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Top rated Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson announced a “long planned” trout fishing vacation Monday night after a senior writer on his show, Blake Neff, resigned in disgrace, after racist and sexist comments he posted anonymously online were exposed by CNN late last week.Carlson said Brian Kilmeade would be filling in the next four nights and that taped segments would be shown. Carlson held out the possibility of returning sooner “if something dramatic happens”. Carlson addressed the resignation of Neff and his own vacation plans in separate segments on Monday’s show. Here's how @TuckerCarlson addressed his former top...

Out of Twitter’s 2,910 U.S. employees, only 49 (1.7 percent) are black, and that fact has black activists led by Rev. Jesse Jackson racing to condemn the company. Jackson, who has been pressuring tech companies for years to hire more blacks, told The Guardian black Americans are “becoming intolerant” of Twitter’s slow growth in diversity.