LONDON (Reuters) – James Murdoch knew more than three years ago that phone-hacking at News Corp’s News of the World went beyond one “rogue” reporter, the newspaper’s former legal chief said on Tuesday, contradicting repeated denials by Murdoch. As the two-month crisis that has gripped News Corp and Britain’s political establishment deepened, Tom Crone also ...

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Casting himself as America’s CEO, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday outlined a sweeping economic plan that would reduce regulations and taxes on companies, sanction China over its currency practices and weaken the clout of labor unions. Trying to hold off surging rival Rick Perry, Romney traveled to economically ...

NEW YORK – Just weeks after Fox dropped “America’s Most Wanted” after more than two decades, its creator-host, John Walsh, has a new home for the show on the Lifetime network. The deal, announced jointly on Tuesday by Walsh and Lifetime, will return to the air Walsh’s weekly criminal roundup, which since 1988 has helped ...

BENGHAZI, Libya/AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) – Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters Tuesday. The Libyan rebels who overthrew Gaddafi two weeks ago ...

DETROIT – President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said. In a partial preview of ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. – It’s not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn’t sleep there. But The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale is widely regarded as a history exhibit of blues music. And, oh yes. Muddy Waters did sleep there and Bessie Smith died there. Waters and other blues icons roomed at the Riverside ...

NEW YORK – They are two different players and, at times, it looks as if they’re playing two different games. There’s the Serena Williams style, filled with intimidation and huge shots. And there’s the way Caroline Wozniacki does it, with great hustle and even better conditioning. Both players made it through the fourth round of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major stock indexes fell more than 2 percent on Tuesday on fears the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis was worsening and the U.S. economy was sliding back into recession. European equities also dropped, extending the previous session’s 4 percent decline, with bank shares hitting a 29-month low on worries about the ...

NEW YORK – For many in New York and Washington, Sept. 11, 2001, was a personal experience, an attack on their cities. Most everywhere else in the world, it was a television event. TV’s commemoration as the 10th anniversary approaches on Sunday puts that day in many different contexts. There is one place, however, for ...

TRIPOLI/AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) – Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters on Tuesday. A convoy of between 200 and 250 vehicles was ...