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[0] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[1] It's Monday, April 24th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Primetime host Tucker Carlson is out effective immediately at Fox News.
[3] The network announced his departure Monday morning in a press release, stating that his last show was last Friday.
[4] This comes on the heels of the network also parting ways with another popular personality, Dan Bongino.
[5] Carlson was by far the top cable news host, drawing nearly three.
[6] point five million viewers per night.
[7] His exit follows Fox News settling a $787 million lawsuit with Dominion over 2020 election claims.
[8] Fox News host Harris Faulkner made the announcement on air on Monday.
[9] Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have mutually agreed to part ways.
[10] Tucker's last show was this past Friday.
[11] And starting tonight, Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 p .m. Eastern.
[12] It will be an interim show with rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named.
[13] In other media news, Don Lemon is also now out at CNN.
[14] In a tweet Monday, the morning show anchor said, quote, after 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.
[15] Lemon went on to say, quote, it is clear that there are some larger issues at play.
[16] Lemon says he was informed of his termination by his agent.
[17] In response, the network released a statement saying that his comments were inaccurate and that Lemon was offered an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released a statement on Twitter.
[18] The United States has begun facilitating the departure of private U .S. citizens in Sudan who want to leave.
[19] According to White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the U .S. has placed intelligence assets over the land evacuation route to help facilitate safe travel by land from Khartoum to the port of Sudan.
[20] Here's Sullivan in today's White House press briefing.
[21] This happens from time to time, and if you look back over the course of months and years, you see military -assisted departures from embassies.
[22] You see, in some cases, non -combatant evacuation operations.
[23] Charges were announced yesterday in the case of two Chicago teens who allegedly crashed a stolen vehicle into another car, killing a six -month -old baby.
[24] The alleged car thieves, who were 14 and 17 years old, slammed into the vehicle after blowing through an intersection.
[25] In addition to the death of the child, three passengers, aged 34, 17, and 7 years old, were treated at a nearby hospital.
[26] The teens responsible received only misdemeanor charges.
[27] A relative of the family had this to say about the charges.
[28] There's nothing that's going to bring us peace and joy.
[29] We can have all these people arrested.
[30] We can try, and it helps a little bit, but nothing to us will bring us justice, because at the end of the day, they stole a car and they stole our entire lives.
[31] in that one instance.
[32] President Biden, welcome to the White House today, the three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion for their role in gun control protest on the State House floor.
[33] The State House protest took place days after the shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville where three children and three adults were killed.
[34] The three lawmakers, representatives Justin Pearson, Justin Jones, and Gloria Johnson, approached the front of the House chamber with a bullhorn as protesters filled the galleries.
[35] And Anheiser -Busch has placed another top marketing executive on leave after Bud Light ignited controversy over its decision to partner with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a paid marketing engagement.
[36] Daily Wire Senior Editor Joel Needler has more.
[37] Daniel Blake, who is in charge of marketing for the company's mainstream brands, has been placed on leave following the Mulvaney incident.
[38] Blake is the boss of Bud Light Vice President of Marketing Alyssa Heinershide, who was also placed on leave last week.
[39] After the controversy erupted with Mulvaney, video surfaced of remarks that Heinershide made during a recent podcast in which she said she had a mandate to move the brand toward more inclusivity.
[40] Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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