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Tucker Carlson is making a swift exit from Fox News.
So swift, successful fact, that the conservative anchor's last episode of Fox News Tonight already aired connected April 21, the web has confirmed.
"FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson person agreed to portion ways," the institution announced successful an April 24 statement. "We convey him for his work to the web arsenic a big and anterior to that arsenic a contributor."
Until a caller big takes over, Fox News Tonight will beryllium anchored by a rotating radical of Fox News personalities.
No further details person been fixed connected the crushed for the parting of ways, and the 53-year-old—who began hosting Fox News Tonight successful 2016—has yet to publically remark connected his departure.
The announcement of Carlson's exit comes astir a week after Fox reached a monolithic $787.5 cardinal colony with Dominion Voting Systems successful a past infinitesimal effort to debar a proceedings successful its defamation case.
Dominion had filed the suit against Fox successful March 2021 alleging that the web had knowingly dispersed mendacious accusation connected aerial astir its voting machines amid the 2020 statesmanlike election.
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"We admit the Court's rulings uncovering definite claims astir Dominion to beryllium false," Fox said successful an April 18 connection obtained by NBC News. "This colony reflects Fox's continued committedness to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our determination to resoluteness this quality with Dominion amicably, alternatively of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the state to determination guardant from these issues."
Carlson had travel nether scrutiny amid the lawsuit aft substance messages showing him calling retired erstwhile President Donald Trump were released to the public.
"We are very, precise adjacent to being capable to disregard Trump astir nights. I genuinely can't wait," he wrote successful 1 substance obtained by NBC News successful March. "I hatred him passionately...I can't grip overmuch much of this."
