This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from February 10, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ayes are 61. The nays are 37. H.R.-1 as amended passes. SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER, D-N.Y.: To …
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A bird suspected to be extinct was reportedly photographed for the first time in the Philippines, and then sold to a poultry market as food. Worcester’s buttonquail was known only through illustrations based on decades-old museum specimens until a television crew documented the live bird in the market before it …
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Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip says Israeli planes have attacked smuggling tunnels around the Gaza-Egypt border and a disused Hamas security base near the town of Khan Younis. The Hamas base had already been largely reduced to rubble in previous attacks since the Jan. 18 end of Israel’s land …
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – North Carolina police are looking for a soldier missing since early Tuesday and for the man who used his debit card later that day. Police said 22-year-old Spc. Joseph E. Putnam last was seen at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday at a Bragg Boulevard convenience store in Fayetteville. Police …
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NEW YORK – A 33-year-old man announced his suicide on his Facebook page hours before he apparently hung himself from a tree in a Brooklyn park. Paul Zolezzi was found by transit police at about 7 a.m. Friday in a small park in Brooklyn near the Botanical Gardens. Police say …
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WASHINGTON – The length of a man’s ring finger may predict his success as a financial trader. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England report that men with longer ring fingers, compared to their index fingers, tended to be more successful in the frantic high-frequency trading in the London …
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GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. – A climber has died on Mount Hood after she was hit by large chunks of falling ice and she fell about 400 feet down the mountain. Clackamas County sheriff’s detective Jim Strovink identified her as 31-year-old Brooke Colvin of Portland. The accident occurred Wednesday morning at …
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LONDON – A British biotechnology company, working with a team of doctors in Scotland, is to launch a pioneering clinical trial to assess whether stem cell therapy can help patients left disabled by stroke. ReNeuron Group Plc said on Sunday it had received approval from the UK Medicines and Healthcare …
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NEW YORK – A college student who managed the prostitution ring that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison. Cecil Suwal, 24, of New York, cried as she apologized and asked for mercy from U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones. “It …
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The irony of Liz Lange’s situation was not lost on her. During the summer of 2001, Lange, founder and president of Liz Lange Maternity, was told she had cervical cancer and would need a hysterectomy. That meant she would no longer have the opportunity to wear any of the maternity …
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