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BAGHDAD, Iraq – In the Baghdad night, awakened by the rumble of car bombs and the thump-thump of attack helicopters, Peter Smallwood lies in a sandbagged trailer counting his trees. In his mind’s forest, the University of Richmond (search) ecologist zigzags through a dark maze of Appalachian hardwoods until he …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – I first met David Petraeus (search) in a rustling tent in the wind-swept desert of Kuwait almost two years ago. A scholar and one of the brightest stars in the U.S. military, Petraeus is measured and careful about what he says. Petraeus sat to talk about America’s …

WASHINGTON – Like the man behind the curtain working the levers in “The Wizard of Oz,” Dick Cheney (search) has been called the real power in President George W. Bush’s (search) administration, perhaps the strongest vice president in U.S. history. But as Bush enters his second term, Cheney’s role is …

WASHINGTON – When the joint session of Congress meets Thursday to certify the Electoral College votes that gave President Bush his second term, several Democratic House members are expected to contest the results. They may also find support from Sen. Barbara Boxer (search), D-Calif., whose participation under congressional rules would …

DUNBAR, Pa. – Sam Ross Jr. (search) has three laundry hampers in the bedroom of his sparsely furnished trailer. One for jeans, one for T-shirts and the other for underwear. They’re always in the same place and same order. In the family room, he also has a routine: He keeps …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – An attacker blew up an explosives-laden car Wednesday outside a police academy south of Baghdad (search) during a graduation ceremony, killing 20 people. A second car bomber killed five Iraqi policemen — bringing the death toll to at least 90 so far this week in surging violence …

A commonly used prostate cancer treatment (search) increases the risk of a bone fracture, research shows. Prostate cancer cells grow in response to testosterone (search). Using hormone therapy to block the effect of testosterone has become an increasingly common prostate cancer treatment in the last 15 years, say researchers in …

WASHINGTON – Atheist Michael Newdow (search) failed in his bid last week to remove prayer from President Bush’s inaugural ceremony, but his complaint is unlikely to be the last in an effort to remove references to religion from the public discourse. From U.S. currency to government buildings, there are myriad …

OTTAWA – Nortel Networks Corp. (NT) took steps to close the books on a protracted accounting scandal on Tuesday, releasing long-awaited restatements of results from 2001 through 2003 and announcing that executives would pay back millions of dollars in bonuses. Nortel, one of the world’s biggest telecom equipment suppliers, said …

KUWAIT CITY – One U.S. military helicopter pilot was killed and another was injured in a training accident in Kuwait, the American military said Saturday. The accident involving the AH-64 Apache (search) pilots occurred Friday afternoon northwest of Kuwait City, the military said in a statement. The statement did not …