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This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from January 21, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT OBAMA: The executive orders and directives I’m issuing today will not by themselves make government as honest and …

NEW YORK – As Capt. Brittany Catanzaro eased her commuter ferry, the Thomas Kean, into the Hudson River, she saw an eye-popping sight: a US Airways jet, bobbing on the tide. “I couldn’t believe it,” said the 20-year-old, a captain for just five months. “But we train for man-overboard situations. …

SEATTLE – There were no immediate reports of damage from a 4.5-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Seattle and Puget Sound area early Friday, but it woke a lot of people up. The quake at 5:25 a.m. was centered 14 miles northwest of Seattle near Kingston, in Kitsap County. The U.S. …

GREENWOOD, Miss. – State health officials are investigating an incident at a Pizza Hut in Greenwood after 19 members of a church group become ill. Officials with St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church of Itta Bena says the church members became ill Sunday. Twenty-five to 30 church members had stopped to …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A missing 35-year-old mother of three may be a victim of foul play, Kansas City police said. Renee Pernice was last seen by her husband Friday morning. The Kansas City Star reported Tuesday that Pernice’s cell phone was found Saturday in northeast Kansas City, and that …

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A blizzard shut down major highways Monday in Wyoming and South Dakota, and meteorologists said one mountainous area might get as much as 40 inches of snow. Mount Rushmore National Memorial closed because of the icy, blinding weather in South Dakota’s rugged Black Hills. Temperature plummeted as …

Doctors are failing to diagnose HIV in older patients, who are exposed to greater risk of infection as erectile dysfunction drugs extend their sex lives, a study published by the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The report in the WHO Bulletin found that increasing numbers of sexually active people …

Procter & Gamble’s Intrinsa testosterone patches appear to not do much to boost a woman’s sex drive after menopause and their long-term safety is unclear, a review found on Tuesday. Intrinsa is licensed for use in Europe but not in the United States where, in 2004, regulators voted against approving …

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – A Connecticut town is suing disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, his family and two investment companies after allegedly losing millions of pension dollars in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Click here for photos. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Bridgeport Superior Court by the town of Fairfield and its pension …

CINCINNATI – A former morgue worker already in prison for having sex with a woman’s body has pleaded not guilty to two more charges of sexually abusing corpses. Fifty-five-year-old Kenneth Douglas entered the plea Tuesday. He is being held on $50,000 bond at the county jail in Cincinnati until the …