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Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the insurer that sold life units to focus on property-casualty coverage, increased its share buyback by $1.6 billion and raised the dividend 17 percent as second-quarter profit beat analysts estimates.

New Yorks odds of being flooded by a one- two punch of extreme rain and surging seas have more than doubled in the past 80 years, a change scientists say may be linked to global warming.