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U.K. Tabloid Scandal: Former PM Brown Condemns News International

Rupert Murdoch as he left his apartment in London earlier today (July 12, 2011). Oli Scarff/Getty Images hide caption

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U.K. Tabloid Scandal: Former PM Brown Condemns News International

The scandal in the United Kingdom keeps expanding, and Rupert Murdoch's media holdings there have been rocked.

NPR's David Folkenflik talks with Mary Louise Kelly

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U.K. Tabloid Scandal: Prime Minister Brown, Royals Potential Targets

The scandal prompted News International to fold News of the World. Sunday's issue was the 168-year-old newspaper's last. Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images hide caption

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U.K. Tabloid Scandal: Prime Minister Brown, Royals Potential Targets

The scandal keeps growing. Now there are reports of snooping into the private records of Gordon Brown, even when he was prime minister, and of payments to officials for information about the royal family.

Murdoch Folds Tabloid Over Hacking Scandal

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Murdoch Folds Tabloid Over Hacking Scandal

The British tabloid has been under increasing attack because of the scandal over how investigators it hired hacked the phones of murder victims, celebrities, politicians and relatives of those killed and injured in the London bombings.

'News Of The World' Folding; Hacking Scandal Brings It Down

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Phone-Hacking Scandal Widens; Casey Anthony To Be Sentenced

There's word from the U.K. that an investigator for News of the World also collected information on families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anthony could be given credit for time-served and be released.

Renee Montagne speaks with NPR's David Schaper

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