NEW YORK – About a quarter of the nation’s TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television despite two years of warnings about the transition. Though most viewers were ready — and people with cable or …

Some owners of foreclosed homes are stealing appliances and leaving the houses damaged and in disarray, bringing down their already-sagging values, MyFOXOrlando.com reported. Real estate agents are complain the trashed houses are harder to sell. Homeowners angry at banks that are forcing them out have been hauling items from their …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian authorities have blocked two Web sites promoting the presidential bid of Mohammed Khatami, reformists said Saturday, in a first sign that powerful hard-liners might seek to thwart his challenge to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election. Khatami declared on Feb. 8 he would run again …

WASHINGTON – While R. Allen Stanford’s investors were swallowing claims of vast returns on safe investments, some of his employees weren’t so sure. And though one of them tried as early as 2003 to pass on to regulators his concerns about the bank, nothing came of it until Stanford’s operations …

The World Bank, a cornerstone of the United Nations’ global anti-poverty effort, failed to tell the rest of the world organization that it had banned now-imploding Satyam Computer Services last February from further business following a corruption probe — and thus allowed the U.N. to enter into a $6 million …

This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” January 28, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Miller Time” …

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The choice between $75 prescription sleeping pills or a $5 herbal alternative is a no-brainer for Cathy and Bernard Birleffi, whose insurance costs have skyrocketed along with the nation’s financial woes. The Calistoga, Calif., couple seem to reflect a trend. With many Americans putting off routine doctor visits and self-medicating …

OSLO, Norway – An off-duty police officer in northern Norway shot and killed his ex-girlfriend with another officer’s service pistol, then critically wounded himself Friday outside the elementary school where she was a student teacher, police said. No children were injured. The shooting happened in the snowy parking lot between …

A man walked into a hospital emergency room with a 5-inch knife buried in his head after being stabbed by his father. One nurse fainted as the 38-year-old calmly asked for treatment, with the entire blade buried in his head. X-ray imagesshow how only the handle was left sticking out. …