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MIAMI – Tropical Storm Stan (search) made landfall in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula early Sunday with 45 mph sustained winds, but forecasters predicted it would weaken to a tropical depression as it moves over the region. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the eastern coast of the Yucatan from …

WASHINGTON – The heart failure drug BiDil (search) was approved Thursday by government regulators for use by blacks. It will be the first medication marketed for a specific racial group. The Food and Drug Administration (search) called the approval a step toward “the promise of personalized medicine.” Studies showed that …

DAKAR, Senegal – Up to 20 percent of suicide car bombers in Iraq are from Algeria (search), a sign of growing cooperation between Islamic extremists in northern Africa and like-minded Iraqis, a senior U.S. military official said Tuesday. The American officer said terror cells in the Middle East and northern …

BOISE, Idaho – A man who won a $220.3 million Powerball (search) lottery jackpot — the second-largest single-ticket Powerball winning — plans to invest the money and become a billionaire. Brad Duke, a 33-year-old regional fitness director for a health club chain, said he hopes to build a $1 billion …

PARIS – Rafael Nadal’s first Grand Slam (search) final will be remembered for the magnificent tiebreaker he lost, the set points he saved and the title he won. In a match filled with spectacular exchanges at dramatic moments, Spanish sensation Nadal beat an unseeded but unyielding Mariano Puerta 6-7 (6), …

TORONTO – A chain saw-wielding man who U.S. authorities allowed to enter the United States boasted he was a “trained sniper with over 700 kills” and refused to return to Canada for a court date, a top U.S. customs official revealed Friday. But William Heffelfinger, deputy assistant commissioner for field …

TEHRAN, Iran – A constitutional watchdog council Wednesday approved the result of presidential runoff election that gave ultraconservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (search) a landslide victory, state-run television reported. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of the Guardian Council, said in a letter addressed to Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari that the council approved …

OMAHA, Neb. – ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG), a top U.S. food producer with brands such as Butterball (search) and Chef Boyardee (search), said Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings declined 40 percent, primarily due to lower profit from its packaged-meats. Net income fell to $101.9 million, or 20 cents per share, from …

WASHINGTON – The main national carpenter’s union is joining a coalition of some of the nation’s largest unions challenging the AFL-CIO’s (search) approach to leading the labor movement. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America broke away from the labor federation in 2001, saying it was shifting more …