WASHINGTON – In a report aimed at the next president, security specialists are proposing a vast overhaul of the U.S. security system, which they declare is plagued by problems. The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, said frequent feuding and jurisdictional disputes among Cabinet secretaries …

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – What the …? A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music. City officials contend the bill is needed to keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area gets a little …

LOS ANGELES – Federal agents raided several Southern California museums on Thursday in search of Southeast Asian antiquities that are believed to have been illegally obtained, smuggled into the U.S. and sold at inflated prices so sellers could claim fraudulent tax deductions after donations to the institutions. Click here for …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from January 29, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Mayor Giuliani and I haven’t attacked each other. Governor Huckabee and I haven’t …

LOS ANGELES – Dennis Quaid said staff at the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center misled him while his newborn twins were being treated there, telling him the children were “fine” even as doctors scrambled to reverse a blood thinning medicine overdose. Quaid told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published …

CHICAGO – Chicago police are investigating the death of a 56-year-old man from the city’s far South Side who was apparently fatally mauled by his daughter’s pit bulls. The daughter told authorities she came home Sunday night and found her father, Johnny Wilson, lying on the living room floor, covered …

SAN DIEGO – A middle-class family of four vanishes, leaving their dogs unattended and rotting food in their San Diego County home. Their abandoned car is later found near the Mexico border. It might sound like a TV mystery, but the reality has relatives of the McStay family pleading for …

BARRE, Vt – An Iraq war veteran whose eyebrow was partially bitten off at his wedding reception in Vermont is testifying at the trial of his alleged attacker. Thirty-five-year-old Kevin Gartland, of Fayston, is accused of aggravated assault and if convicted could face 15 years in prison. Prosecutors say Gartland …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 9, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the …

MIR ALI, Pakistan – An apparent U.S. missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, two intelligence officials said. It was not immediately clear who was targeted in the strike, in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, said the officials …