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Today: U.S. Soldiers Posed With Taliban Bodies , Obama, Romney in Dead Heat , FCC Asks Supremes to Hear Case
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

April 18, 2012
PHONE-HACKING SCANDAL

As Scotland Yard considers charging 11 in the hacking scandal, police have launched ‘Operation Sasha’ to investigate former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks. Peter Jukes on why she’s in the hot seat.

Macabre

A soldier from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne division has released photographs showing soldiers posing with the remains of Afghan suicide bombers. He told the Los Angeles Times he released the photos in order to bring attention to a breakdown in leadership and discipline. The photos show soldiers holding limbs and smiling after being sent to recover the remains of a suicide bomber.  The photos were taken in 2010. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized on Wednesday on behalf of the Defense Department and the U.S. government, while President Obama called for a investigation of the photos.

POLL

A new CBS News/New York Times poll released Wednesday has President Obama and Mitt Romney in a dead heat, with each receiving 46 percent of registered voters. The poll was conducted between last Friday and Tuesday, just days after Rick Santorum dropped out of the race—proving that the party has rallied around Romney. Fifty-four percent of Republican primary voters said they want Romney to be the nominee, up from 30 percent in March. Although Romney is the all-but-certain nominee, Newt Gingrich is still preferred among 20 percent of Republican primary voters, and Ron Paul has the support of 12 percent.

DECENCY POLICE

The Federal Communications Commission asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review its $550,000 fine given CBS after Janet Jackson’s halftime “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl. The Second Circuit threw out the fine as arbitrary and capricious, as well as another FCC fine against Fox for profanity during an awards show. The FCC asked the Supreme Court to hold its petition in abeyance until it had ruled on the Fox case; the high court is expected to deliver a decision in a couple of months.

WAIT

Osama bin Laden’s widows’ deportation from Pakistan has been delayed due to a missing passport, a lawyer for the family said on Wednesday—but they are still expected to leave for Saudi Arabia and Yemen later Wednesday. The wives, along with nine children, have not been deported yet because a brother of one of the wives was missing a passport. Although U.S. officials got to question the wives only once after the raid that killed bin Laden, Pakistani officials detained them and later learned details about bin Laden’s life in Pakistan. Pakistan decided last week to deport the wives, claiming they were in the country illegally.


Trial
Zimmerman Judge to Step Aside
Due to alleged conflict of interest.
FRAUD
Mortenson Faces Civil Suit
Over fabrications in “Three Cups of Tea.”
SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL
Escort Tells of Agent Meeting
“They never told me they were with Obama.”
FINAL DAYS
Levon Helm Dying of Cancer
Wife says disease is in its “final stages.”
CASE NOT DISMISSED
'Housewives' Judge Sets Retrial
Sheridan will go back to court in September.
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