The Alabama biology professor accused of killing three colleagues in a campus shooting was working on a novel that contained eerie similarities to her own life. Amy Bishop, charged with opening fire Friday at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, had an unpublished manuscript for a book titled “Amazon Fever,” …

Hosted by Oliver North “Knowledge is power,” wrote the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. And that’s the essence of what spying is all about, attaining information, and therefore, power over an adversary. During World War II, the Abwehr, Germany’s intelligence service, made numerous attempts to infiltrate the United States with …

KEENE, Calif. – A freight train has derailed near Bakersfield and one of its cars caught fire and forced the evacuation of several nearby homes. Kern County Fire Department spokesman Sean Collins says there were no serious injuries in the derailment at 9:30 p.m. Saturday near Keene, a small town …

SEATTLE – Coffee chain Starbucks Corp. is sticking to its policy of letting customers carry guns where it’s legal and said it does not want to be put in the middle of a larger gun-control debate. The company’s statement, issued Wednesday, stems from recent campaign by some gun owners, who …

The Roman Catholic Church in France is objecting to a new pay telephone line set up to receive people’s confessions, AFP reported. The phone line, called “Le Fil du Seigneur,” or “The Line of the Lord,” was set up at the start of the Christian fasting period of Lent by …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” May 17, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: And now to Arizona, where things are getting hotter. The illegal immigration fight is still blazing hot, and now …

Scientists have found that vitamin D influences more than 200 genes, including ones related to cancer and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis — a discovery that shows how serious vitamin D deficiency can be. Worldwide, an estimated one billion people are deficient in vitamin D, and a team of scientists …

This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” April 5, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: The Anointed One is known for his eloquence. But at a town hall event in North Carolina he came up against a simple question …

Genes that make women more susceptible to breast cancer don’t have any link to lifestyle factors that also raise their risk, a new study says. Some experts previously thought there might be dangerous interactions between breast cancer mutations and other risk factors for the disease, like taking hormone replacement therapy …

Johnson & Johnson is expected to outline for U.S. regulators on Thursday a strategy to fix quality-control problems that have led to repeated recalls of Tylenol and other consumer medicines since last year. Analysts say the so-called action plan could give clues to whether J&J can resume full production by …