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WASHINGTON – States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress. With the federal government’s permission, schools aren’t counting the test scores of nearly 2 million students when they report progress by …

LIMA, Peru – Voters in Peru’s presidential elections will choose Sunday between pro-business promises of stability and populist pledges to redistribute wealth and bring justice to the underdog. Ollanta Humala, a former army officer who has pledged to divert money from foreign companies to the poor, faces tough competition in …

HARLINGEN, Texas – Leonel Garza was 71 when he died of a heart attack, 23 years after being diagnosed with heart disease and decades after a heart attack and a quadruple bypass. But his lawyers who are suing Merck & Co. (MRK) say it was the Vioxx that he took …