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A top Washington Post editor instructed editors Tuesday night not to promote a story about a controversy involving the paper’s new CEO Will Lewis.

On Tuesday, a court in the United Kingdom ruled that Prince Harry could introduce new amendments in a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. over phone hacking — including one alleging that Lewis, then an News Corp. executive, was involved in a plan to delete emails regarding the phone hacking after the scheme was revealed.

The Washington Post  a story about the ruling on Tuesday, detailing Lewis’ role and his denials of wrongdoing.

But in the hours after the story was published, editors sought to downplay it.

In an email to some staff Tuesday evening, newsletter chief Elana Zak issued a brief directive with the subject line “don’t distribute this story,” liking to Tuesday’s development.

“Please do not put this Prince Harry story in any of your newsletters,” she wrote.

The email contained no additional information explaining why the paper did not want the story included in its newsletters. The Washington Post did not respond to multiple inquiries about the decision Tuesday evening.

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While the yearslong lawsuit has not dominated headlines in the US, Lewis’ appointment to the top job at the Washington Post and recent court filings have revitalized interest in the story in media circles. Prince Harry and 40 other plaintiffs have  that Lewis attempted to cover up executives’ role in the scandal by helping to justify the erasure of emails that could have contained details about the scandal. Lewis has denied wrongdoing publicly and to the Washington Post newsroom, and said that he was brought in after the scandal to “put things right.” He told staff he.

Lewis, the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, replaced outgoing CEO Fred Ryan in November, with a promise to modernize the paper’s newsroom and stem recent business losses. Tuesday’s ruling is also awkward timing for Lewis, who is slated to unveil the latest part of the company’s new “Build It” strategy at a company-wide town hall scheduled for Wednesday morning, which he  in an interview with Semafor last year.

She was a big part of S2 with the TB disaster.. wondered if that's still the case?

I hope it’s not true, he is a mainstay. He has experience and he is funny. Jeremy relies on him. It said he wanted to own his own block of farmland but again I didn’t read it properly as I saw it while traveling and got car sick and then couldn’t find it again.

LONDON (AP) —  can’t expand his privacy lawsuit against The Sun tabloid’s publisher to add allegations that  and some other executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering, a London judge ruled Tuesday.

The decision by Judge Timothy Fancourt in the High Court was a mixed ruling for the Duke of Sussex in one of his three  he has brought in his ongoing battles against British tabloids.

Fancourt allowed the prince to include allegations that his phone was tapped and add claims against other journalists and private investigators that he and other claimants say used unlawful means to snoop on them for scoops.

But he rejected Harry’s efforts to expand the case beyond the period from 1996 to 2015 to include claims of eavesdropping on his mother, the late Princess Diana, in 1994-95, and digging up private information on his now-wife, actor Meghan Markle, in 2016.

Fancourt said allegations that Murdoch “turned a blind eye” to wrongdoing added nothing material to claims made against News Group Newspapers, or NGN. The judge said those claims already include “trusted lieutenants,” naming Murdoch’s younger son, James Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks, who was editor at the defunct News of the World and The Sun.

The judge said some of Harry’s efforts to blame additional executives were to further a political agenda.

“There is a desire on the part of those running the litigation on the claimants’ side to shoot at ‘trophy’ targets, whether those are political issues or high-profile individuals,” Fancourt wrote. “Tempting though it no doubt is for the claimants’ team to attempt to inculpate the man at the very top, doing so will add nothing to a finding that Ms. Brooks and Mr. James Murdoch or other senior executives knew and were involved, if that is proved to be the case.”

Books is chief executive officer of News UK, a division of News Corp. media holdings that controls The Sun and The Times among other publications. James Murdoch resigned from News Corp. in 2020.

Rupert Murdoch, 93, was executive chairman of News Corp. and director of its subsidiary, News International, now News UK, which was NGN’s parent when News of the World folded. Murdoch  last fall as leader of both Fox News’ parent company and his News Corp.

