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Dean To Step Down as DNC Chair Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who rose to national prominence during a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, will not seek a second term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, clearing the way for a loyalist of President-elect Barack Obama to be named to the soon-to-be vacant post. The news of Dean's departure after a single four-year term in office was first reported by the Huffington Post's Sam Stein and confirmed to The Fix by a Democratic Party source. "At this point he has said that he doesn't intend...

SAN JOSE -- A state appeals court rejected a discrimination suit Wednesday by a white man who was replaced by an African American as a news anchor at Bay Area NBC affiliate KNTV, saying station managers were concerned about his on-the-air style, not his race. Brad Hicks, one of several anchors whose contracts were not renewed in 2003 after NBC brought in new management, said in his suit that he was more qualified than his successor and that KNTV had bowed to pressure to hire more minorities. But the Sixth District Court of Appeal in San Jose, upholding a judge's...