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VICTORVILLE, Calif. – A 6-year-old Victorville boy brought a loaded .45-caliber handgun to school and it wasn’t discovered until recess when he was sent to the campus office because of sagging pants. The gun slipped down the first-grader’s pant leg Wednesday while a school clerk was helping him put on …

NEW YORK – Mutual fund pioneer Jack Dreyfus, a master money manager whose marketing savvy helped forge Wall Street’s image in Main Street’s mind, died Friday. Dreyfus, who matched his investment prowess with penchants for interests ranging from horse breeding to crusading to curing depression, died at New York Presbyterian …

WASHINGTON – Despite halts on new foreclosures by several major lenders, the number of households threatened with losing their homes rose 30 percent in February from last year’s levels, RealtyTrac reported Thursday. Nationwide, nearly 291,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice last month, up 6 percent from January, according …

KABUL – Afghanistan’s state TV says the country’s Supreme Court has ruled that President Hamid Karzai should remain in office until a new leader is chosen in a late summer election, even though the country’s constitution says his term expires May 21. The state TV announcement Sunday said the court …

A former Russian Army soldier and his accomplice have been jailed for life for murdering a Lithuanian migrant worker whose severed head was found on a British beach. The pair bound, gagged and suffocated Jolanta Bledaite after forcing her to give them access to her savings. They then chopped up …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 25, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JOHN SPRATT, D-S.C.: The budget resolution before you will not turn this big battleship all …

LONDON – British Airways has won an emergency court injunction to stop a 12-day strike by its cabin crew, bringing relief to around one million travelers whose Christmas holiday plans were threatened by the planned walkout. The High Court backed BA’s claim that the ballot of around 13,000 workers by …

ATHENS, Greece – Masked youths hurled firebombs and jagged chunks of marble at police as violence erupted during a march in Athens Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots. Police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the youths …

PAILIN, Cambodia – O’treng village doesn’t look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among a tangle of cornfields once littered with deadly land mines. Yet this spot on the …

HONOLULU – Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital after suffering chest pains and was resting comfortably Wednesday, his radio program said in a statement. “Rush was admitted to and is resting comfortably in a Honolulu hospital today after suffering chest pains,” the statement said. “Rush …