Nation wilts as heat wave spreads eastward

Friday, July 22, 2011 | 10:01 a.m. CDT; updated 12:25 p.m. CDT, Friday, July 22, 2011

NEW YORK — Americans withered under yet another day of searing sun Friday as a heat wave spread in earnest into the urban core of the Northeast, while warnings about excessive heat stretched from Kansas to Maine and the Carolinas.

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