a vote on relief aid for victims of superstorm Sandy.
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The Statue of Liberty have been switched on for the first time since Superstorm Sandy knocked out the power two weeks ago, but much of the city hasn't been so lucky. Inigo Gilmore reports.
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Heavy snow blankets Sandy-hit parts of US
A nor'easter storm has hit the north east of the US, taking heavy rain, snow and gales to places that were hit by Hurricane Sandy just a week ago.
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Nor'easter threatens rain and gales for east coast of US
Whilst the weather since Sandy struck has been relatively quiet, allowing clean up efforts to begin, this could be set to change midweek as an area of low pressure runs along the east coast of the US.
Power outages, blocked roads and flooding still plague thousands cleaning up in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy where the combined death toll has risen to more than 170.
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The lights may be glittering in Manhattan but much of the northeast is still struggling. Many in the New York borough of Staten Island are without power and fearful of looters. Inigo Gilmore reports.
It was a campaign rally hastily turned into a disaster relief event. But Mitt Romney's team has been accused of buying the relief donations themselves - telling supporters to "just grab something".
The week in pictures: Obama and Romney on the campaign trail in the wake of Sandy.
