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Rupert Murdoch announced Thursday that he will step down as leader of Fox Corp. and News Corp. The 92-year-old media mogul will be replaced as chairman of News Corp. by his son, Lachlan Murdoch.

Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News didn’t go to trial, but still revealed plenty of what Fox personalities, including Tucker Carlson, had been saying about false 2020 election claims.

Hadley Gamble, a CNBC anchor and international correspondent, accused former NBCUniversal chief executive Jeff Shell of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in a complaint to the media company, her lawyer stated to NBC News on Monday.

The longtime anchor said the news that he was let go came as a shock.

Fox News says it has agreed to part ways with Tucker Carlson, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting. The network said that the popular and controversial primetime host’s last program aired on Friday.

Shell took the top job at the company in 2020.

Pedro, who cleaned slaughterhouse floors, told NBC News and the U.S. government that he was 16 — making his employment there illegal under federal labor laws. NBC News and Noticias Telemundo have since traveled to Guatemala and obtained official documentation showing he is 21.

“We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence,” NPR’s statement said.

National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. Here are eight of them.

The distrust appears to mostly be with national news, as Americans said they had more trust in local news.

“Thank you everyone. Congratulations are in order. That was breaking news,” she said in sharing the personal news.

The column was condemned by public figures including Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who called it “deeply misogynist and just downright awful and horrible.”

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, if passed, would allow news companies to collectively negotiate with social platforms over the terms on which their material appears on their sites.