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This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” June 17, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Congress is putting pressure on President Bush to come up with a timetable for getting out of Iraq. The Bush administration says that’s a really bad …

WASHINGTON – First lady Laura Bush (search) will travel to Africa next month to talk about education, the battle against HIV/ AIDS and women’s rights, the White House announced Tuesday. Mrs. Bush will leave for Africa from Scotland, where President Bush is attending the G-8 meeting (search) of leading industrialized …

PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid for a gag order by Bill Cosby’s (search) lawyers in a lawsuit alleging that the entertainer drugged and sexually molested a woman. Judge Eduardo Robreno also denied a motion by the plaintiff’s attorneys to keep secret the names of other …

NEW YORK – Some quotes on the verdict in the Michael Jackson molestation case Monday: “I would never have married a pedophile. And the system works.” — Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe, in a statement given to “Entertainment Tonight.” “We the jury, feeling the weight of the world’s eyes upon us, …

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MOSCOW – Taking aim at the United States, Russia’s defense minister Thursday threatened retaliatory steps if any country puts weapons in space and said Moscow won’t negotiate controls over tactical nuclear arms with nations that deploy them abroad, Russian media reported. While he mentioned no country by name, Defense Minister …

WASHINGTON – Reversing course, the Bush administration said Thursday it is prepared to support a third term for the head of the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency. Last December, the administration called upon Mohamed ElBaradei (search) to step down after his term ends this summer. Differences over Iran (search) and also …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Louisiana woman is suing the Applebee’s (search) restaurant chain — a year after she allegedly found a human fingertip in her salad, echoing a similar but now-discredited claim against fast-food chain Wendy’s. May Deal Chambers Johnson (search) of Jefferson Parish, La., filed suit late Friday …

WASHINGTON – Bradford Lum is Irish, Dutch, German and Chinese, but it’s the three-eighths of Hawaiian blood running through his veins that matters to him most. That is why Lum and his mother, Lily, entered their names with the Native Hawaiian Registration Program, a database of people with documented proof …

WASHINGTON – Canada’s ambassador predicted Monday that the United States would drop a controversial proposal that would require all travelers to show passports (search) in order to cross the long border between the neighboring nations. Discussions with the Bush administration, which introduced guidelines to crack down on potential terrorist travel …