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MOSCOW – Tens of thousands of Russians protested across the country Saturday against a law replacing transportation and medical benefits for pensioners with cash payments, but were countered by massive rival demonstrations organized by pro-Kremlin forces. The Communist-backed protest calling for the government’s ouster was the most widespread in President …

A tracheotomy (search) is a surgical procedure during which doctors cut a hole through the throat into the windpipe, or trachea, in order to help someone breathe. It’s performed when the windpipe gets blocked. How could the windpipe get blocked? — The larynx, or voicebox, could become so swollen that …

KABUL, Afghanistan – A NATO (search) helicopter searching for an Afghan jetliner that disappeared during a snowstorm with 104 people aboard found what appeared to be the wreckage of the plane Saturday in the forbidding mountains east of the Afghan capital, officials said. “The wreckage of the plane was found …