President Obama’s long, tortuous metamorphosis on same-sex marriage finally reached its evolved state right in between stinky cheese and “General Hospital.” Smoked out by his own vice president , Obama decided to come out of the closet on the issue to ABC News’s Robin Roberts, who rushed her scoop onto the air Wednesday afternoon during the closing minutes of “The Revolution,” ABC’s new talk show featuring a “stellar dream team of experts that will help complete transformations in all areas of life.” Read full article > >

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Obama comes out in favor of same-sex marriage

Barack Obama becomes the first US president to back gay marriage, as he speaks out on the politically charged issue in an interview with ABC News.

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VIDEO: Obama supports same-sex marriage

On the 100th anniversary of the wreck of the Titanic, our fascination with the ill-fated ship appears bottomless. Surely, that’s in part because we can’t help contemplating the queasy-making moral choices — women and children first! — that in many cases determined who sank or survived. Read full article > >

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Book World: Charlotte Rogan’s ‘The Lifeboat’ is a survivor’s tale

Katie Couric, the former sweetheart of NBC News’s “Today” show, is going to co-anchor ABC News’s “Good Morning America” next week, which will most likely nuke “Today’s” more than 16-year run as the most-watched morning infotainment-show. Read full article > >

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Katie Couric to guest-anchor ‘Good Morning America’

(Our Oscars live blog starts at 5p.m. EST. Join us!) If you pay even a small bit of attention to Hollywood, you may be aware that the Oscars are this Sunday. What you may not know is when they begin. Or what time the red carpet coverage starts. Perhaps you’re dying to know whether Uggie from “The Artist” will be there. Check out a list of frequently asked questions you may have about the big show below. Read full article > >

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Oscars 2012: What time does the show start, and other FAQs

ABC’s “Nightline” visited production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.

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Pogue’s Posts: What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found

Turned down a spot on the ABC competition.

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Herman Cain Is No Dancing Star

The channel would combine resources from ABC News and Univision’s news division to take on established players like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.

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Media Decoder Blog: Univision and Disney In Talks For An English-Language News Channel

Mitt Romney holds a strong lead nationally in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, with a 2 to 1 advantage over his closest competitors, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll . Read full article > >

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Most in poll think Romney will clinch GOP nomination

Influenced by cable and the Internet, the network news divisions of ABC, CBS and NBC have shifted the focus to differentiating their nightly shows.

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At ABC, CBS and NBC News, Accentuating the Differences

It is the nature of war to be messy, to be complicated, and to produce dueling—if not multiple—claims to “truth.” In a recent ABC interview , Barbara Walters accused Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad of bloody crackdowns against pro-democracy demonstrators. Walters said, “But I saw reporters who brought back pictures.” Assad defiantly responded, “Yeah, but how did you verify those pictures? …I cannot answer about fake pretenses, I can only talk about reality.”

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Walid Raad to Waltz with Bashir: Truth Claims, Contested Images & Lebanese Civil Wars

EDITOR’S NOTE : It’s the best-received “Peanuts” story we ever told. So to start a holiday tradition here, Comic Riffs is “rebroadcasting” this “Charlie Brown Christmas” tale, which we first shared last year — which now has several new additions to the story. And “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” of course, airs tonight at 8 ET on ABC . Read full article > >

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‘A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS’: The gospel truth behind how a humble ‘Peanuts’ holiday classic defied the odds

Congresswoman to appear on People cover, ABC News.

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New Photos of Gabby Giffords’ Recovery

New cracks have begun to show in President Obama’s support amongst African Americans, who have been his strongest supporters. Five months ago, 83 percent of African Americans held “strongly favorable” views of Obama, but in a new Washington Post-ABC news poll that number has dropped to 58 percent. That drop is similar to slipping support for Obama among all groups. Read full article > >

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Obama’s favorability numbers start to drop among African Americans

Tropical Storm Irene has caused flash flooding across New York state, leaving a trail of devastation, as Jim Avila reports for ABC News.

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