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Helen Thomas retires![]() Thomas was the longest-serving White House journalist. Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired effective immediately, Hearst Corporation said Monday. The media conglomerate had employed Thomas as a syndicated columnist for its newspaper chain. Her retirement comes amid a furor created last week by her controversial comments regarding Jewish people. In a posting on her website on Friday, Thomas apologized for her remarks. "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon," she wrote. But the apology was not enough to silence critics, who began a rising chorus of calls for Thomas to be either terminated or suspended by Hearst. Yesterday's Ground Zero mosque meetingCNN New York affiliate WABC reports on a heated community meeting over a proposed mosque at Ground Zero. [cnn-video url= http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/06/06/pkg.ny.wtc.mosque.vote.wabc%5D |
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