British Prime Minister David Cameron says James Murdoch "clearly" needs to answer questions from MPs after his evidence on phone hacking was challenged, and Labour's Tom Watson wants a police probe. The News International chairman had said he was not "aware" of an email suggesting hacking went wider than a "rogue" reporter at the firm's paper, but ex-NoW editor Colin Myler and legal manager Tom Crone said they told him.

After a 3-week lockout, some 22,000 Minnesota state workers returned to their jobs July 21 when the Republican-run legislature finally passed a 2-year budget. The legislature’s refusal to approve a budget unless it got what it wanted was part of a nationwide Radical Right campaign to cut state and local workers’ pay, destroy workers’ bargaining rights, cut pensions, fire workers and generally push them out of the middle class -- all under the guise of fiscal responsibility.

In what one now-former employee called "a major bloodletting," the Arizona Daily Star has let go 52 people, firing nearly its entire marketing department Thursday.
As many as 15 newsroom employees and many employees in the advertising, circulation, finance, and IT departments were also fired by the Lee Enterprises-owned newspaper. Lee stock has dropped by 70% in the last few months, and is now back under a dollar.