In a letter issued Friday to Time Warner Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairmen Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) contended that CNN “is skewed in favor of anti-immigration efforts.” Many of CNN’s news programs have adopted “the language Lou Dobbs uses,” Menendez said, referring to Dobbs’ heavy anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.
U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad “have been targeted with 251 improvised bombs this month — nearly double the monthly average — as fighting in and around Sadr City intensified.” U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mike Milano said that “[s]ome of the attacks involved deadly armor-piercing bombs that the U.S. military has linked to Iran.”