Fact Sheet: Financing Assistance to Facilitate the Restructuring of Automobile Manufacturers to Attain Financial Viability Purpose: The terms and conditions of the financing provided by the Treasury Department will facilitate restructuring of our domestic auto industry, prevent disorderly bankruptcies during a time of economic difficulty, and protect the taxpayer by …

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Comedian Al Franken grabbed the Democratic nomination Tuesday for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, setting up a showdown with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman that had been years in the making. Franken, who gained fame as a “Saturday Night Live” cast member, easily beat six other candidates chasing …

CHICAGO – Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly 70,000 children simply found even lower levels of activity among immigrants. …

ATLANTA – Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a startling diagnosis: He has cancer. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that he has testicular cancer. His doctors cleared him to compete …

LEESBURG, Ga. – A Georgia teen is facing child cruelty charges after an online video showed a young man launching a baby several feet across a room using an inflatable pillow. The video posted on YouTube shows the boy putting a baby on one side of a large yellow pillow …

HOUSTON – A tracking dog apparently stepped on a loaded shotgun in the bed of his owner’s pickup truck, firing a fatal blast into the man’s thigh during a goose hunt, officials said. Perry Alvin Price III died Saturday at a hospital from severe blood loss from his femoral artery …

Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned Thursday night after his government lost a risky Senate confidence vote. The center-left government fell four votes short of the 160 needed for victory. The vote was 161-156. Elected in April 2006, Prodi has had a shaky government from nearly the start. But it lurched …

LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched his re-election campaign Saturday, appealing to voters with a promise that only the Labour Party can help the dismal economy recover without major cuts to social programs. In a speech focused on the economy and social equality, Brown said his governing party …

UNITED NATIONS – Sixteen countries have offered to provide the 3,500 extra troops and police officers that the United Nations requested to beef up security in Haiti and ensure aid is delivered to earthquake victims, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. A week after the Jan. 12 quake devastated the …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” March 9, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A former FBI agent is still missing. He vanished during a trip to Iran. His wife and daughter are …