[July 20, 2011] Major news items in leading U.S. newspapers Tweet WASHINGTON, Jul 20, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The following are major news items in leading U.S. newspapers on Wednesday. The New York Times: -- President Obama seized on the re-emergence of an ambitious bipartisan budget plan in the Senate on Tuesday to invigorate his push for a big debt-reduction deal, and he summoned Congressional leaders back to the bargaining table this week to "start talking turkey." The Washington Post: -- Calling it "the most humble day" of his life, Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch confronted angry lawmakers Tuesday, insisting they did not know the scope of phone hacking at their News of the World tabloid and apologizing for being the source of one of the worst crises in the history of British media. The Wall Street Journal: -- News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch forcefully apologized to victims of phone hacking by his employees but declared he was not to blame -deflecting the responsibility for the fiasco to other managers, saying "they behaved dreadfully" and "it's for them to pay." [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]