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'Coal Miner's Daughter' Lynn married at 15, not 13
Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being ...
Ex-tabloid boss Brooks faces phone hacking charges
Former U.K. tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four close aides were charged Tuesday over alleged attempts to conceal evidence in ...
AP Source: James wins 3rd NBA MVP award
LeBron James loves telling the story about his first MVP award. In James' first season of organized basketball, he was the best player on an ...
PM's former aide takes stand at UK ethics inquiry
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks — a pivotal figure in Britain's tabloid phone hacking saga — said Friday that Prime Minister David ...
Iran helps release of Turkish reporters in Syria
One Turkish journalist detained in Syria is a devout Muslim who was on a Gaza-bound aid ship targeted in an Israeli raid in 2010, and reported being ...
PM's ex-aide denies he was hired for Murdoch ties
The secretive spin doctor who helped bring Prime Minister David Cameron to power made a rare public appearance Thursday at Britain's media ethics ...
UK's Cameron braces for Rebekah Brooks' testimony
Prime Minister David Cameron's friendships with two suspects at the heart of Britain's phone hacking scandal will come under spotlight this week in ...
China expulsion of Al-Jazeera reporter criticized
China's expulsion of an American reporter working for the pan-Arab news network Al-Jazeera has drawn criticism from other journalists and the United ...
Police beat reporters during Vietnam land eviction
Police and security guards beat two journalists from Vietnamese state radio while they were covering the mass eviction of farmers from land slated for ...
China ignores questions on expelled reporter
The Chinese Foreign Ministry's usually staid news briefing showed some spark, with 14 out of 18 questions concerning the first expulsion of a foreign ...
Al-Jazeera says China has expelled reporter
Al-Jazeera's sole English-language reporter in China has been expelled, the pan-Arab news network said Tuesday. It's the first time since 1998 that ...
Phone hacking investigator in UK Supreme Court bid
A private investigator jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to back his bid to ...
UK ex-editor fights for phone hacking legal fees
Two British judges ruled Tuesday that a former tabloid editor who was once Prime Minister David Cameron's media strategist can continue a court battle ...
Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script
If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before.
Drug war slayings snuffing out news in Mexico
Four of the last reporters and photographers willing to cover crime stories have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where ...
3 journalists slain in Mexico's Veracruz state
Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in ...
Somber World Press Day in Somalia after 5th death
Dozens of Somali journalists met Thursday in somber silence to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, a meeting that came only hours after the killing of ...
Journalists being killed at 'astonishing pace'
On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the "astonishing pace" at which journalists are being attacked and murdered — 67 ...
Ex-CBS newsman, journalism prof. Ben Silver dies
Former CBS news correspondent and Arizona State University journalism professor Ben Silver has died. He was 85. The university says he died Wednesday ...
ProPublica editor named to Pulitzer Prize Board
The managing editor of the nonprofit news organization ProPublica has been named to the 19-member board that administers the Pulitzer Prizes in ...
BSkyB declares itself 'fit and proper'
British Sky Broadcasting PLC on Wednesday defended itself as a "fit and proper" company, a day after Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of the ...
AP source: Knicks' Chandler wins defensive award
Tyson Chandler has been voted the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for his impact on the New York Knicks, a person with knowledge of the award said ...
Sect publishes video of Nigeria newspaper attack
A radical Islamist sect published a video Tuesday showing a smiling suicide bomber drive into the offices of a major Nigerian newspaper and blow ...