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The Indian toddler who was born with eight limbs is “functioning well” eight months after surgeons removed her extra limbs, Dr. Sharan Patil told FOX News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly Tuesday night. Lakshmi Tatma was born joined at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in her mother’s womb. …

NEW YORK – Six people have been hurt, two of them seriously, when a vehicle went onto the sidewalk in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The Fire Department says some of the injured people have been taken to Bellevue Hospital. The incident happened shortly after noon. Further details were not immediately available.

WASHINGTON – Doctors have less than a week to go before the federal government starts paying them 10.6 percent less when they treat Medicare patients. With that in mind, the House overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that would void the cut and pay for it by trimming payments to private health …

MANTOLOKING, N.J. – Authorities say a surgeon chased down a gaggle of geese with his boat and killed a gosling with a rake in Ocean County. The New Jersey State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officers arrested Michael Coyle at his Mantoloking summer home Saturday. Witnesses told …

DALLAS – Dallas police are hunting a 27-year-old suspect whom they say shot a co-worker and the co-worker’s family Wednesday after arriving to pick up the co-worker for work. The suspect arrived about 7 a.m. Wednesday at the house near Interstate 20 and St. Augustine Road in far southeastern Dallas, …

SAO PAULO, Brazil – A shark ripped off the right hand of a teenager swimming along the coast of northeastern Brazil, fire department officials said Monday. Pernambuco state fire department spokesman Marcio Maia said 14-year-old Wellington dos Santos was attacked on Sunday after he swam beyond a coral reef that …

OTTO, N.Y. – A helicopter rescued nine young hikers Monday who were trapped overnight on a ledge above a rain-swollen creek. The Erie County sheriff’s helicopter brought the hikers down from the spot about 20 feet above Cattaraugus Creek in western New York, state police Sgt. Thomas Kelly said. Troopers …

This is a rush transcript from “America’s Election HQ,” June 5, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. BILL HEMMER, CO-HOST: Back now to the race for the White House. My next guest thinks that Hillary Clinton is in fantasy land. In an …

SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bulgaria’s weightlifting federation says it will withdraw its team from the Beijing Olympics after 11 lifters tested positive for a banned steroid. The federation said in a statement Friday that eight members of the men’s team and three women tested positive for the substance during out-of-competition tests …

BERLIN – Berlin’s mayor has expressed concern at Madame Tussauds’ plans to include Adolf Hitler among prominent Germans immortalized in wax at its new museum. Klaus Wowereit has written a letter to the wax museum’s curators urging them to consider carefully whether to include the Nazi dictator and, if they …