WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck won U.S. approval Friday for the first pill that treats both diabetes and high cholesterol, a potentially dangerous combination that affects millions of Americans.

TISKILWA, Ill. (AP) -- Explosions shook a northern Illinois village awake early Friday when a freight train loaded with ethanol crashed and derailed, sending bright orange flames shooting into the sky and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Although their main concern is Wall Street practices and economic inequality, some demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. say politicians from both major parties are to blame for policies they say protect corporate America at the expense of the country's middle class.

SEATAC, Wash. (AP) -- Rental car company Hertz indefinitely suspended 34 Somali Muslim shuttle drivers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for praying on company time, and the workers' union is trying to put them back in the driver's seat after what it calls a sudden policy change.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Memphis woman who spent 26 years on death row and came within two months of being executed was freed Friday from a Tennessee prison.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are President Barack Obama's ideas for job creation really bipartisan as he claims? Not when the means for paying for them are put in the equation.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Some New York City officials say they need more control over the New York Police Department after being left in the dark about programs that subjected entire Muslim neighborhoods to surveillance and scrutiny.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Rick Perry's loss has been Herman Cain's gain.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage this week fell below 4 percent for the first time ever, to 3.94 percent.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.