Ex-Cameron aide arrested in UK hacking scandal

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief and a former royals reporter for the News of the World tabloid were arrested today, the latest to be swept up by Britain’s rapidly evolving media scandal over phone hacking and bribing police. Rupert Murdoch’s media empire on Thursday shut down the 168-year-old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers. The revelations horrified both ordinary Britons and advertisers, who pulled their ads en masse.