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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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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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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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New York Times:
Live Updates: Fox News Parts Ways With Tucker Carlson — Mr. Carlson has been one of the network's top-rated hosts for many years. — Here is the latest on Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News. — Fox News said Monday that it was parting ways with Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime time host.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News — Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network's highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday. — The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit …
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Tucker Carlson has left Fox News — Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, the network that made him a right-wing political and media juggernaut. — Carlson's executive producer Justin Wells is also out at the network, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News … - A slew of material was uncovered during pre-trial discovery implicated Carlson. … - A former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who is suing the network for allegedly trying to manipulate her testimony during pre-trial discovery for the Dominion case …
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
‘It Was a Firing’: Tucker Carlson's Exit from Fox Was NOT Voluntary, Sources Say — Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News was not voluntary, multiple sources told Mediaite. — Fox News shocked the media world Monday morning with a statement announcing the network and its top-rated host “have agreed to part 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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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson OUT at Fox News in Shocking Ouster — Tucker Carlson, the top-rated host at Fox News, is exiting the network. — The abrupt departure of the controversial prime time figure comes a week after Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine Racist
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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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Nicholas Carlson / Insider:
Top Kremlin propagandist tells Tucker Carlson he should run for president and ‘You are always welcome in Russia and Moscow’
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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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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson's departure is great news for America (and terrible news for Fox)
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Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Dance on Tucker Carlson's Fox Grave, but Fear His Zombie
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Broadcast bloodbath: Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon are out in major media shake-up
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Gideon Rubin / Raw Story:
Russian state outlet RT reaches out to Tucker Carlson
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Tucker Carlson Is Out At Fox News
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News in wake of Dominion defamation settlement
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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.
New York Times:
Don Lemon, CNN Star Anchor, Departs Network Abruptly — 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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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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Sen. Wyden asks billionaire Harlan Crow for list of gifts to Supreme Court Justice Thomas
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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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Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Susan Rice to step down as Biden's domestic policy chief — Rice's departure next month will bring to a close her prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure. — President Joe Biden's domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, is stepping down from her post next month …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
'Donald Trump's army': Prosecutors close seditious conspiracy case against Proud Boys leaders — After a nearly four-month trial, the criminal case against five men who prosecutors say instigated the Jan. 6 insurrection will soon be in the hands of a jury. — Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys …
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Kit O'Connell / The Texas Observer:
Ag Commissioner Sid Miller's New Transphobic Dress Code — Transgender and gender nonconforming employees of the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) received an unwelcome surprise last Monday: a new dress code that continues Governor Greg Abbott's campaign of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression.
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Trump-aligned super PAC bankrolls $6 million ad campaign attacking DeSantis — The expenditures come before DeSantis has even declared his candidacy. — A super PAC supporting former President Donald Trump has already spent more than $6 million on television ads attacking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Robert Greenall / BBC:
China disowns ambassador's remarks questioning Ukrainian independence — China has distanced itself from the remarks of one of its envoys who questioned the sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. — Paris ambassador Lu Shaye's comments last week caused widespread outrage, leading on calls to Beijing to clarify.
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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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