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The No Child Left Behind education law mandates that by year's end, every state should have ensured that every teacher is "highly qualified." Yet no state has met the federal government's requirements under this provision.

Three groups of U.S. military personnel who visited the scene of a U.S. Marine engagement that left 24 Iraqi civilians dead failed to report the incident up the chain of command, according to an Army general's new report.

Chicago Public Radio's Jason DeRose reports on a meeting of U.S. Episcopalians in Ohio. They are debating several key issues dealing with homosexuality.

The chief executive of British Petroleum says concern over the stability of the world's oil supply is overblown. "I do worry that people worry too much and that we could potentially be overdoing the anxiety," Lord John Browne says.

Many filmmakers still look to Billy Wilder as an example of how to make movies that matter. Wilder could helm hard-boiled thrillers or romantic comedies with equal dexterity because he followed a basic set of rules. We honor Wilder on what would have been his 100th birthday.

A closely divided Supreme Court rules that when police don't announce themselves when executing a search warrant, the justices will no longer require evidence seized to be excluded from any subsequent trial.

Abu Bakar Bashir, a militant Islamic cleric, walks out of an Indonesian prison after serving 26 months for conspiracy in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings. Some consider him the most dangerous man in South Asia. Others say evidence against Bashir was weak.

U.S. forces, supported by tanks and attack aircraft, roll into the Iraqi city of Ramadi from the east. The persistent, violent insurgency in Ramadi has taken a high toll on U.S. forces stationed there.

A juror who voted to convict an accused terrorist now says she regrets voting to convict the man in Lodi, Calif. Madeleine Brand talks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about how uncommon it would be for a judge to throw out a conviction based on a juror's regrets.

A draft flu-pandemic response plan from the federal government says a worst-case scenario could kill as many as 2 million people in the United States. The draft Bush administration plan is an update to the $7.1 billion in pandemic preparations that it proposed last fall. The plan outlines exactly which government agency is responsible for about 300 tasks.