The NFL has been busy this spring, staking its claim to a moral high ground. We are all spinning from all the spin coming out of the commissioner’s office, all of which ends up with the same message: Trust us. We know best. Read full article > >

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Riots could erupt if police cut ties with journalists after the phone-hacking scandal, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens tells the Leveson Inquiry.

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NEW ORLEANS — NBA Commissioner David Stern says his only consideration during trade talks concerning Chris Paul was getting the best deal for the New Orleans Hornets. Stern says he believes he’s succeeded with Wednesday night’s deal in which the Hornets traded Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice. Read full article > >

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UNITED NATIONS — More than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month-long Syrian uprising, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday. Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters Monday that she told Security Council members of the dramatic increase in deaths during an afternoon briefing. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — After nearly two years of bickering, NBA players and owners are back on the same side. “We want to play basketball,” Commissioner David Stern said. Come Christmas Day, they should be. The sides reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season with a marquee tripleheader Dec. 25. Most of a season that seemed in jeopardy of being lost entirely will be salvaged if both sides approve the handshake deal. Read full article > >

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Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig made two announcements today at the close of the owners meetings that will significantly alter the competitive shape of the sport. By 2013, the league will have constant interleague play and perhaps as soon as next season 10 teams will make the postseason rather than eight. Read full article > >

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With unsettling consequences awaiting them should they fail to reach an agreement, representatives for the NBA and players’ union met again on Thursday to salvage what remains of an already-shortened season. The two sides met for nearly 11 hours a day after a 12-hour negotiating session but were still unable to produce a settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement. NBA Commissioner David Stern spoke with the owners’ labor relations committee and presented a revised proposal that union President Derek Fisher and executive director Billy Hunter said they would have to take back to the player representatives from the 30 teams and review in the next few days. Read full article > >

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The IRS commissioner has warned Congress that plans to cut the tax collector’s budget would add to the nation’s budget deficit and seriously hurt customer service. Legislation proposed by Senate appropriations that would slice $525 million from the Internal Revenue Service , and a House bill that would reduce agency spending by $650 million “would lead to noticeable degradation of both service and enforcement and would have a serious detrimental impact on voluntary compliance for years to come,” Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman said in the letter. The IRS budget is about $12.5 billion. Read full article > >

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Louise Casey has resigned as the commissioner for victims of crime in England and Wales.

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MADRID — Top European officials defended the health of the continent’s financial system Monday, trying to stem concerns that Europe’s slowing economy and high levels of government debt may cause some of its banks to fail. In separate statements European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said banks within the 17-nation euro currency zone have been steadily raising the amount of capital set aside as a cushion against losses and will not face the sort of cash crunch that helped trigger the recession in 2008. Read full article > >

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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of failing to live up to his pledge to halt all security operations against protesters, saying the Syrian leader “has not kept his word.” Assad assured Ban in a telephone conversation Wednesday that all police and military operations had stopped. On Friday, Syria’s U.N. envoy, Bashar al-Jafari, repeated the assertion. But there has been no visible slowing of the crackdown. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Monday that the steadily mounting death toll in Syria had topped 2,200 civilians, including 39 demonstrators killed since Assad made his pledge to the U.N. chief. Read full article > >

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The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales welcomes a report showing “robust evidence” of a link between money and well-being.

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The chief of Strathclyde Police is emerging as the front-runner to be the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, says a BBC correspondent.

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The president of Malawi has explained his decision to expel the British High Commissioner for the first time, saying he had insulted him.

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Fined $100,000 by NBA Commissioner David Stern for a homophobic slur he made to a referee Tuesday night, Kobe Bryant said he was caught up in the emotion of the game.

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