SUMMARY: President Trump has long had a complicated relationship with the news media. He tends to seek out reporters he deems friendly, while butting heads with those he accuses of treating him unfairly. As ABC News’ chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl has a close-up view of these dynamics, which he describes in his new book, “Front Row at the Trump Show.” Karl joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
Britain's anti-European Union party made big gains in local elections Friday, taking votes from both the governing Conservatives and main opposition Labor Party and rattling rivals' nerves a year ahead of a British national election.
It's a strong performance for the U.K. Independence Party, which advocates pulling Britain out of the EU and stopping the unfettered right to entry of European citizens.
With three-quarters of results declared Friday from voting for more than 4,000 seats on 161 local authorities, UKIP had almost 140 seats, well over its predicted total of 80.
Labor won the largest share of seats, at least 1,400, gaining more than 230 and making gains particularly in London. Britain's cosmopolitan capital largely defied the UKIP surge.
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives lost almost 200 seats, while government coalition partners the Liberal Democrats lost even more — about a third of the Lib Dem total.
The BBC said that if projected nationwide the result would give UKIP 17 percent of votes, compared to 31 percent for Labor and 29 percent for the Conservatives.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the result meant "we are serious players" in British politics. He said his party was confident it would elect its first lawmakers to Britain's parliament in next year's election.
Cameron acknowledged that UKIP's appeal to voters angry about austerity and worried about immigration had hit home.
"The economy is growing, we are creating jobs, but we have got to work harder and we have got to really deliver on issues that are frustrating people and frustrating me, like welfare reform and immigration and making sure people really benefit from this recovery," Cameron said.
Britons also voted Thursday in European Parliament elections. Polls suggest UKIP could gain the largest share of the vote in the race for Britain's 73 seats in the legislature. Those results will be announced Sunday along with tallies from 27 other EU countries.
Donald Sterling has signed the Los Angeles Clippers over to his wife Shelly, a source close to the team confirmed today to ABC News.
Shelly Sterling, who previously shared ownership of the beleaguered NBA franchise with Donald, is now in talks with the NBA over selling the team, the source said.
ESPN reports that Donald has agreed to allow Shelly to negotiate the sale.
The NBA banned Donald Sterling for life from all league events after an audio tape became public that recorded him uttering racist comments to his assistant, V. Stiviano. He told her not to post photos of herself with black people on Instagram or bring them to his basketball games.
On Monday, ESPN reported that the NBA had charged Sterling with damaging the league with his racist comments and set a hearing for June 3, after which other team owners will vote to decide the future of his ownership of the Clippers.
Sterling initially planned to fight to retain ownership but changed his mind this week, ESPN reported.
More than two decades after the body of a young girl was found inside a cooler, the New York Police Department is seeking help identifying the victim dubbed "Baby Hope."
On Tuesday, the 22nd anniversary of the discovery, police offered a $12,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest and conviction in the unsolved crime.
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Officers put up posters and handed out fliers with sketches of how the victim might have looked.
The cooler was found in Washington Heights, on an embankment off the Henry Hudson Parkway.
The girl was believed to be between 3 and 5 years old. Tests showed she was malnourished and had been sexually abused.
DNA testing has yielded no matches with databases of convicted felons or active missing person cases.
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| The Earth, little blue dot on the right, is seen from Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft, July 19, 2013. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) |
The Cassini spacecraft took a day off from exploring Saturn's rings and weather patterns to snap a photo of Earth. Like Voyager 1 revealed in 1990 when it took a photo of the planet from the edge of the solar system, Earth really does look like a pale blue dot.
Cassini was nearly 900 million miles away when it snapped several photos of Earth. One of its photos marks the first time that the spacecraft was able to see the moon and Earth as two distinct celestial objects.
The event also marked the first time that people were notified that they could be a participant in the photo shoot. NASA encouraged people to take pictures of themselves waving at Saturn.
