Ginger White now says Herman Cain is not the only man in her life who gave her money. White, who has said she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain , on Monday told the Daily Beast’ s Leslie Bennetts that “Cain wasn’t the only man who helped her financially; her work history and her sex life have long been intermingled in complex and contradictory ways.’’ Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — The executive hired to turn around Newsweek magazine has left after 11 months. Ray Chelstowski, who served as publisher of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website, ended his tenure Monday. He had come from Entertainment Weekly magazine to oversee an effort to boost ad sales at Newsweek. Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal and Tom Weber, the magazine’s managing editor, also resigned Monday. Felsenthal is leaving to spend more time with his family and may eventually return, according to Andrew Kirk, a spokesman for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Read full article > >

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To better ensure its staff follows the school’s biblical mandate, Georgia’s Shorter University told its 200 employees late last month to sign a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” rejecting homosexuality, adultery and premarital sex. The New York Daily News reports that those who don’t sign the pledge may lose their jobs. Read full article > >

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Carole Caplin, former “lifestyle adviser” to Tony and Cherie Blair, wins “substantial” libel damages from the Daily Mail.

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Self-regulation is the “only viable way” of policing a free press, Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre tells a seminar on press regulation.

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Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. We interrupt your daily programming for breaking news! The world record for stir fry has been broken. – WWLP Why corked wines can't and shouldn't be screwed with. – Gizmodo Speaking of wine, these female sommeliers are changing the terroir of the male-dominated wine world. – The Feast Taco Bell and KFC may soon be taking your food stamps. – USA Today The naughty “g” word: The word “gastropub” has been banned by The Good Food Guide because it's overused. – Telegraph

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Turkish hackers managed to re-direct visitors away from high-profile sites, including Vodafone and the Daily Telegraph.

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Hackers carry out website hijacks

Facebook announced Friday that it will end its Deals program, the network’s answer to Groupon and other daily deals sites. The program is being dropped after four months of testing in select markets in Texas, California and Georgia. The network will discontinue the program in the “coming weeks.” “We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses,” Facebook said in a statement to the Associated Press. “We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.” Read full article > >

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Bloomberg took another step Thursday toward expanding its media empire, announcing plans to buy an Arlington County publisher of legal, tax, business and government news services for $990 million. The deal for the Bureau of National Affairs is the largest in Bloomberg’s 30-year history and comes as the New York-based financial news and data juggernaut seeks to build franchises focused on the legal and government markets. With more than 600 reporters, lawyers and editors on staff, BNA, founded in 1929, offers a wealth of legal, legislative and regulatory news and commentary through about 300 online and print outlets. The company, which reported 2010 revenue of $331 million, is known for such publications as U.S. Law Week and Daily Labor Report. Read full article > >

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Bloomberg took another step Thursday toward expanding its media empire, announcing plans to buy an Arlington County publisher of legal, tax, business and government news services for $990 million. The deal for the Bureau of National Affairs is the largest in Bloomberg’s 30-year history and comes as the New York-based financial news and data juggernaut seeks to build franchises focused on the legal and government markets. With more than 600 reporters, lawyers and editors on staff, BNA, founded in 1929, offers a wealth of legal, legislative and regulatory news and commentary through about 300 online and print outlets. The company, which reported 2010 revenue of $331 million, is known for such publications as U.S. Law Week and Daily Labor Report. Read full article > >

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Almost half the jobs at two of Scotland’s biggest selling newspapers, The Daily Record and Sunday Mail, are to go.

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Will Alec Baldwin’s next act after 30 Rock be one of political theater? A friend tells The Daily that the actor is considering running for mayor of New York, with Anthony Weiner’s Twitter scandal knocking the congressman out of his position as…

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Rebecca Mansour, a top aide to Sarah Palin, sent a series of revelatory direct messages on Twitter roughly a year ago that were recently forwarded to The Daily Caller. The inflammatory messages to an online pal show that Palin, whom Mansour calls…

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Sometimes, we mourn a man. But how, in heaven’s name, do we mourn the stark and resonant end of an era? Babe Ruth. Mickey Mantle. Joe Louis and Joe Namath. Some sports figures become symbols of their athletic generation, so woven are they into the national fabric. As a sports cartoonist and columnist, BILL GALLO was a journalistic symbol for the generations. And for 70 years as a cartoonist, more than a half-century at the New York Daily News, he was the one helping to weave that fabric. Read full article > >

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The Sun and Daily Mirror are facing contempt of court proceedings over the way they reported the hunt for the killer of Jo Yeates last December.

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