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By Mitra Taj and Terry Wade LIMA, May 10 (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala wants to lure more foreign investment to Peru while trying to ease tensions over natural resources in rural areas largely left behind by a long economic boom. Since being...

One after another, teams of Hidalgo and Cameron county officials made a pitch for their side. In the latest regional dispute over medical education in South Texas, the broad point of agreement from both ends of the Rio Grande Valley was that legislation...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A measure used by Medicare to penalize hospitals for poor performance is not linked to how many patients die after being admitted, suggests a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Glendale officials are crossing their fingers as they await word on a federal application for $2.6 million to fund homeless services programs. Competition is tough as homeless service providers nationwide are demanding $1.7 billion from the U.S....

Apartment complexes planned before the demise of the redevelopment agencies in California continue to rise in North Hollywood. The projects in the NoHo Arts District near the northern terminus of the Red Line subway include the recently completed NoHo...

Hunger. Environmental degradation. Political instability. These were among the consequences of rapid global population growth documented in a five-part series in The Times in July. Now, Opinion has invited leading scholars to consider what, if anything,...

Did you know that experts predict our children will be the first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents? You ask, why? Today, children drink more sugar-sweetened beverages than their parents, as children. Too much sugar in the...

The hit-and-run driver who killed bicyclist Michael Wang was sentenced to 41 months in prison Friday. Erlin Garcia-Reyes, 28, of Normandy Park, pleaded guilty July 17 to felony hit-and-run in connection with the July 28, 2011, death of Wang in Seattle...