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Bob Beckel, the former Fox News Channel host and longtime political operative who ran Democrat Walter Mondale’s unsuccessful 1984 presidential campaign, died Monday. He was 73. A cause of death was not specified. His death was revealed by old friend Cal Thomas on social media. FNC’s Sean Hannity also announced “dear…

(UPDATED with Fox News & Ed Henry attorney statements on lawsuit) Tucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a short vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of…

“We should also point out to the ghouls that are beating their chest in triumph at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson tonight on his top-rated primetime show after one of his top writers was exposed for frequently posting racist, sexist…

Megyn Kelly, Juliet Huddy, Rudi Bakhtiar and Julie Zann – the former Fox News journalists whose sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes and other men at the company form the basis of the movie Bombshell – have released a little bombshell of their own: A 30-minute video in which they, along with Kelly’s husband…

In Jay Roach’s telling of Fox News boss Roger Ailes’ downfall by the women he harassed at the network, there’s a great pace in Bombshell, which organically makes this drama feel like a thriller. When Bombshell editor Jon Poll first read the screenplay, he did so in the mindset of Roach’s style, specifically, the…

Former Fox newscaster Gretchen Carlson today renewed her call for Fox to lift its non-disclosure agreements for employees. Carlson voiced her complaints in an editorial in The New York Times. It arrives as the film Bombshell hits theaters tomorrow, dramatizing the efforts of women (including Carlson) to expose…

Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky and Diana Falzone, each of whom sued Fox News Channel and/or Roger Ailes with accusations of sexual harassment, retaliation or discrimination, have launched a nationwide effort to end the mandatory use of non-disclosure agreements. Lift Our Voices will seek to end NDAs, confidentiality…

John Lithgow has always been hungry for a challenge, playing a plethora of roles, from aliens to priests, to sitcom dads, murderers, millionaires, scientists, and schizophrenics. "I can walk down one block and people will recognize me for 10 different things," he laughs at a bustling lunch spot in North Hollywood…

When Charlize Theron — the driving force as producer and star of Bombshell — sought a director to capture the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist Fox News culture fostered by creator Roger Ailes, the easy choice would have been a woman. Instead, she chose Jay Roach, helmer of the Austin Powers and Meet the Pa…

Laura Luhn plans to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of her defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its CEO, Suzanne Scott. Luhn, an ex-employee of the news network, had challenged statements that Scott had made in an April 3 profile in which she denied knowledge of her predecessor Roger Ailes’ acts of sexual…

“You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop,” the new woman at Fox News Channel is told. “The world is a bad place, people are lazy morons, minorities are criminals, sex is sick but interesting. Ask yourself, ‘What would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather?’ — and that’s a Fox story.” Here is…

Bombshell lives up to its title, and then some, and the explosive story of the scandal in which a group of women brought down Fox News founder and ruler Roger Ailes entered the Oscar race in a big way Sunday. Stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph…