“ABC News” on The Daily Caller

Newly replaced Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with, according to an ABC News “Nightline” interview with Pawlenty scheduled to air Friday evening. (more)

It was with great fanfare and a measure of controversy that ABC News named Christiane Amanpour to anchor its Sunday morning show “This Week” after George Stephanopoulos moved on to host “Good Morning America.” (more)

Stranded by the massive winter storm that battered the East Coast this week, a New York mother of five paid $900 for a cab to drive her family home through heavy snow and high winds, ABC News reported Wednesday. (more)

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl conducted exit interviews with four congress critters who lost their jobs in November. Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) said particularly sad things: (more)

Ben Sherwood may have only been president of ABC News for a couple of weeks, but he’s already epically unpopular among his staff, at least according to a new attack video on Sherwood that was allegedly produced by ABC staffers. (more)

“You’ve heard TSA say how most passengers support the use of our Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT),” a TSA blogger wrote earlier this month on the agency’s website. “Well, this time you don’t have to hear it from us. You can read a recent public poll that was conducted by CBS News where 4 in 5 polled support TSA’s use of AIT.” (more)

A drug-addicted burglar who used stolen mobile phones to send lewd pictures has been sentenced to six years and two months jail. (more)

Following the ABC news division cutbacks, David Westin is taking one last journey before he departs as news president at year’s end — with Diane Sawyer on her three-day trip to China to report on the country’s economic growth, returning Wednesday. (more)

ABC News has learned exclusively that Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, will not challenge Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for majority whip and has instead decided to run for reelection as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. (more)

On Election Night, ABC News grabbed headlines by hiring (and later dismissing) conservative Andrew Breitbart, MSNBC stacked its Election-Night panel with opinion hosts, and CNN was busy trying to find chairs for all of its 24— yes, 24!— in-studio experts. Meanwhile, Fox’s more low-key newscast garnered the biggest ratings of the night, and praise for its balance. (more)

ABC News has officially and completely dropped conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart from the network’s online news coverage. ABC News flew Breitbart to Phoenix last night, but network executives did not tell him they were dropping him until it was too late for him to get picked up by another network. (more)

Facebook has made enormous inroads into the American political process, and for election night, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg and David Muir of ABC News will be broadcasting from an ABC/Facebook town hall at Arizona State University. (more)

The knives are out for Christiane Amanpour at ABC News’ DC bureau. Since the ex-CNN war correspondent began anchoring “This Week” in August, she’s upset some co-workers by being a “distant outsider,” sources said. (more)

When you’re President of the United States, you can lose a vote, you can lose popular support, and you can lose a round of golf. But you’re never, ever supposed to lose the biscuit. (more)

A confessed burglar said he “lost control” while beating Dr. William Petit with a bat before going on to murder Petit’s wife and two daughters and admitted he started to “enjoy it,” according to his journal entries read in court today. (more)

Authorities looking for a disabled N.C. girl searched a wood chipper and mulch piles overnight in perhaps a dismal sign of the case’s shift since it was declared a murder investigation Tuesday. (more)

U.S. mortgage rates reached new record lows in the latest week as economic data raised the appeal of safe-haven government debt, according to a survey released on Thursday by Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company. (more)

Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack of economic progress, deeply dissatisfied with the federal government and critical of President Obama’s leadership. (more)

For the first time since the end of her father’s 2008 presidential bid, Meghan McCain, Sen. John McCain’s daughter, spoke out about Sarah Palin, writing in a new book that Palin brought “drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty” to the losing campaign. (more)

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend. (more)