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CHICAGO – 3Com Corp. (COMS), a smaller rival of telecommunications equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Friday lowered its revenue and gross margin forecasts for its fiscal first quarter, sending its shares down more than 10 percent. Telecommunications equipment makers have been just starting to recover from a three-year slump …

JANESVILLE, Wisc. – DemocratJohn Kerry (search)wrongly questioned the credibility of the interim Iraqi leader, and “you can’t lead this country” while undercutting an ally, President Bush said Friday. Bush and interim Iraqi prime ministerAyad Allawi (search)had hopeful words for the future of Iraq a day earlier, which Kerry characterized as …

WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Gov. James E. McGreevey (search) answered questions for the first time in public Tuesday about his decision to resign, telling a supportive audience that it was “a process of transformation and prayer.” Since his Aug. 12 announcement that he was gay and planned to step down …

President Bush is trying to lasso the U.N. into Iraq, and as usual — the members of that esteemed and august body of thieves will only go if dragged kicking and screaming, their own words typed up and taped to their noses. They said they wouldn’t go unless the Iraqis …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A roadside bomb Thursday killed a U.S. Marine in theFallujah (search)area, U.S. officials said. Another Marine died of wounds suffered in a clash west ofBaghdad (search), the U.S. command said. A statement from the U.S. command said the Marine who died Wednesday was assigned to the1st Marine …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Democratic Secretary of StateJoe Manchin (search)and RepublicanMonty Warner (search), a retired Army colonel turned developer, will square off in the November election to replace Gov.Bob Wise (search). With 97 percent of the vote counted early Wednesday, Manchin had secured the Democratic nomination with 137,658 votes, or 52 …

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. – A 51-year-old man was charged with murder Friday after workmen clearing a weeded lot this week discovered human remains tentatively identified as a pregnant teenager and her 4-year-old cousin who vanished in 2005. Madison County prosecutors charged the man, Kevin Reid, on Friday with two counts of …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean police said Wednesday they had arrested a Korean-American wanted for more than a decade by the FBI for the murder of an American policeman. Police arrested David Nam at a private school where he taught English near Seoul on Tuesday, according to the Gyeonggi …

This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” February 4, 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 and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Miller Time” …

JERUSALEM – Hamas police in Gaza seized thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for needy residents, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday, threatening to fracture relations between the international agency that cares for most of Gaza’s residents and the territory’s militant rulers. Hamas policemen forcibly broke into an aid warehouse …