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May 16, 2012             00:15:42 Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Brooks was charged with concealing material from detectives, conspiring to remove boxes of archive records from [...]

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Mon Nov 7, 2011 6:17am EST ROME (Reuters) – Two journalists close to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he could resign as early as Monday, immediately boosting bond and stock markets. Giuliano Ferrara, editor of the Foglio newspaper and a former minister seen as extremely close to Berlusconi, said on its website: “That Silvio [...]

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October 14, 2011      12:47 pm After days of resisting opposition calls to resign, Britain’s defense secretary, Liam Fox, has surrendered to the clamor to quit over his controversial relationship with a businessman who styled himself as a ministerial advisor. Fox’s friendship with Adam Werrity had been under scrutiny since reports emerged that he had accompanied [...]

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August 24, 2011    3:47pm Steve Jobs has resigned his post as CEO at Apple Inc. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer who has been filling in for Jobs since the company co-founder took his second medical leave in January, will take over as chief executive of the Cupertino tech giant. Jobs has been named chairman [...]

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August 1, 2011    4:44 pm The interim chief of Los Angeles County’s troubled child welfare agency is quitting, a spokesman confirmed Monday. The resignation of Jackie Contreras, effective Sept. 16, is the third departure by an agency director in nine months. Trish Ploehn, the embattled former chief, was forced out in December. Then in [...]

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18 July 2011 Last updated at 10:49 ET Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has quit after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal. Mr Yates checked the credentials of Neil Wallis before the Met employed the former News of the World executive, arrested last week over hacking claims. Mr Yates’s decision to resign came after [...]

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17 July 2011 Last updated at 15:04 ET  The UK’s most senior officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, survived the first two major crises of his reign – the arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green and the student protests. But he resigned without warning, as the Metropolitan police force became drawn ever closer into the phone hacking [...]

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July 15, 2011: 6:27 PM ET Les Hinton said Friday he is resigning as chief executive of Dow Jones, the latest development in the phone-hacking scandal that already put Rupert Murdoch’s News of the Worldtabloid out of business. The resignation makes Hinton the second News Corp. (NWSA, Fortune 500) executive to step down Friday. Rebekah [...]

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June 23rd, 2011  05:17 PM ET Jim Riggleman has resigned as manager of the Washington Nationals over contract issues, the team said Thursday on its website. Quoting Riggleman’s manager Burt Rocks, the team said Riggleman was upset the ballclub “didn’t pick up the option year in his contract.” Riggleman’s departure marks the second time this [...]

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Tue Jun 21, 2011  01:17am EDT David Roth vowed he would not miss another chance to watch his son pitch for South Carolina at the College World Series if the Gamecocks returned to Omaha after winning the national championship in 2010. But when his son’s team made it back, David Roth found himself in a [...]

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June 20, 2011 3:49 p.m. EDT Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday. In the operation, straw [...]

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June 20, 2011 — Updated 1508 GMT World soccer’s governing body FIFA have confirmed that vice president Jack Warner has resigned from his position within the organization. Last month Trinidadian Warner, along with fellow-FIFA member Mohammed bin Hammam, were provisionally suspended by FIFA’s Ethics Committee, pending the outcome of an investigation of corruption allegations against [...]

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June 2, 2011 5:43 a.m. EDT A liberal Democratic congressman who came under fire for a lewd photo that briefly appeared on his Twitter account over the weekend told CNN Wednesday that he did not post the image. Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner spoke to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer a day after a contentious exchange with reporters [...]

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March 8th, 2011  10:07 a.m. James O’Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving. O’Keefe’s compatriots, Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, posed as members of a Muslim group with ties to [...]

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February 11th, 2011 Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan resigned Thursday after 23 seasons as coach of the Utah Jazz. “I had a feeling this time was the time to move on,” Sloan said at a news conference. “(That’s) a long time to be in one organization. Today is a new day. When I get this [...]

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1:54 AM, February 10, 2011 Upstate Rep. Christopher Lee abruptly quit his job yesterday after he was exposed trolling for an extramarital tryst on Craigslist — using his real name and Gmail account. In a mind-boggling blunder, the Buffalo-area Republican, who is married with a young son, responded to an ad in Craigslist’s “women seeking [...]

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January 21, 2011 11:49pm U.S. cable news television network MSNBC and its top anchor, Keith Olbermann, abruptly parted ways Friday, less than three months after the liberal broadcaster was suspended for campaign donations to Democrats. Olbermann, who had two years left on his contract, signed off for the last time on his “Countdown with Keith [...]

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