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This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” February 6, 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!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Miller Time” …

NEW YORK – A $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claims a sex sting by the TV show “Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator” drove her brother to kill himself can go to trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In a scathing ruling, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin …

The West has been rocking lately, and it has nothing to do with loud guitar music. Several earthquakes have struck the region this week, including two more Friday near the California-Mexico border. The first quake struck at 11:31 a.m. Friday in an area about 16 miles south of Mexicali, a …

ORANGEBURG, S.C. – The South Carolina Highway Patrol says a trooper responding to a wreck on Interstate 26 near Orangeburg died when his vehicle skidded off a wet road and slammed into a utility pole. Patrol spokesman Sid Gaulden says Lance Corporal James Haynes was driving early Friday on state …

PETALUMA, Calif. – Beginner’s luck has turned a California woman into a millionaire. After playing the lottery for the first time, Elba Escamilla of Petaluma, Calif., discovered she had won the $80 million jackpot, state lottery officials said. Escamilla bought the winning ticket last week, but didn’t check the numbers …

CHICAGO – Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year’s massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what were already some of the nation’s toughest weapons laws. But the new measure does not take effect until June. And …

BATON ROUGE, La. – A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students with a .357 revolver in a classroom at a vocational college Friday, then committed suicide, police said. The women apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Baton Rouge Sgt. Don Kelly said. …

Doctors successfully removed a 2-inch nail from an Indian man’s genitals after he admitted himself to a hospital due to abdominal pain and the inability to speak, the Bahrain Gulf Daily News reported Wednesday. An X-ray of the man, who was not identified, showed the nail lodged in his urethra. …

WASHINGTON – President Bush lobbied the House again on Wednesday to pass an intelligence law allowing government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists. Failure to renew the expired law is “inexcusable” and “indefensible,” Bush said. “There is still an extremist threat,” Bush said. “People still want to …

Turning yourself on with some tongue action is nothing new. But can what you put in your mouth truly affect your sex life? For centuries, humans have been fascinated by supposed links between certain substances and one’s sex drive, sexual performance and sexual desire. Yet only recently we’ve really been …