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"The official stressed that the probe was in its infancy but declined to discuss the scope of it or say whether any investigative steps had been taken.
"News Corp., based in New York, has been in crisis mode because of a scandal that sank its U.K. newspaper the News of the World.
"A rival newspaper reported last week that the News of the World had hacked into the phone of U.K. teenage murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 and may have impeded a police investigation into her disappearance.
"More possible victims soon emerged: other child murder victims, 2005 London bombing victims, the families of dead soldiers and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
"U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said Thursday that the department 'does not comment specifically on investigations, though anytime we see evidence of wrongdoing, we take appropriate action.'"
FBI targets Murdoch - what are your comments?
King, a Republican, said Thursday afternoon he had not officially been contacted by the FBI and said he wanted to reserve comment until he hears from the agency.
"If they do, I'd be gratified," he said in a brief telephone interview with the AP.
On Thursday, Murdoch caved in to pressure from Britain's Parliament as he and his son James first refused, then agreed, to appear next week before lawmakers investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their newspaper empire.
Murdoch began his media career in Australia in 1952 after inheriting The News newspaper after the death of his father, and he has built News Corp. into one of the world's biggest media groups. Assets include Fox News, the 20th Century Fox movie studio, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and three newspapers in Britain – down from four with the death of the News of the World.
Also Thursday, Scotland Yard said it had made its seventh arrest related to the inquiry into phone hacking at the now-defunct tabloid, whose closure was a doomed effort to keep alive a bid for the highly profitable network British Sky Broadcasting. Police didn't disclose the name of the arrested man.
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Associated Press writer Frank Eltman contributed to this report.
,Those differences are worth discussing because the variation among
states is so high.,,
The five worst states for black unemployment are Wisconsin (25.0
percent), Michigan (23.9 percent), Minnesota (22.0 percent, Maine (21.4
percent), and Washington (21.1 percent). All five are significantly
above the national rate for blacks, 16.2 percent. (In May, the
comparable rates for whites and Hispanics were 8.0 and 11.9,
respectively.),,
The five best states for black unemployment are New Hampshire (10.3
percent), Hawaii (9.6 percent), Idaho (8.0 percent), Wyoming (6.2
percent) and Alaska (5.4 percent). (The map at the end of the report
has Arizona at 10.2 percent, which contradicts the text. I am fairly
sure that's a mistake in the map.),,
(There are no estimates for four states with very small black
populations, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Vermont.),
,I am not going to draw any grand conclusions from these differences,
since I don't know enough about the policies of those ten states. But I
will observe that most leftists would consider the five worst states
"progressive" (I would say reactionary), and that most leftists would
have other adjectives for the five best states, except, of course, for
Hawaii.,
,And I will add one small point about Washington state: My home state
has the highest minimum wage in the United States, thanks to a
labor-union-backed initiative. That may be one of the reasons that
black unemployment is higher here than in most other states., Cross
posted at Sound Politics. ,- 9:49 AM, 13
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