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This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” July 1, 2009. 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! JUAN WILLIAMS, GUEST HOST: In the “Impact” segment tonight: Is the liberal media …

It seems Jessica Simpson got an unwanted birthday present for her 29th Friday – according to People magazine, boyfriend Tony Romo broke up with her the night before. A source close to the singer, 29, told People that she was “heartbroken” at the news. “She loves Tony. But it’s been …

GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend a U.N. anti-racism conference starting in Geneva next week, the United Nations said Tuesday. The addition of Ahmadinejad to the speakers adds to fears by some Western countries that the conference could be diverted by Muslim countries into a verbal attack on …

WELLINGTON, Fla. – The sudden death of 21 polo horses in Florida may have been caused by a toxin that has yet to be identified by tests and could have been in the animals’ feed, vitamins or supplements, veterinarians said Monday. The horses from the Venezuelan-owned team Lechuza Caracas sickened …

Retailers, marketers and online scammers are finding a way to cash in on the swine flu craze with fashionable surgical masks, iPhone flu tracking applications, test kits and even bogus survival kits and vaccines. The Better Business Bureau said that already 2 percent of all spam is about swine flu …

PHOENIX – Two people who died after sitting in an Arizona resort’s sauna-like sweat lodge were identified Saturday as a 40-year-old Wisconsin man and a 38-year-old New York woman. James Shore of Milwaukee and Kirby Brown of Westtown, N.Y. died Thursday night after being overcome in a sweat lodge during …

Based on the rhetoric, America’s war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation’s readiness to turn the talk into reality. The economic case for expanding treatment, especially amid a …

Apparently everyone’s pissed about the health care bill, but in a scary kind of way. Now we’ve been here before and it goes like this: For the media, anger is only OK if it’s targeted at people they hate, i.e. corporations, conservatives, the daddy who never loved them, etc. For …

Efforts to overhaul the U.S. food safety system could suffer unless major gaps in state and local programs are repaired and integrated with changes taking place in Washington, experts said on Friday. State and local agencies have difficulty preventing and responding to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses because of chronic underfunding, …

DETROIT – Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA will sign paperwork to become a partner with Chrysler LLC by Thursday, according to three people briefed on the deal. The partnership is the last piece of a huge restructuring plan needed to keep Chrysler alive as it approaches Thursday’s government deadline to …