Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR By Bridget Johnson - 09/18/10 05:33 PM ET The longtime White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspaper in June in the wake of comments she made about Israel will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is honoring Thomas, who is of Lebanese descent and now 90 years old, at its Leadership Conference and 16th Annual Fundraising Banquet on Oct. 9 in Arlington, Va. Speakers will also include Oxford Islamic studies scholar Tariq Ramadan. Thomas started at the White House as a reporter during the Kennedy...