Both sides claimed victory in the ruling that precedes a trial scheduled early next year.

Fancourt said that it was a split victory with the defense gaining an edge on the issues argued. He ordered Harry and other claimants to pay a third of NGN’s costs spent litigating the proposed amendments.

News Group said it welcomed the decision, saying it vindicated its position that new “wide-ranging” and irrelevant allegations be excluded from the case.

The claimants said in a statement that they were pleased the judge allowed many of the amendments that had been “vigorously opposed by NGN.”

The company issued an unreserved apology in 2011 to victims of voicemail interception by the News of the World, which closed its doors after a . NGN said it has settled 1,300 claims for its newspapers, though The Sun has never accepted liability.

The three-day hearing in March included claims against NGN by others, including actor , who accused The Sun of tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him.

Since then, Grant said he had reluctantly agreed to accept “an enormous sum of money” to settle his lawsuit.

Grant said he had to settle because of a court policy that could have stuck him with a huge legal bill even if he prevailed at trial. A civil court rule intended to avoid jamming up the courts would have required Grant to pay legal fees to both sides if he won at trial but was awarded anything lower than the settlement offer.

Attorney David Sherborne has suggested that Harry may have to settle for the same reason.

Harry has a similar case pending against the owner of the Daily Mail.

Last year, he  when Fancourt found phone hacking was “widespread and habitual” at Mirror Group Newspapers. In addition to a court judgment, he settled remaining allegations that included his legal fees.

Has there been no new episodes on the MT page in two weeks? This sucks, it's my favorite streaming service. Is it not doing well on Discovery +?

I am not a filmmaker, I wish I was. I tried to absorb and study as many cultures and religions as I can and the one that fascinated me the most is the Cypriot one. I watched a DW documentary talking about marriage, sexuality, and feminism and it was impressive how they took 4 countries for their case study. Personally no culture, country, or religion mastered the art of family and society as much as Greek Cypriots did after the war.

• Once proposed and the relationship between the couple becomes official, they move in with the WOMAN's family. (the modern version has the couple moving in a house near the WOMAN's family in the same village) => This limits the violence against women rates and provides a more stable initial bases for the relationship

• The kids are brought up by the mother's parents since school ends around 1p.m which provides a more protective environment for the child since both parents are working

• The sole inheritor of the family's house is the eldest daughter since in most cases the parents help build the eldest daughter's house above their house.

This provides both financial and physical safety for the woman and child which are the bases of a healthy society. Hence even though they went through war and tough times most of this generation are well educated and established in their society. I don't want any credit just watching this dying for the sake of modernization and it's sad.

Someone I know has written an article about the things he has observed during the aftermath of Quiet on set. What are your options on this, and what do you think we can do to help make the industry safer for child actors?

Did anyone catch the very short cut of Dick DeGuerin and what seemed to be another member of Bob’s defense team lying on the floor of the court room in the last episode? Someone on the voice over was talking about Bob’s defense team and DeGuerin specifically not doing a good job during the trial and they cut to a photograph of him on the floor very briefly. What was that about? Pretending to be the cadaver?

Hear me out-- Bob is a vicious prick who murders people and sometimes cuts them up. Bob is a wife-beater. Bob has a terrible temper and thinks of himself above anyone else. Bob killed dogs. I have trouble believing he is capable of human love. So why does he suck up to Debrah so much? Is Debrah his manipulative match, has she cracked his code of complete moral emptiness? Is it that she figured him out and is playing a superior long con for his money (literally dancing with the devil)? Or do you think there is real love there, that Bob is even capable of it? Despite his moral shortcomings, do you think ol' Bob's just lonely? Why such deference to Debrah? Did he give her access to the money just before he took off to Kill Susan, as a fail-safe measure (as a person to bail him out, just in case) ?

She is an intimidating person all on her own. I admit, I did cackle a bit when she was out enjoying her time in the Hamptons, and NOT in L.A. supporting Bob. That's so Debrah, amiright?

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