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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” November 17, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Could Senator Clinton soon be Secretary of State Clinton? Senator Clinton met with President-elect Obama to talk about …

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Britain’s foreign policy chief said Monday that Iran’s nuclear program presents an immediate threat to the Middle East and the rest of the world. The comments by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband come a few days after a report by the International Atomic Energy …

WASHINGTON – The international system for tracking and cutting off terrorist financing has achieved major successes but is fraying seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, two former Treasury Department officials report. Some U.S. allies in the fight against terrorism pose the weakest links. U.N. countries froze the assets of …

Another notable name is joining Barack Obama’s Cabinet — former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will be Health and Human Services secretary pending Senate confirmation, FOX News learned Wednesday. Daschle accepted the offer, according to two Democratic sources close to Daschle and with intimate knowledge of the decision. Daschle had …

Two major pharmacies in New York have agreed to translate prescription drug instructions to customers’ primary languages in more than 2,000 stores statewide. In agreements with the state Attorney General’s Office, the chains CVS and Rite-Aid, which also owns Eckerd and Genovese pharmacies, say they will counsel and provide written …

LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta – Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month. University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan …

LOS ANGELES – Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds, 2 ounces. A statement released Saturday says Presley …

WASHINGTON – Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is an honorable, trusting man who was taken advantage of by a corrupt friend who provided expensive gifts, not the architect of a “master cover-up by a sinister senator,” as portrayed by prosecutors at his corruption trial, his lawyer argued Tuesday. The Justice Department …

WASHINGTON – The government sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year and offered this explanation Thursday for the bad checks in the mail: The Internal Revenue Service has too few resources to pursue every tax fraud case. IRS investigators never even looked at an estimated $742 …

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – China’s Olympic gold medal gymnasts at the Beijing Games were old enough to compete but the team that won the bronze medal in Sydney eight years ago still faces questions, the international gymnastics federation said Wednesday. The FIG closed the Beijing case after a 5 1/2-week investigation …