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WASHINGTON – Senior military commanders said Sunday that Iraqi security forces are improving significantly as U.S. officials stood by earlier assessments that some U.S. forces could return home early next year. The generals played down the fact that the number of top-level battalions of Iraqi soldiers — those ready to …

Doctors often differ in their religious beliefs from the patients they treat every day, according to a new survey. The study shows that doctors are about as likely to have a religious affiliation as the general population. But researchers found that doctors are more than twice as likely as their …

LOS ANGELES – Lane Smith (search), a longtime character actor who played a small-town district attorney who clashed with Joe Pesci in “My Cousin Vinny (search),” died Monday. He was 69. Smith, who also played Richard Nixon in the TV movie “The Final Days (search)” and Daily Planet editor Perry …