NEW YORK – As his final evening newscast approaches on Wednesday, Dan Rather (search) is seeing the indignities pile up as quickly as the roses that were tossed in the path of Tom Brokaw (search) when the NBC anchorman stepped down late last year. The latest came in a New …

NEW YORK – A deadly explosion at BP’s (search) huge refinery near Galveston, Texas, will open up the world’s second biggest oil company to liabilities that could run into the billions of dollars, experts said Thursday. The blast at the 71-year-old refinery killed at least 15 people and severely damaged …

WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (search) issued a fresh call to Congress Tuesday to move promptly to put Social Security on firm financial footing, warning that doing nothing would lead to massive budget deficits and cause the “economy to stagnate or worse.” Greenspan, in prepared remarks to the …

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This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” March 9, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Habla Ingles, por favor. So far, 27 states have made English their official language. Now there’s a push on Capitol Hill to make it the national …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday affirmed it will dismantle 24 illegal West Bank (search) settlement outposts but did not say when they will be removed and evaded a decision on the fate of 81 other such enclaves. The decision fell short of U.S. and Palestinian demands for a speedy …

WASHINGTON – Three Cuban dissidents addressed a congressional committee by telephone from Havana on Thursday, praising President Bush’s policies and denouncing Fidel Castro (search). It was testimony that could land dissidents back in a prison where they all had once served time, lawmakers said. One asked if the dissidents feared …

WASHINGTON – To get larger college grants (search) to poor students, the Bush administration wants to shrink guaranteed aid to banks and end a popular loan program. President Bush’s budget will also propose raising federal loan limits for freshman and sophomore college students, Education Department officials told The Associated Press …

JERUSALEM – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search), a football fan, found time in her busy schedule of international diplomacy to watch a little of the Super Bowl (search). Rice, midway through an eight-day trip to Europe (search) and the Middle East, spent Super Bowl Sunday in Jerusalem, a third …

China’s top lawmakers want to make it a crime for doctors to detect an unborn baby’s sex for non-medical reasons, in a bid to combat the abortion of female fetuses, government-run newspapers reported Sunday. It is already illegal in China to use an ultrasound or other means determine if a …