This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” April 7, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Maybe he’s better than he once was. Country superstar Toby Keith is ready to rock the charts with a new CD. He’s kicking off a big …

NEW YORK – Stocks tumbled Tuesday as strength in the commodities market fed inflation fears and stifled investors’ enthusiasm over upbeat first-quarter earnings from Dow Jones industrial Alcoa Inc. (AA). Although Alcoa’s better-than-expected profit gave Wall Street confidence about the upcoming earnings season — which kicks into full swing next …

ST. PETER, Minn. – A rapist who broke out of a state treatment center here along with three other men remained on the lam Sunday, authorities said. Michael Dale Benson, 42, squeezed through a broken window Saturday night with the three others, who were later caught. Police continued to search …

DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two cars in Gaza packed with rockets on Thursday, killing one Islamic Jihad militant and critically wounding another, the Israeli army and Palestinian officials said. The militants were on their way to fire a barrage of homemade rockets at Israeli …

TOLUCA, Mexico – A Mexican priest has confessed to strangling his pregnant lover after Easter Mass and cutting her body into pieces, a state attorney general said Wednesday. The Rev. Cesar Torres, 42, admitted killing the 22-year-old woman at his parish on Mexico City‘s eastern outskirts, Mexico state Attorney General …

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York’s attorney general sued another Internet pop-up advertising company Tuesday, accusing it of secretly installing malicious programs on personal computers and sending ads through “spyware” that is already installed. Eliot Spitzer said Direct Revenue LLC has installed millions of pop-up ad programs that also monitor the …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Rush Limbaugh and prosecutors in the long-running painkiller fraud case against him have reached a deal calling for the only charge against the conservative commentator to be dropped if he continues treatment, his attorney said Friday. Limbaugh was booked on a single charge that was …

WASHINGTON – For all the hand-wringing on Capitol Hill about larding bills with homestate projects, the latest report from a taxpayer group says lawmakers hit a record last year. Citizens Against Government Waste, in its annual “Pig Book” released Wednesday, details $29 billion of what it calls pork-barrel spending. For …

HOUSTON – Enron Corp. former Chairman Ken Lay and former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling are set to go on trial on Monday for charges linked to the financial scandal that brought the company down in 2001. The following are key facts about the two defendants: KENNETH LEE LAY —Born April …

LONDON – Anti-terrorist police arrested a 27-year-old man Tuesday for allegedly helping the suspected attackers after the failed bombings on London’s transit network this summer, authorities said. Police raided two homes and a business in western London after the man was detained at 11:40 a.m., a spokesman for London’s Metropolitan …