BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will activate the National Guard to help with security at Logan International Airport for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The security alert was raised at Logan and airports around the nation early Thursday after officials in Great Britain disrupted a …

WASHINGTON – The beleaguered Iraq reconstruction effort was beset by problems from the very start and is also hampered by a long pattern of corruption in the country, a new report finds. For several months before the war, government agencies didn’t consult each other on what they were doing because …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Reigning American Idol Taylor Hicks has settled a lawsuit he brought against a Nashville producer over the rights to three songs he wrote and recorded before becoming a TV phenom. Hicks gained possession of the master recordings of the songs under the deal, revealed Tuesday in documents …

VIENNA, Austria – The young woman who endured 8 1/2 years in captivity has adopted a “reserved attitude” toward her parents since her dramatic escape from her kidnapper last week, psychologists treating her said Thursday. Experts who have been meeting with 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch since she bolted to freedom on …

MIAMI – A federal judge denied bond Wednesday to six men accused of plotting to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and conspiring to help Al Qaeda attack several federal buildings. The six, who have pleaded not guilty, were arrested June 22 in Miami as part of an undercover FBI sting. …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” July 19, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. 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: “Back of the Book” segment tonight, this story may not be …

DALLAS – Whether she’s convicted of murder in the bathtub drownings of her young children or acquitted by reason of insanity, Andrea Yates will likely spend the rest of her life as a prisoner. If jurors agree with her plea of innocent by reason of insanity, Yates would be sent …

NEW YORK – An elusive former strongman from Haiti, accused of sanctioning rape to silence dissent there in the early 1990s, has been arrested in a mortgage fraud scheme on Long Island, authorities said. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, 49, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of grand larceny, forgery …

MUMBAI, India – The death toll from a series of bombs that struck Mumbai‘s packed commuter trains rose Wednesday to 200, and India demanded that Pakistan dismantle the “infrastructure of terrorism” but leveled no direct accusation at its rival for the attacks. The number of dead in the eight near-simultaneous …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” July 27, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. 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: “Unresolved problem” segment tonight, profiteering during a time of war. Most …