Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell endorses Sen. Barack Obama.  Powell breaks his recent silence and shares his reasons for crossing party lines. 

U.S. News & World Report's Kimberly Palmer says there are some smart steps women can take to bridge the retirement savings gap.

It was a star studded event  for celebrities that attended the BET Hip Hop awards in Atlanta Saturday night.

I spent $10.33 and saved $102.00. The means I bought about $113.00 worth of groceries for a few dollars. How did I do that?

David Alan Grier talks to TODAY hosts about his new Comedy Central show “Chocolate News.”

Toronto Raptors star forward Chris Bosh keeps his fans laughing with online video comedy skits

Marvez says this latest suspension should come as no surprise...

Watch what you are buying your kids. That's the warning to parents from a well-known group of citizen crime fighters.

Dennis Edwards reports the Guardian Angels are putting a new twist on the old saying, buyer beware. That's because the clothes your kids wear could be associated with gangs.

A group of young Fort Worth football players have found themselves kicked off their league due to adult fighting.

With the economic crisis center stage, Barack Obama has solidified his lead, pulling ahead of John McCain by 10 points among likely voters, 53-43 percent, in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll.   But the question remains: Is that margin enough?  "We've seen these types of leads disappear at election time," said Michael Dawson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

A new system measuring radio audiences has some Black and Latino radio stations in a panic, wondering whether the change will mean the death knell for them.

A hike in the starting pay for NYPD recruits, coupled with the nation's economic meltdown, means a bumper crop of wanna-be cops, police brass and the recruits themselves said.

With the high price of gas and gas shortages, more people are riding a bicycle to work or to run errands. But that raises some prickly issues for our community.

They say the doors of the church are always open, but Sunday guests were greeted with a racial slur. The "N" word was spray painted on the doors of a new church in Ovilla. A couple in the neighborhood bought the property and say when they turned the home into a church that's when the battle began.

One day after the former head of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) stepped down, the organization names an interim president and chief executive officer, and industry leaders weigh in.  It's the closing of a controversial chapter after Rex Johnson admitted to -- and apologized for -- sending sexist, racist, and pornographic e-mails from his work computer several months ago.

State Senator Derrick Shepherd pled guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and agreed to cooperate with the investigation in federal court Friday.

Two South Carolina girls are making their mark on the football field for their high school. CNN's Brooke Baldwin reports.

ABC correspondents report from around the world on the financial crisis.

A.B. Stoddard with The Hill newspaper talks about the recent statement by Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) calling out the McCain camp for "sowing the seeds of hatred."

A custody battle is brewing over 25 "service dogs in training" in the Phoenix area.

The future service animals are owned by the Eye Dog Foundation for the Blind, a California-based non-profit group that operates a training center in Phoenix.

But a large group of volunteers, foster families that agreed to help raise the dogs, are refusing to return them.

An Influential Figure From Behind The Scenes Come Forth To Explain The Panic Of 2008.  Perspectives on what's really going on in the market, with Peter Fisher, BlackRock and CNBC's Steve Liesman

Repeatedly, opponents to the federal prison have staked signs in front of the proposed site on the north loop. Repeatedly they've been taken down. Now opponents are hoping their remarks before the commission are of a more permanent nature.

Rep. Michele Bachmann is facing increasing heat for repeated statements tying the banking crisis to a 30-year-old law that addressed the racist practice of redlining by lenders. Her statements led to sharp criticism from fellow Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and her political opponents, and resulted in Bachmann’s being forced to defend her statements as non-racist.

Voters are expected to turn out in record numbers for the November 4th election. In fact, according to the Associated Press, more than 3.5 million new voters have registered.