This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” May 16, 2008. 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!” E.D. HILL, GUEST HOST: In the “Impact” …
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HONOLULU – Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study says. The study released Thursday by SPLASH, an international organization of more than 400 whale watchers, estimates there were between 18,000 …
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Turkish riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannons Thursday to break up crowds of workers and students trying to reach a main Istanbul square for a Labor Day rally banned by the government. Authorities said 505 demonstrators were detained and six police officers were injured. …
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NEW ORLEANS – Police are investigating the death of a person who was found inside of a trash bin in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. Police say the body was found late Thursday night. The body and the garbage bin were taken to the coroner’s office, where an autopsy …
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – A small attic fire in a San Jose home has turned into a major marijuana discovery. When firefighters responded to a report of smoke coming from an attic of the house Tuesday evening, they found marijuana plants growing throughout the three-bedroom residential home. Authorities say there …
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BILLINGS, Mont. – The body of a 34-year-old Glendive woman who was reported missing on April 12 has been found in the Yellowstone River, Dawson County Sheriff Craig Anderson said Wednesday. Susan Casey’s body was found Tuesday near Fallon, about 30 miles from Glendive. “With the discovery of Susan Casey’s …
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Foul weather Monday forced the U.S. Coast Guard to stop searching for a woman passenger who fell overboard from a cruise ship off the Atlantic City coast. The Norwegian Dawn was headed for Bermuda from New York City when the 46-year-old woman went overboard at about …
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LONDON – A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as “pretty childish” has sold at auction for more than $400,000. Bloomsbury Auctions said Friday that the handwritten letter sold to an overseas collector after frenetic bidding late …
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LOS ANGELES – Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, are engaged. The 23-year-old actress and the 31-year-old actor have not set a wedding date, Johansson’s publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Monday. Johansson’s recent credits include “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “The Nanny Diaries.” Reynolds recently starred in “Definitely, Maybe.” He …
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SEATTLE – Two European Union business consultants have been identified as the mystery men who raised security concerns when they were seen taking photographs aboard a Washington state ferry last summer. The men went to a U.S. embassy two weeks ago after seeing photographs of themselves that the FBI released …
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