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NEW YORK – The U.S. Justice Department has advised a federal judge that it has significant concerns about a proposed legal settlement that would give Google the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. The brief filed late Friday in New York federal court marks the first time the Justice …

PHILADEPLPHIA – A Pennsylvania Health Department report says a nurse twice called the name of a Philadelphia man who died of a heart attack in a hospital waiting room but never went to look for him. The report issued Thursday found that hospital staff first called 63-year-old Joaquin Rivera’s name …

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” January 6, 2010. 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! BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Miller Time” segment tonight, the first Miller exposition …

The World Health Organization (WHO) denied on Tuesday that it was unduly influenced by drugs companies to exaggerate the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. Pharmaceutical firms picked up multi-million dollar vaccination contracts when the United Nations health agency declared the flu a pandemic last June. Although many millions around …

ROSTOV-ON-DOV, Russia – An instructor and four novice climbers have been killed in an avalanche in Russia’s southern Caucasus mountain range. An emergency official says four other climbers in the party survived the snow slide, which struck as they were ascending a more than 12,000-foot peak by the easiest route. …

NEW YORK – Jasmina Anema, a 6-year-old girl who fought a valiant battle against a rare form of leukemia and got her wish to meet President Barack Obama, has died. Jasmina Anema died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital, surrounded by her mother, Thea, and her mother’s close friends, said her …

The news that is not White House approved… Say What? The troubled tenure of one New York state senator has just sunk to a new low. Democrat Kevin Parker, who in recent years was charged with punching a traffic agent and allegedly assaulting a New York Post photographer, is now …

A new Rasmussen poll is simply astounding. The survey says 75 percent of American voters are angry at the federal government. Forty-five percent say they’re very angry. Only 19 percent say they are fine with the feds. Both Republicans and Democrats expressed frustration in the poll, and 60 percent of …

So, according to scientists, conservationists have been pumping up the number of extinct species – and that a third of all missing critters are still alive and pooping. According to one pointy-head, of the 187 mammal species that have been missing since the 1500’s, 67 have been “rediscovered,” much like …

Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter was arrested in a Pennsylvania sex sting in November on a litany of charges involving a lewd Internet conversation with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl. Ritter, 48, allegedly masturbated in front of a Web camera while he was engaged …