Reuters – Time Warner Cable and News Corp’s Fox Networks agreed to a brief extension of their current carriage contract on Thursday to avoid a blackout that would have prevented 13 million U.S. homes from seeing TV shows like “The Simpsons” and college and NFL football games.
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AP – The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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AP – President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration has provided Congress inconsistent reports about — and regrets for — running background checks on his then-estranged wife’s boyfriend two decades ago.
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Reuters – About 13 million Time Warner Cable Inc subscribers were to lose most Fox programing at midnight on Thursday unless the cable service provider reached a last-minute deal to pay fees to News Corp to broadcast the shows.
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Politico – Obama was given the preliminary results.
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AP – A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.
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AP – It took Mark Dayton two tries and many millions from his personal fortune to win one of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seats. After one frustrating term, he couldn’t wait to flee Washington.
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AP – The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday
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Reuters – The U.S. Federal Reserve’s balance sheet shrank slightly in the latest week on a small dip in its holdings of agency mortgage-backed securities, Fed data released on Thursday showed.
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AP – The Transportation Security Administration backed down Thursday from its demand that an Internet travel writer immediately provide information on how he obtained an airline security directive.
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