The next hurricane serious hurricane threat to the U.S. may not be Hurricane Katia, but a new low-pressure system that developed in the Gulf of Mexico that the National Hurricane Center says is likely to become a tropical cyclone in the next two days. The unnamed storm has a good chance of threatening U.S. states on the northern Gulf Coast -- potentially areas hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Tropical Storm Katia is now a Category 1 hurricane, but its impact on the United States, if any, remained unclear as it continued to strengthen on Thursday.
A low pressure located in the central Gulf of Mexico could strengthen into a tropical storm or depression in the next 24 hours as Hurricane Katia churns in the Atlantic.
Hurricane Katia is likely to become a major storm this weekend, and an eventual threat to the U.S. has not been ruled out. The National Hurricane Center said Thursday Katia, now about 1,000 miles east of St. Lucia in the Carribbean, is on a projected path to be well east of the Bahamas and south of Bermuda by Sept. 6. Katia has winds near 75 miles per hour, and the storm is moving west at 20 miles per hour.
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If a new tropical storm gains momentum and becomes a hurricane, it could wreak havoc on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Katia is official, as the storm strengthened in the past 24 hours from tropical storm strength. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Katia, the second hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, will likely further strengthen and become a major hurricane by the weekend. The threat that Katia could eventually strike the U.S. remains, through models are uncertain.
Gold prices recovered some early losses on Thursday after European stock markets fell, snapping a three-day rally, and as investors weighed up the prospect of a fresh round of quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Tropical Storm Katia strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic Wednesday, while another mass of thunderstorms that could become a named storm this week triggered evacuations of some oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico.
James Hansen, a NASA scientist who famously gave congressional testimony on the environmental impacts of global warming back in 1988, was arrested outside of the White House on Monday.
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Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), lost his job amid a Congressional probe over a troubled gun-trafficking operation.
Brent crude hovered at $114 a barrel Wednesday, after posting six days of gains, on expectations the United States will act again to try and boost growth and increase demand for oil.
The Obama Administration on Tuesday replaced two senior officials who helped to oversee a troubled federal operation that targeted gun trafficking.
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Exxon Mobil can look for oil in Russian territory in the Arctic Ocean under an agreement made Tuesday with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company. The deal is huge for Exxon Mobil, which beat BP for access to a region in which oil drilling is largely prohibited.
The White House replaced the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney for Arizona on Tuesday in the latest casualties over a botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Mexico has arrested five suspected drug gang members in connection with the burning of a casino last week that killed at least 52 people, one of the worst attacks on civilians in the country in years.
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The United States was a net exporter of solar energy products last year, thanks to strong demand from China, Germany and Japan for U.S.-made polysilicon and capital equipment used to make solar panels.
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