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LOS ANGELES – About one-fifth of the nation’s organ transplant centers don’t meet federal standards for patient survival or perform the required minimum number of operations annually, according to an analysis by the Los Angeles Times. TheU.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has allowed 48 heart, liver and lung …

BERLIN – Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter wounded by a car bomb in Iraq, now has a Purple Heart at her bedside in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after a young American soldier gave her his medal, the network said. Dozier, 39, was seriously injured in a blast Monday …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A lawyer who had several relatives among 24 Iraqis allegedly slain by U.S. Marines last fall and is representing kin of other victims complained in a videotape Saturday that American compensation paid to the families was inadequate. Khaled Salem Rsayef also said U.S. officers accused him and …