This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from December 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The Senate made critical progress last night with a creative new framework that I believe will …
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho – Authorities in Twin Falls County say a father and his son are being held on separate charges of sexual assault. They say 43-year-old Franklin Ward Osterhoudt and his 20-year-old son, Franklin Scott Osterhoudt, are being held early Saturday at the county jail. The elder Osterhoudt faces …
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It looks like a soap bubble, but it’s about five light-years across and floating in deep space. Three amateur astronomers in California found the beautiful planetary nebula a year ago, and they have now been officially recognized as its discoverers. Officially named PN G75.5+1.7, the “soap bubble nebula” is the …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard Co is studying uses for Google Inc’s Android operating system, but the world’s top PC maker stopped short of saying it had decided to adopt the fledgling software in its products. The free, open-source Android operating system is now used on smartphones but is being designed …
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CINCINNATI – The Domino’s pizza chain has given away nearly 11,000 free pizzas because of a never-used promotion that a Web customer stumbled upon. Tim McIntyre, spokesman for Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Domino’s, said Wednesday that the company had prepared an Internet coupon for an ad campaign that was considered in …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Wednesday offered to help finance a Palestinian Authority run by the Hamas militant group, state radio said in a report prompting Israel to warn it would do all it legally could to stop the Palestinians from receiving the money. The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National …
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HOUSTON – Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling ordered last-minute changes to at least two quarterly earnings reports so the company could meet or beat analysts’ expectations, a former vice president of investor relations testified Tuesday. Paula Rieker, 51, also said Enron founder Kenneth Lay told the company’s directors …
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Supporters of the president — and generally speaking, I am one — have upped the ante in the name-calling game over the Dubai Ports World deal to take over six American ports. Last week the name-calling went along these lines: If you opposed the United Arab Emirates taking over the …
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This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” February 27, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: From levitation to great escapes, he is used to shocking the public. And that’s what Criss Angel, the star of his own A&E show “Mindfreak” and …
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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Twenty-one gay rights activists were detained at the U.S. Military Academy and issued federal citations Wednesday while protesting the Pentagon‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The academy was their last stop on a cross-country tour of 20 conservative Christian and military colleges that protest organizers say …
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