SAN FRANCISCO – Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections. The Associated Press has learned the change will become effective Monday, on the eve …

DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic and sexually oriented text messages with a top aide, contradicting their denials in court that they had romantic ties, the Detroit Free Press reports. In a story on its Web site Wednesday night, the newspaper quotes from exchanges between Kilpatrick and chief …

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a Muslim inmate cannot sue the government over the disappearance of the prisoner’s copies of the Koran and a prayer rug. In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said the federal law the inmate relied on prohibits lawsuits against federal corrections officers. Abdus-Shahid …

BATON ROUGE, La. – Is Katrina cough a legitimate new ailment or run-of-the-mill allergy? That’s the question that a five-year Tulane University study is designed to answer. Led by Henry Glindmeyer, a professor of pulmonary, critical-care and environmental medicine in Tulane’s medical school, researchers are keeping tabs on the respiratory …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch prosecutors say they have not found any evidence that a Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day had accomplices at Amsterdam’s airport. Prosecutors studying more than 200 hours of security camera footage also say that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab …

Danish media say the man who attacked an artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a cartoon has previously been arrested in Kenya. The Politiken newspaper reported Sunday that Danish intelligence knew the 28-year-old Somali man was held in Kenya in September for allegedly plotting an attack against U.S. Secretary …

MARJAH, Afghanistan – U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror. President Hamid Karzai urged NATO to do more to protect civilians during combat operations to secure Marjah, …

A simple test could soon identify whether women with breast cancer would benefit from certain types of treatment, The Sun reported Tuesday. Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast discovered that those with high levels of the gene FKBPL are more likely to respond to commonly-used drug tamoxifen. It is estimated …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” February 2, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Tonight: Cut off the money! Now, that’s an idea. It belongs to Republican senator Lindsey Graham. He just introduced …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 16, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There is no way in the world we will be doing an unconstitutional thing. We are the …