Nation Dec 31 Former PBS and CNN anchor Aaron Brown dies at 76 By Jim Salter, R.J. Rico, Associated Press
Politics Dec 19 Watch 5:58 A look at the legal tactics Trump is using against media outlets Donald Trump is following through on threats of legal action against the media. After ABC agreed to pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump, his legal team filed a suit against Ann Selzer and the Des… By Geoff Bennett, Matt Loffman
Politics Dec 16 Watch 7:22 ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd term President-elect Trump settled a defamation lawsuit with ABC News for $15 million. That suit followed a segment in which George Stephanopolous inaccurately said Trump had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carrol when in fact, he had been… By Amna Nawaz, Saher Khan
Politics Dec 14 ABC agrees to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press
Politics Dec 08 Two television networks unveil GOP debates in January, set in New Hampshire The debate announcements came a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie met for the fourth debate of the 2024 primary season. By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
Jul 31 You can trace all modern political TV battles back to this one moment in 1968 By Joshua Barajas Heated political rhetoric is nothing new, a new documentary on Gore Vidal and William Buckley shows. Continue reading
May 15 ABC faces credibility crisis over Stephanopoulos donations By David Bauder, Associated Press George Stephanopoulos apologized to viewers Friday for donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and failing to disclose it earlier, as ABC News now finds its chief anchor in a credibility crisis on the eve of a presidential campaign. Continue reading
Dec 02 Facebook and ABC News launch first social media newscast By Anna Sillers Starting this week, Facebook users may have noticed “Facecast,” a one-minute video update of world news hosted by ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir. The partnership is the first of its kind -- a short newscast exclusively for a… Continue reading
May 09 Watch Obama Supports Same-Sex Marriage: Now What? President Obama said Wednesday that he now believes "same-sex couples should be able to get married." Judy Woodruff and author Kerry Eleveld discuss the president's "evolution" on the subject, then Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry and the Rev. Harry… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Syria’s Assad Denies Ordering Deadly Crackdown as Sanctions Drive Down Currency Syria's President Bashar al-Assad denied in a Wednesday interview that he ordered a deadly crackdown on protesters. Jeffrey Brown speaks with NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from Beirut, about how the interview will be viewed inside Syria, the state of the… Continue watching