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A star reporter who covered Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has been placed on leave after admitting a relationship with a former reporting subject.

Comcast’s streaming service Peacock will see a price increase of $2 this summer.

Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday.

NBC News has reversed its decision to hire former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst after network executives faced a chorus of fierce on-air criticism.

Oprah Winfrey is revealing why she left her nearly decade-long partnership with WeightWatchers.

A go-to spot for local news, politics and culture was suddenly shut down on Friday morning.

WAMU will shut down DCist and refocus on audio-first “multiplatform” stories, management of the public radio station announced Friday. Fifteen employees were laid off, the WAMU union said on Twitter.

More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation are on a 24-hour strike to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages. Chicago Tribune Guild member Caroline Kubzansky says Thursday’s strike includes 76 members of the Chicago Tribune reporting staff, photographers and some editors. The striking...

The return of a struggling newspaper from an investment firm to a local owner would normally be cause for celebration in the troubled news industry. But The Baltimore Sun’s newly announced owner has a very specific political background, and some are concerned about what the 187-year-old publication could become. The new owner is David D. Smith, who is executive chairman...

Fox News has stopped running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell.