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NEW YORK – E.L. Doctorow’s (search) “The March,” (search) his novelization of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s bloody Civil War campaign, and Joan Didion’s (search) “The Year of Magical Thinking,” (search) her memoir of grieving her late husband, were among the nominees announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards (search). Two …

CHICAGO – UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) Friday reported a 21 percent rise in third-quarter earnings on membership gains and lower-than-expected medical costs. The health insurer, the nation’s largest by market capitalization, forecast strong profit growth would continue through 2006 at a clip of at least 15 percent. UnitedHealth, whose shares …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration promised Monday to work with whoever emerges as Germany’s new leader and to repair past difficulties between the two countries. At a ceremony on the 15th anniversary of German reunification, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns recalled differences with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (search) over the U.S. …

WASHINGTON – A leader of the Official Irish Republican Army (search) has been indicted in the United States on charges he conspired with North Korea (search) to circulate millions of dollars in phony U.S. currency, prosecutors said. The indictment of Sean Garland, 71, and six other men by a federal …

WICHITA, Kan. – Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline on Tuesday sued two Massachusetts psychologists hired by a state agency to interview BTK serial killer Dennis Rader (search) before his sentencing, accusing the psychologists and their company of profiting from a videotape of a session with the man who terrorized Wichita …

See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… The heat is on! Is the prime suspect in the Natalee Holloway (search) mystery close to cracking? How is Joran van der Sloot’s (search) changing story effecting the …

MARTINEZ, Calif. – Nanny Jimena Barreto (search) was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison after being convicted last month of murder in the hit-and-run deaths of two children. Barreto, 46, got down on her knees and sobbed as she read a two-page letter expressing her remorse for …

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen (search) watched from a wheelchair Monday as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the civil rights era — the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers. The case against the 80-year-old Killen represents …

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was taken from court on a stretcher and hospitalized with high blood pressure Thursday, the opening day of testimony at his murder trial in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Edgar Ray Killen (search) was taken away in an …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” June 8, 2005, 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, a big new movie starring …