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*Barbara Walters is calling it quits. The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning on “The View” that she will retire from TV journalism next summer. ABC said in an announcement late Sunday that, until then, Walters will continue to anchor and report for the network, anchor specials throughout the year, and [...]
*Newly out NBA center Jason Collins and his twin brother Jarron will be guests on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on May 15. Collins became the first openly gay NBA player when he came out in a Sports Illustrated article last week – and ABC has been on him ever since, with “Good Morning America” scoring [...]
*Washington Wizards center Jason Collins, who became the first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport when he revealed his sexuality on Monday, gave his first post-closet interview to ABC News, calling his pioneer status “mind-boggling.” “I never set out to be the first,” Collins told “Good Morning America” anchor George Stephanopoulos in [...]
*ABC made it official in an announcement this morning – former CBS News reporter and “60 Minutes” correspondent Byron Pitts has joined ABC News as an anchor and chief national correspondent based in New York. He’ll also play a significant role on ABC’s Friday newsmagazine “20/20,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pitts will appear across [...]
*“Southland,” Robin Roberts’ ABC special about her bone marrow transplant and “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” were among the 39 winners of this year’s Peabody Awards honoring the best in electronic media in 2012. The honorees were announced at a ceremony on the University of Georgia campus, but the awards won’t be handed out until [...]
*One of two high school sophomore football player in Steubenville, Ohio accused of raping a 16-year-old girl from across the Ohio River in West Virginia while at a party with several other teenage boys is speaking out about the incident. Ma’lik Richmond, 16, spoke with ABC News about the case, which has created a firestorm [...]
*ABC News is reportedly close to signing “60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts, according to Politico.com. “Pitts will serve as both chief national correspondent and anchor at ABC News, and will appear across the network’s programming. ABC News President Ben Sherwood is expected to announce the news next week,” Dylan Byers of Politico reported. “Pitts is [...]
*Hours after “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts said goodbye to her co-workers and audience one day before her scheduled departure to start medical leave for a bone marrow transplant, her mother passed away in Mississippi. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Jeffrey W. Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, said 88-year-old Lucimarian Roberts died [...]
*Surrounded by some of her children, including Janet, Rebbie and Jermaine Jackson, Katherine Jackson made a statement upon returning home from a trip to Arizona that has caused all kinds of drama and turmoil among her famous offspring. At the center of the confusion are Jackson’s three children, who were placed in the temporary custody [...]
*In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences. Obama has always believed in “civil unions,” but stopped short of supporting gay marriage, saying his view on the subject “is evolving.” The stance was a source of frustration [...]
*Last week, a video showing George Zimmerman at the Sanford Police Department the night he killed Trayvon Martin originally appeared to show no signs of the violent fight he told police took place between himself and the 17-year-old that night, but ABC news has enhanced the video showing signs of injury on Zimmerman’s head. (Are [...]
*On the Thursday before Whitney Houston died, she reportedly had a contentious exchange with her ex-boyfriend Ray-J and former “X Factor” finalist Stacy Francis, who had credited Houston as her inspiration and had been pulled onstage to sing with her in 1999 during a concert, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As widely reported, Houston was [...]
*You can feel the Mississippi heat bearing down as you watch “The Help,” to say nothing of the actual heat wave currently soaking the nation or coming soon to a theater near you. But make no mistake: This is no easy, breezy summer movie. That’s a great thing. While the best-selling book that inspired the [...]
*The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published in Newsweek that he appeared as a “crazy man” and attacked her when she entered his room. Nafissatou Diallo also gave the newsmagazine and ABC News permission to identify her by name, reports [...]
*Deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms tore through the South Wednesday, killing more than 170 people in five states and giving neighboring states a possible taste of what’s to come today, authorities said. At least 178 deaths are being blamed on severe weather that has hit the region in the past several days. The majority of the [...]
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