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This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” February 28, 2008. 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: “Factor follow-up” segment tonight, …

BIG SPRING, Texas – A thunderous explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday, injuring four workers and shaking buildings miles away. One employee was hospitalized for burns, while the others were treated and released, said Blake Lewis, a spokesman for refinery owner Alon USA. All workers were accounted for about an …

NASSAU, Bahamas – Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-companion recalled her in worshipful terms Friday at a memorial in the Bahamas, the island nation that became the center of a bitter custody dispute when the reality TV star died in Florida a year earlier. Howard K. Stern, speaking to dozens of people …

VIENNA, Austria – Iran’s new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The diplomats emphasized that the centrifuges were working with minute amounts of the uranium …

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian rocket slammed into a college campus in this southern Israeli town on Wednesday, killing a student, and another exploded near a hospital in a coastal city farther away, raising the likelihood of a new wave of fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in neighboring Gaza. …

Facebook, the Internet social-networking site, has mobilized hundreds of thousands of Colombians to protest the country’s most powerful rebel group, the Christian Science Monitor reported Sunday. According to the report, a grassroots movement against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) emerged on Facebook as young people vented their anger …

KISSUFIM CROSSING, Israel – Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army jeep patrolling the Gaza border, then attacked a rescue crew that rushed to the scene, killing one soldier and wounding three in a brazen cross-border attack, according to military and witness accounts. The attack raised the possibility of a fresh …

BOSTON – A student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died after apparently falling from the fifth floor of his fraternity house. Police say they were called to 526 Beacon Street in Boston at about 5:45 on Saturday morning, where they found the victim on the ground. He was pronounced …

LONDON – Britain investigated 400 cases of forced marriages last year and is looking into whether 30 girls who have vanished from school registers may have been taken out of schools and forced to marry, officials said Tuesday. The highest incidence of reported forced marriages is in Muslim communities, figures …

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael Mukasey will argue a case before the Supreme Court this month, honoring a custom that his two predecessors ignored. Mukasey will be the first attorney general since Janet Reno in 1996 to represent the government at the high court. Neither John Ashcroft nor Alberto Gonzales, …