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NEW YORK – U.S. investors are getting ready to beat the heat after a feast of better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and strong outlooks. Still, lackluster July retail sales and crude’s move to new highs may be a nagging worry as Wall Street retreats for the summer. Second-quarter earnings growth expectations for …

ROME – As he lay dying, Pope John Paul II (search) was aware of the presence of the crowd in St. Peter’s Square (search) below his apartment window and calmly viewed death as a “passage from one room to another,” his longtime secretary said in an interview broadcast Friday night. …

CINCINNATI – Federated Department Stores Inc. (FD), owner of such nameplates as Bloomingdale’s (search) and Macy’s, said Wednesday its earnings nearly doubled in its second quarter, and the company sees sales growth picking up in the second half of the year. Net income for the quarter that ended July 30 …