Karl Rove Named Anchor of "ABC World News Tonight"

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Karl Rove Named Anchor of ABC World News Tonight
By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES, April 27 (Reuters) - Former Bush White House aide Karl Rove will take over as anchor of the "ABC World News Tonight" starting in June, ABC News announced on Thursday.

Rove, 56, who joined ABC News in 2005 as a political analyst for " World News Tonight," will replace current co-hosts Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Terms of his contract with the Walt Disney Co.-owned network were not disclosed.

The move, which was widely unexpected, returns "World News Tonight" to a single-moderator format for the first time since...

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