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  • Murdoch Reeling from Phone-Hacking Scandal

    By William Booth and PAUL FARHI, The Washington Post

    LONDON — Media baron Rupert Murdoch shuttered one of his signature British newspapers Thursday amid a spreading phone-hacking scandal that has damaged his reputation and threatened the globe-spanning...

  • In E-mails a Glimpse of Palin

    By Dan Eggen and ROBERT O'HARROW JR., The Washington Post

    JUNEAU, Alaska--The state of Alaska on Friday released more than 13,000 e-mails that shed light on Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor — before she became a vice-presidential candidate, a reality-TV...

  • Strauss-Kahn Granted Bail After Indictment

    By Brady Dennis, The Washington Post

    NEW YORK — A judge on Thursday granted $1 million bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund who was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid last...

  • AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Blasted

    By IAN SHAPIRA and Jia Lynn Yang, The Washington Post

    A day after AT&T announced it would buy T-Mobile USA to create the biggest wireless carrier in the country, consumer advocates and some members of Congress blasted the deal, arguing the $39...

  • 8 Ways You Fund the Film Industry

    By Sarah Stodola, The Fiscal Times

    Big money goes into the movies that will be celebrated at Sunday’s Academy Awards – in 2007, the average Hollywood production cost over $106 million. What’s lesser known is that a good chunk of that...