“TV news” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — Less than a month after leaving MSNBC, liberal lightning rod Keith Olbermann said Tuesday he’s headed to Current TV, the public affairs channel launched in 2005 by former Vice President Al Gore. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Early last June, CNN celebrated 25 years of “Larry King Live” with a week of shows whose A-list guests included President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Bill Gates and Lady Gaga. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC’s rules against making political donations after two shows. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obamamania that gripped college campuses two years ago is gone. (more)

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Trailing by double-digits in most polls, Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell went on the offensive Wednesday, attacking Democrat Chris Coons as a career politician with Marxist views who would raise taxes and rubber-stamp Democratic policies. (more)

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — With remarkable speed — and flawless execution — one miner after another climbed into a slender cage deep beneath the Chilean earth, was hoisted through 2,000 feet of rock and saw precious sunlight Wednesday after the longest underground entrapment in human history. (more)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late night talk show host Jay Leno dropped by Sarah Palin’s hometown to help open an Air Force Reserve recruiting office. (more)

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Saturday Night Live has taken another jab at Christine O’Donnell — and the Delaware Senate candidate says the riff on her recent television campaign ad “was really funny.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. plans to make a version of its popular iPhone 4 available through Verizon Wireless by early next year, according to a published report. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager who gave voice to the spunky heroine of Nickelodeon’s “Dora The Explorer” says the network cheated her out of millions of dollars by underpaying her for work on the groundbreaking children’s cartoon series. (more)

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — An 8-year-old girl who was abducted by a stranger while playing outside a Fresno home escaped from her captor Tuesday morning after a driver recognized the suspect’s vehicle and cut it off, police said. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stewart gleefully struck back Monday night at the former CNN host who was fired after calling him a bigot. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s something to think about the next time you pick up a call on your iPhone: the device you’re holding may soon be the signature product of the most valuable company in the world. (more)

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Republican Meg Whitman struggled to steady her campaign for California governor after disclosures about her former housekeeper — an illegal immigrant — threatened to cut into her support among Latinos just weeks before election day. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a pair of town houses less than 10 blocks from where the Supreme Court gave his group a place in legal history, David Bossie is making movies and cutting a path for a new art form: the nonpolitical political ad. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Joaquin Phoenix returned to David Letterman’s “Late Show” on Wednesday to apologize for his wacky appearance last year that turned out to be an elaborate piece of performance art. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Another unfavorable decade-old television clip of tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell has emerged, this time with the Delaware GOP Senate candidate saying she “dabbled in witchcraft.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that allowing tax cuts for the wealthy to expire would be “the responsible thing to do.” (more)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A government-backed proposal to limit Pakistani broadcasters’ terrorism coverage and criticism of the state is causing concern among journalists who fear it will stifle the country’s feisty, flourishing media. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment after a day of bar hopping with a man he’d just met, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. (more)