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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch — Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News. — The network announced the departure of its top-rated and most provocative conservative prime-time host Monday with no explanation. His last show was Friday.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News — The bombastic host received the largest audience on the conservative network. — In a shocking announcement on Monday morning, the Fox News Channel announced that prime-time host Tucker Carlson is leaving the network.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Tucker Carlson Was Blindsided by Fox News Firing — The prime-time star, who was recently negotiating his contract renewal through 2029, learned Monday that his top-rated 8 p.m. show was being taken off the air. — The media world was blindsided by the news that Tucker Carlson and Fox News would be parting ways.
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Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Why Tucker Carlson's Exit From Fox News Looks Like an Execution — The biggest star in cable news didn't get to give a proper goodbye from his prime-time perch. But will Carlson go quietly into the night? — The last time Tucker Carlson texted me, it was about a Twitter rumor that new management at CNN might toss me overboard.
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Rolling Stone:
Fox News Staffers Celebrate Tucker Carlson's Departure: ‘Pure Joy’ — “I fear management will replace him with someone who is just like him, so there probably won't be any real change,” a producer warned of the shocking split — FOX NEWS AND Tucker Carlson have parted ways.
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New York Times:
Tucker Carlson Ouster Is a Surprise in Trump World, Too — The announcement came less than a week after the network agreed to pay $787.5 million in a defamation lawsuit in which Mr. Carlson's show, one of the highest rated on Fox, figured prominently. He was said to be surprised by the move.
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Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson Is Leaving Fox News — Network to rely on rotation of hosts until successor is named for 8 p.m. slot — Fox News parted ways with prime-time host Tucker Carlson, a surprising move that comes after he made disparaging remarks about colleagues at the network that were disclosed during …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's Exit Shows Who's the Real Star at Fox
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Semafor:
Tucker Carlson has left Fox News
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
In a Lawsuit, Tucker Carlson Is Accused of Promoting a Hostile Work Environment
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
‘It Was a Firing’: Tucker Carlson's Exit from Fox Was NOT Voluntary, Sources Say
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Tori Otten / New Republic:
The 10 Most Fascist Things Tucker Carlson Said on Air
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
13 Terrible Things Tucker Carlson Said That DIDN'T Get Him Fired
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
‘The End of Fox News’: MAGA World Reacts to Tucker Carlson's Departure
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass, Tucker Carlson!
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson's ouster is another sign that MAGA is shrinking
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Glenn Beck / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson's ouster “is a suicidal move for Fox”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine Racist
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Broadcast bloodbath: Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon are out in major media shake-up
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump probe: DA urges law enforcement to prep for indictments this summer — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday said she would announce this summer whether former President Donald Trump and his allies would be charged with crimes related to alleged interference in Georgia's 2020 election.
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New York Times:
Don Lemon Ousted From CNN in Move That Left Him ‘Stunned’ — Mr. Lemon, one of the network's most recognizable stars, had been under scrutiny since an uproar over on-air remarks he made about women and aging in February. — Don Lemon is out at CNN. — In an announcement that Mr. Lemon said left him …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy: Carlson would be ‘good addition’ to GOP presidential field
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Trisha Ahmed / Associated Press:
North Dakota governor signs 6-week abortion ban into law — North Dakota's Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed an abortion ban at six weeks of pregnancy — even in cases of rape or incest — into law on Monday. — “This bill clarifies and refines existing state law …
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Ava Sasani / New York Times:
North Dakota Governor Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban
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New York Times:
Trump Endorsed by Senator Daines of Montana, a Key Republican Fund-Raiser — Steve Daines of Montana, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, cited the former president's accomplishments on issues like immigration. — Former President Donald J. Trump has secured …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Clarence Thomas's Billionaire Friend Did Have Business Before the Supreme Court — Justice Clarence Thomas said he was advised he didn't have to disclose private jet flights and luxury vacations paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow because, although a close friend, Crow “did not have business before the court.”
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Rupert Murdoch's Management Grows Erratic — Tucker Carlson's abrupt firing is a tectonic moment in American media and a crisis for the far right. — But it's also the latest in a series of abrupt, erratic decisions that have left 92-year-old, Rupert Murdoch's media empire …
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Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety — Joseph Ladapo defended the move, saying revisions are a normal part of assessing such analysis. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo personally altered a state-driven study …
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Associated Press:
Kentucky sheriff's office hires former officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor — About a dozen people showed up in downtown Carrolton Monday morning to protest Myles Cosgrove's hiring. They held signs and chanted “Cosgrove has got to go.” — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The former Louisville police officer …
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Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Ex-Louisville Officer Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Begins New Law Enforcement Job
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James Downie / MSNBC:
Kevin McCarthy's clown car is headed right into a debt ceiling crisis — The House speaker's tenure has been a kaleidoscope of incompetence. — The clown car that has been Rep. Kevin McCarthy's speakership spluttered to a halting start over 15 long ballots in January and hasn't had a second of a smooth ride since.
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
McCarthy's Gamble and Treasury's Cash Shape Debt-Ceiling Fight
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Washington Post:
Biden team plans television ads after Tuesday reelection announcement — He has selected political veterans Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Quentin Fulks to run his campaign operation — President Biden will buy television ad time later this week to push his re election message after announcing …
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Trump let trans beauty queen compete in Miss Universe, in a potential 2024 GOP primary liability — Trump overturned rules at his own Miss Universe organization to allow transgender contestant in 2012 — Before declaring Sunday that “God created two genders, male and female,” …
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New York Times:
The College Board Will Change Its A.P. African American Studies Course — The course had run into criticism from scholars, who accused the board of omitting key concepts and bending to political pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis. — The College Board said on Monday that it would revise …
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Schumer announces Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week — The latest vote comes 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress. — The Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week — 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress …
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