Surveillance videos publicly aired for the first time Thursday show Dominique Strauss-Kahn leisurely checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of committing sexual assault and show his accuser appearing to act out the alleged attack.It was not immediately clear how France's BFM television acquired the minutes-long segments. The clips were the basis of recent news reports suggesting Str...

A special deficit-reduction supercommittee appears likely to admit failure on Monday, unable or unwilling to compromise on a mix of spending cuts and tax increases required to meet its assignment of saving taxpayers at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.The panel is sputtering to a close after two months of talks in which the members were never able to get close to bridging a fundamental d...

ABC News says a reporter trying to question GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was pushed and shoved by members of her camp after a campaign event in South Carolina.Network news senior vice president Jeffrey Schneider said reporter Brian Ross was shoved Tuesday as security tried to block him from the Minnesota congresswoman while he asked whether she had to miss votes because of migraines...

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corp., scuttled his ambitions to take cont...

Mark Quinn, host of “The Big Picture,” ETV’s program that aired on TV and radio, has left the station to become the director of public and member relations at the Electric Co-Operatives of South Carolina.Taped episodes of the program will air through the summer, ETV’s Rob Schaller said. A replacement will be named. Staff reports

For more than a decade, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger managed to keep secret the fact that he had fathered a child with a member of his household staff, misleading not only to his family, but also to millions of Californians who may not have elected him had they known. Battered by years of fiscal problems, Schwarzenegger's public approval rating had dipped to 23 percent when he left office in Jan...

Syria's Cabinet resigned Tuesday to help quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago and is now threatening President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule in one of the most authoritarian and closed-off nations in the Middle East.Assad, whose family has controlled Syria for four decades, is trying to calm the growing dissent with a string of concessions. He is expected to address the nat...

David Broder, one of the nation's premier political reporters for decades, was a curious mix of old and new.He combined unglamorous shoe-leather reporting with a knack for detecting trends ahead of his competitors. A rumpled dresser with thick glasses and a shirt pocket full of pens and pencils, he was constantly in demand by good-looking TV news hosts who craved the insights and knowledge he had ...

Krista Klumpp moved to Columbia in June after she took a job as a pharmaceutical representative. Two months later, the Alabama native had to ask for a leave of absence. She kept her reasons vague, but that’s what one has to do to keep their appearance on a reality gameshow secret.On Wednesday night, Klumpp was one of 18 contestants who started matching wits on “Survivor: Redemption Islan...

Army patrols and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed.Hours after the attack on Manama's main Pearl Square, the military announced on stat...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Egypt's embattled autocratic ruler, a staunch U.S. ally, to immediately begin the process of transitioning the country to new leadership, a signal that there should be no drawn-out goodbye.Earlier, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had announced he would not seek another term in office but also would not yield to growing demands to step down now. After a...

Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: “We will move forward together or not at all.” To a television audience in the millions, Obama addressed a Congress sobered by the assassinati...

Addressing a demand for economic answers, President Barack Obama will try to convince the American people and a divided Congress that he has a vision for speeding up job creation, promoting spending on the core of his agenda but promising to rein in a growing, staggering debt. His State of the Union address will reflect reality: The economy trumps all.To a nationwide television audience Tuesday ni...

A video segment about missing Columbia woman Dail Dinwiddie has been posted on a CNN blog.The family of Dail Dinwiddie traveled to New York earlier this month to tape an interview for the parker|spitzer television show. Their segment never aired on the national political talk show featuring former Columbia resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Kathleen Parker. Dinwiddie sat for P...

A new president has been named for the ETV public broadcasting network.Linda O’Bryon was selected by the ETV Commission on Wednesday. O’Bryon is the former chief of content officer at KQED/Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, the South Carolina network announced in a press release Thursday.During her tenure, the public broadcasting network launched the radio series &...

The television ads feature newspaper headlines about Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley’s taxes, her jobs or her e-mails. Editorials have questioned whether she had the right leadership approach with fellow lawmakers.Fellow Republicans have run a Swift Boat-style campaign doubting her fitness for office. But according to polls, none of it matters much to voters because Haley, a ...

WASHINGTON - For Rep. John Spratt, the fallout from a landmark Supreme Court ruling that lifted limits on corporate campaign spending is more than $1 million from five groups based outside South Carolina and unified by the goal of defeating the House Budget Committee chairman.The groups targeting Spratt, a Democrat from York, have lofty, patriotic names, but the one that has spent the most - Citiz...

CNN fired anchor Rick Sanchez Friday, a day after he said on a radio show that Jews control U.S. television networks. "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company," a CNN spokesman said. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well." Sanchez's outburst about Jews came during a rant against Jon Stewart, who often makes fun of Sanchez on his Comedy Central show. Sanchez was being ...

Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," has died. He was 91.NBC News did not immediately say Wednesday where or when Newman had died, or the cause of death.At NBC from 1952 until his retirement in 1984, Newman did political reporting, fo...

Rep. Joe Wilson and Democratic opponent Rob Miller have new television ads that take a decidedly negative turn in their race for South Carolina's 2nd District.Wilson campaign officials say the Republican congressman's ad debuts Wednesday.In the ad, a somber Wilson introduces a retired two-star Marine general who tells Miller he should return contributions he's taken from the liberal organization M...

James J. Kilpatrick, who rose from cub reporter to become one of the South's most prominent newspaper editors and the nation's most widely syndicated political columnist, has died. He was 89.Kilpatrick's wife, Marianne Means, said he died Sunday night at George Washington University Hospital. Means said he was being treated for congestive heart failure.TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as t...

From Playgirl to ... politico?That's right: Levi Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, is confirming a report that Johnston is planning to run for city office in his hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, as part of a reality TV show.Wasilla is where Sarah Palin got her start in politics, moving up from City Council to mayor before winning election as Alaska's governor in 2006. Johnston, 20, is the father of Pali...