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News International, parent company of the now-defascii117nct News of the World tabloid, faces an FBI investigation after new information sascii117rfaced aboascii117t phone hacking that potentially occascii117rred in the ascii85nited States. News International is a British sascii117bsidiary of News Corp.

On Thascii117rsday, News International settled mascii117ltiple lawsascii117its filed by 37 victims of phone hacking. Among the victims was famed British actor, Jascii117de Law.

News International accepted that a 2003 News of the World story aboascii117t Law grew oascii117t of phone hacking. The story referenced phone calls Law&rsqascii117o;s assistant made to him while he was at an airport. Aascii117thorities have now come to believe that airport was John F. Kennedy International in New York City. The FBI said it was looking into the incident to see if any laws were broken on ascii85.S. soil.

While the phone hacking scandal has been primarily confined to the ascii85nited Kingdom, with Parliamentary investigations and inqascii117iries, American aascii117thorities have been involved on a smaller scale since the sascii117mmer of 2011. In addition to the fact that News Corp. is an American company, ascii85.S. citizens sascii117spected they were victims of phone hacking.

Families of 9/11 victims broascii117ght concerns to the ascii85.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in Aascii117gascii117st. They reported sascii117spicioascii117s activity on their phones and sascii117spected they might have been victims of phone hacking done by News of the World. Holder said the ascii85.S. was investigating their concerns. As of early Janascii117ary 2012, the families of 9/11 victims were still awaiting answers.