Tories child poverty solution: redefine what child poverty is

With 3.6 million children growing up in poverty, the Tories have stumbled on an ingenious solution: they will redefine what child poverty is. "It's not all about money," a government of millionaires lectures the...

JK Rowling to Testify in Phone Hacking Enquiry

JK Rowling Given 'Core Participant' Status in Phone Hacking Hearings The News International phone hacking scandal now involves Harry Potter. Has the phone hacking scandal gotten your attention again? Good. Harry...

Clive Goodman Letter Crushes NOTW Phone Hacking Alibi

Phone Hacking Scandal: Clive Goodman Says Entire Staff Knew A four-year-old letter written by disgraced News of the World Royals correspondent Clive Goodman has torpedoes NOTW's claim that the senior staff didn't...

Rebekah Brooks Parliament Hearing: Watch Live

Rebekah Brooks in Parliament over Murdoch Scandal As Rupert and James Murdoch finish what passes as testimony, former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks takes her seat and begins fielding questions. Watch live via...

Murdoch Scandal: Watch Parliament Hearings Live

Watch Rupert Murdoch & James Murdoch Questioned at Parliament over Phone Hacking Scandal Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch are answering questions at Parliament regarding the phone hacking and bribery scandal that...

LulzSec Hacks The Sun, Posts Fake Rupert Murdoch Death Report

Hacking the Phone Hackers: LulzSec Targets News International LulzSec is not dead. The hacker group has targeted The Sun, redirecting the UK tabloid's visitors to a fake Rupert Murdoch death report, crashing the...

Sean Hoare: NOTW Whistleblower Found Dead

Sean Hoare Found Dead Sean Hoare, former reporter for News of the World, has been found dead. Sean Hoare was the original whistleblower on the phone hacking scandal. Sean Hoare had been fired from News of the World...

Fox News and the NOTW Phone Hacking Scandal

Fox News: Strange Coverage of Phone Hacking Scandal Fox News is doing a cartoonishly bad job of covering the NOTW phone hacking story, trotting out an "expert" who apparently does not understand who hacked whom, nor...

Rebekah Brooks Resigns as News International CEO

Rebekah Brooks Escapes News International News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has resigned; this was not her first attempt to do so. Tom Mockridge, former CEO of SkyItalia (a Murdoch property), will be taking...

FBI Opens 9/11 Victims Phone Hacking Investgation

News Corp. to Face FBI Probe over Phone Hacking The phone hacking scandal, which sank NOTW and is threatening the rest of Rupert Murdoch's UK papers, has drawn FBI attention. Following calls from the American media...

Rupert Murdoch Drops BSkyB Bid as Phone Hack Investigation Looms

Rupert Murdoch Withdraws BSkyB Takeover Bid as Phone Hacking Scandal Grows News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch has withdrawn his $12 billion bid to take over BSkyB, as the UK Parliament rallies against him. Even Murdoch's...

Rupert Murdoch Summoned to Parliament over Phone Hacking

Phone Hacking Scandal: Rupert Murdoch Called Before Parliament As the phone hacking scandal engulfs The Sunday Times and The Sun as well as the recently-shuttered News of the World, News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch has...

Gordon Brown Hacked by Sun, Sunday Times, NOTW: What is Blagging?

News International Targets Gordon Brown Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused News International, whose News of the World was sunk in the phone hacking scandal, of stealing personal information from him and his family. Those records were attained either by...

News of the World Closing in Wake of Phone Hacking Scandal

James Murdoch: News International to Shut Down News of the World James Murdoch announced that News of the World, the British tabloid at the center of the phone hacking scandal, is shutting down. Murdoch didn't have...

An Al Gore Moment?

"If I had read this story wrong I think I could be of the thinking that Rupert Murdoch invented football – but that isn’t the case, Rupert Murdoch brought about the modern game! Which – when you read that right means that he invented the modern game. Which – in a very...

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