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SAN FRANCISCO – The Pentagon is awarding $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned “trauma pod” designed to use robots to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on wounded soldiers in battlefield conditions. The researchers who pitched the Defense Department (search) on the idea have prepared a futuristic “concept …

ROME – U.S. forces in Iraq were only partially informed about last week’s Italian intelligence mission to release a hostage, which ended with a shooting on the road to Baghdad airport and the death of secret service agent Nicola Calipari (search), Italian newspapers said Friday. While U.S. authorities were informed …

MALIBU, Calif. – Crews repairing a section of highway in this oceanside community Monday found a work boot containing a severed human foot in a pile of landfill dirt, authorities said. The foot, which appeared to be a man’s foot, was found in Topanga Canyon (search) about 4½ miles from …