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FILE - This is a Nov. 29, 2006 file photo shows Glenn Mulcaire the private investigator at the centre of Britain phone hacking scandal . News Corp. said Wednesday July 20, 2011 it had now terminated legal payments to Mulcaire a day after Murdoch told lawmakers in a special parliamentary committee hearing that he would try to find a way to stop the payments. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA, File)

News Corp ends legal fees for hacking investigator

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 4:24pm

LONDON — News Corp. says it has terminated legal payments to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator implicated in the phone hacking scandal roiling Britain's establishment.

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Rupert Murdoch is driven away from News International headquarters in Wapping, east London, Friday July 15, 2011. Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's loyal lieutenant resigned as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers - the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal rocking Britain. As Brooks departed, James Murdoch signaled a new strategy for dealing with the storm which has knocked billions off the value of News Corp., scuttled its ambitions of taking full control of lucrative British Sky Broadcasting and radically changed the power balance between British politicians and the feared Murdoch press.(AP Photo/Lewis Whyld-pa)

Hacking scandal casts light on Murdoch's politics

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 15, 2011 - 9:34am

WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch is a political kingmaker in Britain and his native Australia. In the United States, he's best known for promoting conservative opinion through media properties like the Fox News Channel. And in China, he's primarily a businessman working to give his News Corp. empire a toehold in that country's tightly controlled media market.

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FILE -- Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, in this Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 file photo. Brooks has resigned from her position according to News International sources Friday July 15 2011, as the company reels from a series of crises. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

Embattled News Intl CEO Rebekah Brooks resigns

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 15, 2011 - 9:26am

LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's loyal lieutenant, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a now-defunct Sunday tabloid.

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In this image from a BBC television interview aired Tuesday July 12 2011, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during an interview. Brown on Tuesday accused Rupert Murdoch's newspapers of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family, his private financial affairs and the lives of ordinary people who were at "rock bottom." Brown's furious denunciation of the politically powerful News International papers came a day after questions were raised about how The Sun newspaper obtained confidential information in 2006 that Brown's infant son Fraser had cystic fibrosis. (AP Photo/BBC)

Ex-PM Brown alleges Murdoch paper used criminals

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 10:21am

LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday accused Rupert Murdoch's newspapers of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family, his private financial affairs and the lives of ordinary people who were at "rock bottom."

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Long-buried history, water-saving advance shows up at library

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 10:28pm

I rarely become emotional about computer software, but the new newspaper search tool at the Weber County Library has me weeping with joy.

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Utah then and Utah now are two different worlds

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, May 30, 2011 - 10:30pm

I was going to be cute and say I'd found this amazing country where the residents all believe in self-sacrifice and pitching in.

It's a country where people work together for the common good, even at great personal sacrifice. For example, there's a war on and people are told that any waste at all takes something away from the boys at the front, so nobody wastes.

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Standard-Examiner finding new ways to collect, present news

Andy Howell Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 9:24am

Are you a mother who looks like your daughter?

Did a wind gust blow over a tree in your yard?

Has your basement been flooded by recent storms?

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White House threatens to block newspaper's access

Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 2:02pm

WASHINGTON -- The White House threatened Thursday to exclude The San Francisco Chronicle from pooled coverage of its events in the Bay Area after the paper posted a video of a protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama last week, Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee said.

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