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NASSAU, Bahamas – Bahamian authorities will decide whether to deport seven Cuban migrants the U.S. Coast Guard rescued from a remote island in the Caribbean country, officials said Friday. The migrants were still aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter Friday afternoon, but because they were rescued from Elbow Cay it …

NEW ORLEANS – Merck & Co. (MRK) included the idea that its painkiller Vioxx might increase the risk of heart attacks in the first draft of a paper submitted to a top medical journal but dropped it because a reviewer found the section “awkward,” a company executive testified. Alise Reicin, …

WASHINGTON – The following is a translated transcript of a Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union address given by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who spoke in Spanish. LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA: Good evening. My name is Antonio Villaraigosa. I’m Mayor of the City of Los …