We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]
And it is Valerie Jarrett: ABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: President-elect Barack Obama has named Valerie Jarrett Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison, according to an Obama advisor. One of Obama’s closest confidantes, Jarrett has been friends with Obama and his wife, Michelle, since the President-elect decided to […]
Here’s another one for the IRS to investigate: A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.” The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a […]
This is turning into a daily event and makes one wonder if they aren’t trying to say “hey computers aren’t safe”: Equipment containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 1.3 million Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. borrowers has disappeared, company officials said. There was no evidence the information had been misused, but Texas […]