What began as the resurrection of one of the most animated characters in the 2008 campaign on Thursday ended with Mitt Romney being forced to answer to reporters and consequently offer up a flub of an answer on whether he supports negative ads. After a...
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he and first lady Michelle Obama were "saddened" to hear of the death of "Disco Queen" Donna Summer. "Her voice was unforgettable, and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donna's family and her dedicated fans," the president said in a written statement. The big-voiced star had '70s hits with "I Feel Love" and "Last Dance" and scored a 1983 smash with "She Works Hard for the Money." In December 2009, she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, honoring Obama. The president also mourned the passing of Dick Clark back in April. But he kept mum about the deaths of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Beastie Boy MCA (Adam Yauch), a fervent activist on behalf of people in Tibet. More popular Yahoo! News stories: • Gallup poll: Romney's 'favorable' rating jumps • The man...
President Barack Obama on Friday kicks off a frenetic four days of guns-and-butter diplomacy, including a pair of high-stakes international summits focused on reviving the sputtering global economy and winding down the unpopular war in Afghanistan. Both issues will shape Obama's legacy — not to mention his hopes for re-election in November. And the back-to-back gatherings of the Group of Eight rich countries at Camp David and the NATO summit in Chicago offer vital opportunities to get the United States and its closest allies in closer harmony. White House officials have worriedly watched Europe's debt crisis, concerned that a recession there could infect the already-weak American economy. And the president has made a successful handover of security responsibility from NATO-led forces to their Afghan counterparts by the end of 2014 one of his signature foreign policy goals. Obama's diplomatic dash opens Friday with a visit from France's new president, François...
“Ex-PATRIOT” – Schumer Targets Anti-Tax Facebook Set - Act to Target Eduardo Saverin – It’s not a Bill of Attainder, they say, because they’d target any soon-to-be Internet billionaire who renounces his (or her) citizenship to avoid paying taxes – http://abcn.ws/LgYc14 Eduardo Saverin Writes from...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had three opening words as she addressed the graduates of New York University on Wednesday who were holding their ceremony at Yankee Stadium. “This is a-w-e-some. “I grew up in a public housing project in the Bronx just a few...
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty slightly changed his tune on his vice presidential prospects Thursday when he didn’t rule out the possibility that he might get picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate. Just days before, he had told reporters to take him off the list....
Ads that tout New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s education record and bipartisanship are set to run in his home state markets as part of a $1.6 million television ad campaign by an outside group, The Committee for Our Children’s Future. The group’s fourth ad will...
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Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and it looked like his nose was broken. Two witnesses appear to back up Zimmerman's version of being on his back and beaten by Martin.
Authorities are questioning a man over suspicious highway stops in central Mississippi Wednesday night following two fatal shootings last week that apparently occurred during phony highway stops in the northern part of the state.
Donna Summer, the singer who came to be known as the “Queen of Disco” during her 1970s heyday, died today after battling cancer, a family member confirmed to ABC News. She was 63. Summer was a five time Grammy award winner who was the first artist to...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mitt Romney’s around-the-clock fundraising schedule seems to be paying off, literally. Romney, with the help of the Republican National Committee, raised $40.1 million in April, nearly matching the $43 million raised by President Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the...
A defiant George Lucas showed his Indiana Jones-caliber feistiness when the filmmaker ended nearly 25 years of neighborhood oppostion to a California studio by announcing the land would instead be used to build low-income housing.
In the wake of an ABC News investigation revealing extreme animal cruelty, Pepsi has canceled its sponsorship of the annual Tennessee Walking Horse championship, the Celebration. The discontinuation of the relationship was "effective immediately," according to Pepsi spokesman Dave DeCecco. The company said its logo was removed Wednesday from the Celebration website, prior to the broadcast of the ABC News report on "Nightline."
