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• Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline failed by one vote in the Senate, but Republicans vow to pass the bill in the next GOP-controlled Congress in January.
• A federal appeals court has refused to issue a stay preventing same-sex marriages from taking place in South Carolina, but the state will make an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court.
• Record lake-effect snowfall in upstate New York could bring storm totals to over 6 feet as officials in the area say at least four people have died from weather-related problems.
• A suicide car bomb in the Iraqi Kurd capital of Erbil has killed five as militants attacked the governor's office, leaving several wounded.
• School textbook makers have removed confusing and conflicting information about climate change from Texas's student textbooks ahead of a state school board meeting on teaching materials.