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With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists kicked off a national bus tour on Saturday, aiming to rally their base and new recruits to the conservative political cause.

Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, knocking out power and flooding some of Lower Manhattan's deserted streets even as it lost some of its power.

Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard.

Hurricane Irene battered New York with ferocious winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard.

At least three people have been killed in North Carolina by Category-1 hurricane Irene, which has also knocked out power to more than 227,000 homes and businesses, suffering from 85 mph winds.

Just hours after making landfall in North Carolina, with a path projected up the U.S. East Coast ravaging through high-population areas including New York, Hurricane Irene 2011 holds the potential for being one of the costliest storms ever. Already New York is in an unprecedented shutdown in anticipation of the storm, and while economic loss for business closings ahead of a storm isn't used as a formal hurricane damage calculation the impact is indicative of what's to come from Irene

Hurricane season for the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico runs from June 1 through November 30

Safety fears over the possible impact of Hurricane Irene have forced the National Football League (NFL) and other North American sporting bodies to reschedule or cancel events for this weekend.

At least 90,000 residents on North Carolina’s coast are without power, including a hospital in Morehead City.

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A number of Major League Baseball games have been postponed over the weekend as Hurricane Irene moves ominously over the east cost of the United States, it was announced on Friday.

Major petroleum pipelines in the United States began partial shutdowns Friday, the result of terminals supplied by those pipelines closing ahead of Hurricane Irene's arrival.

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Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled as airlines scramble to come up with a plan ahead of Hurricane Irene's expected hit along the East Coast.

As Hurricane Irene continues to roar up the East Coast headed in the direction for New York City; New Yorker's embrace the calm before the storm and have taken to Twitter to share tips and express mixed feelings towards the severity of the looming threat.

Hurricane season for the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico runs from June 1 through November 30.

Hurricane Irene could seriously threaten areas as far north as Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast, according to federal officials, who extended more hurricane watches and warnings on Friday.

Casey Anthony, who was voted as the most hated women in America, has received security measures from the Florida Department of Corrections, according to a probation spokeswoman Thursday.

Goodnight Irene! a North Carolina resident wrote on their house, which was left boarded up, anticipating the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., The storm's punishing weather from the Carolinas to as far north as Massachusetts threatens at least 65 million people in the storm's track.

Hurricane Irene 2011 is preparing to make a path of destruction and havoc up the U.S. East Coast beginning late Friday in North Carolina before hitting New York and Boston and other major cities on Sunday. Coastal regions were being evacuated in Delaware Friday, and states of emergency have been declared at states all along the coast line, from North Carolina and Virginia to New York and New Jersey as the potential storm of a lifetime gets ready to make landfall or come close on the U.S.