Adding the blood thinner Plavix (search) to standard heart attack treatments could cut deaths from severe heart attacks by more than a third. “There will be about a million heart attacks in the U.S. this year and about a third of them will be this type of severe heart attack; …

JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday permitted 1,400 more Palestinians to enter Israel, part of a gradual easing of restrictions after last month’s Mideast summit. The entry permits were issued to 900 Palestinian merchants and business people from the West Bank and 500 from the Gaza Strip (search), bringing the total …

The battle against wrinkles is moving from the operating room to the office as many men and women are forgoing facelifts in favor of injectable wrinkle fillers like Botox (search), according to a new report on plastic surgery trends (search). The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) report shows the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi officials Thursday released the first partial returns from national elections, showing a commanding lead by candidates backed by the Shiite Muslim (search) clergy. Sunni insurgents unleashed a wave of attacks, killing at least 30 people, including three U.S. Marines and a dozen Iraqi army recruits. Meanwhile, …

WASHINGTON – President Bush’s budget (search) will propose slashing grants to local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The Associated Press learned Saturday. Bush molded the roughly $2.5 trillion spending plan for 2006 as a response to a …

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail gasoline prices fell for the first time in five weeks and diesel fuel costs had their first decline in a month, the Energy Department (search) said Monday. The national pump price for regular unleaded gasoline dropped a slight 0.2 cent over the last week to $1.909 …

WICHITA, Kan. – For about 15 years, it was the job of the man police have accused of being the BTK serial killer (search) to help keep people safe. Before he started as a city code enforcer in suburban Park City, Dennis L. Rader was an employee at an ADT …

WASHINGTON – Howls of protest can be heard in some quarters over President Bush’s plan to get rid of Even Start (search), a 15-year-old, $225 million federal literacy program for low-income families. “The focus of this program, of an Even Start program, is on family literacy. So not just the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Shiite alliance won a slim majority in Iraq’s new National Assembly, according to certified election returns announced Thursday, but it may take weeks to form a government. Meanwhile, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (search) cautioned against excluding all Saddam Hussein’s (search) supporters. Because a two-thirds majority …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. humanitarian chief urgently called on world leaders Friday to vastly increase the number of troops in Sudan’s Darfur region to protect unarmed civilians and humanitarian workers facing a wave of murder, rape and looting. Jan Egeland (search) depicted a crisis in which the number of …