This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from September 16, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The top of our economy is broken, and we have seen self interest, greed, …

WASHINGTON – Nervously eyeing the markets’ next trading session, key lawmakers in both parties and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson worked late into the night Saturday trying to close an agreement on a multibillion-dollar government bailout of distressed financial companies. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters “quite a bit” of …

NEW YORK – Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was amused by Tina Fey’s impression of her on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” especially as she once dressed up as Fey for Halloween. “She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween,” …

ABC News reported Friday that former Sen. John Edwards admited in an interview to having an affair with a campaign staff member and lied about it during his presidential candidacy. It’s hardly the first sex scandal in American political history: 1802 — Affair is rumored between President Thomas Jefferson and …

SACHKHERE, Georgia – Russian forces dug trenches and built sentry posts deep inside Georgia on Wednesday, showing few signs they would pull back later this week as promised. Georgian soldiers suggested the Russians were trying to provoke them and justify a resumption of the conflict, which over five days pounded …

SEDALIA, Mo. – An 8-year-old blind girl who is undergoing stem cell treatments in China can now see colors, her family says. Savannah Watring, of Syracuse, flew to China with her father, Brent Watring; grandmother RaVana Watring; and aunt Shonna Millsap on July 23 and has received four treatments, with …

Flies can anticipate and elude the swats of humans, a new study has found. Within milliseconds, fruit flies can alter their body position to be properly prepared to jump in the direction of safety as an object hurtles toward them, the study by Michael Dickinson of the California Institute of …

SAN FRANCISCO – One of two brothers who survived a tiger attack at San Francisco Zoo has been sentenced to 16 months in state prison for violating probation in a felony reckless driving case. In December, Paul Dhaliwal was sentenced to 30 days in Santa Clara County jail and three …

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia – Ten years after the death of brutal Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, his cremation site has become a symbol of spiritual comfort to some in the village where he died. Villagers pray at the site, asking for blessings of luck, happiness and even protection from malaria …

A Jacksonville, Fla., television station has obtained documents detailing Jaguars cornerback Brian Williams’ racist rant to police the night he was arrested in September 2006 on suspicion of DUI, News 4 Jax reported. The police officer involved wrote in a report that Williams called him “Honky mother (expletive),” and said, …