WARSAW, Poland – Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial, has died. Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated Press her mother died at a Warsaw hospital Monday morning. She …

BEICHUAN, China – Stunned survivors huddled in makeshift shelters lining the mountain road into one of the remotest corners of China’s earthquake zone, as troops marched by Friday to find scenes of utter devastation. Buildings not flattened or toppled into piles of smoking debris in Beichuan county were left tilting …

LOS ANGELES – The jury deciding the federal racketeering case against Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants has gone home for the day without reaching a verdict and will resume deliberations on Monday. Friday marks the first full day of deliberations for the panel that got the case …

BEIJING – China’s Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday in a bid to control a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading. Health bureaus around the country must step up monitoring for hand, foot and mouth disease following a …

WASHINGTON – While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists say. Tropical species are accustomed to living in a small temperature range and thus may be unable to cope with changes of even …

SACRAMENTO – A nuclear engineer from Northern California has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for sending threatening letters, including to President Bush. Prosecutors say Michael Lee Braun mailed nearly 60 letters over a five-year period after the 2001 terrorist attacks. First Lady Laura Bush and …

ROME – Police say a family in southern Italy kept a woman locked in a room in their house for 18 years because they were angry she was pregnant out of wedlock. Police say they freed the woman, now 47, on Friday in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The ANSA news …

WASHINGTON – As a trusted adviser to a member of United Arab Emirates royal family, Texas businessman Bassam Nabulsi says he safeguarded the sheik’s most important documents: financial records, investment documents, and videotapes showing the sheik torturing people with a cattle prod and a spiked plank. When the business relationship …

This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” June 6, 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!” LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: In the “Impact” …

SALT LAKE CITY – Sadie and Pyper Vance have had just about enough of high gas prices. The sisters are still years away from being old enough to drive, but that doesn’t mean the $4 per gallon price tag isn’t hitting them as hard as anyone else. Cable TV was …