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NEW YORK – Stocks rose Tuesday, with retailer shares jumping after Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) reported better-than-expected preliminary June sales, but oil prices limited gains on concerns that higher fuel costs would shrink corporate profits. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average (search) advanced 68.36 points, or 0.66 percent, to end at …

LAS VEGAS – Australian Joseph Hachem (search) prevailed in a colossal dual Saturday at the World Series of Poker’s main event, winning $7.5 million and snatching the game’s greatest crown in the longest final table in the tournament’s history. Only six hands into the two-man battle at the end, Hachem …

HAVANA – Cuban President Fidel Castro (search) said in a speech published Friday that he’s honored to be a friend of Elian Gonzalez (search), the boy at the center of an international custody dispute five years ago. “I have the privilege to be his friend,” Castro said Thursday night during …