A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption

Christopher Emanuel first met his girlfriend in the fall of 2012, when they were both driving forklifts at a warehouse in Trenton, South Carolina. She was one of a handful of women on the job; she was white and he was black. She ignored him at first, and Emanuel saw it as a challenge. It took multiple attempts to get her phone number. He says he “wasn’t lonely, but everybody wants somebody. Nothing wrong with being friends.”

Emanuel, who is now 25, describes himself as a non-discriminatory flirt. He was popular in high school and a state track champion. According to the Aiken High School 2008 yearbook, he was voted “Most Attractive” and “Best Dressed.” Even his former English teacher Francesca Pataro describes him as a “ray of sunshine.” Emanuel says he’s “talked”—euphemistically speaking—with a lot of women: “Black, Puerto Rican, Egyptian, and Vietnamese.” But before he met this girlfriend, he says, he had never seriously dated a white girl.

Earnhardt, Patrick have fences to mend after Kentucky clash

SPARTA, Ky. (AP) The relationship between Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick will need repairing before two of NASCAR's most popular drivers head to this weekend's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. 

A couple of on-track incidents late in Saturday night's race at Kentucky Speedway left both with damaged Chevys, low finishes and a little bad blood between them. Earnhardt's brake problems resulted in his No. 88 car tapping the back of Patrick's No. 10 with about 60 laps remaining, sending her into the outside wall to bring one of a track-record 11 cautions.

Jennie Garth gets married!

Here comes the bride!

Jennie Garth married fiance David Abrams at the actress' ranch in Los Olivos, Calif., Saturday evening, a source close to the couple confirmed to "ET."

Security was tight around the rustic nuptials at Garth's six-acre home in the Santa Ynez Valley, where she filmed her CMT reality show "Jennie Garth: A Little Bit of Country," but there was definitely a sense of fun at the party -- "ET" learned that the happy couples' guests would get to play putt-putt at the wedding. How fun is that?!

China's stock-market crash is just beginning

Since the Shanghai Composite index dropped from a 52-week high around 5,178 on June 12, it’s been downhill all the way.

In just three weeks, stocks listed on mainland China’s most prominent exchange tumbled 30% from their seven-year highs. The even more speculative ChiNext Index has lost 42% of its value over 21 days.

Malala turns 18, says world failing Syrian children

Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday Sunday on the Syrian border.

As she became an adult, the teenager, who was shot by militants in her native Pakistan for campaigning for girls' rights, opened a school for more than 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Conflicting reports given about status of Iranian nuclear negotiations

VIENNA — A potential breakthrough was reported in the Iranian nuclear talks, although diplomats indicated that it is premature to say a historic deal has been finalized.