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MSNBC's Ed Schultz is off the air for more than a week after calling a fellow talk-show host a vulgar term.

Mark Haines, co-anchor of CNBC's morning "Squawk on the Street" show and one of the business news network's most recognized faces, died unexpectedly on Tuesday evening, the network said. He was 65.

Burt Reinhardt, a television pioneer who helped lead the evolution of 24-hour news coverage as president of CNN, died Tuesday at 91, according to family members.

Fox News Channel has terminated the contracts of paid contributors and potential 2012 candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, a spokesman for the network confirmed to CNN. Contracts for the former House Speaker and former Pennsylvania senator were suspended until May 1 while they considered runs for the White House in 2012. Santorum, who will appear in Thursday's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, has since formed a presidential exploratory committee....

Talk show host Piers Morgan has announced that Beyoncé will debut her version of "God Bless the USA" on his show tonight at 9 pm ET on CNN Beyoncé is releasing the song as a single to raise money for the New York...

Cable network Current TV says Keith Olbermann will return to the air on June 20.

This was on Foxnews.com. It gets really funny towards to middle/end. I snagged it before they took it down. This is what happens when you try to be partisan...you start mixing up your lies.

The New York Times' David Carr reports that executives at Fox News are "contemplating life without" Glenn Beck after his contract with the network expires in December.If Beck's contract were not renewed, he would leave a network whose power boosted his profile and his reach significantly over the past two years.

CNN's prime-time talk show "Parker/Spitzer" is no more with the departure of Kathleen Parker. Her partner, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, will remain in the time slot in a new show called "In the Arena," working with E.D. Hill, Will Cain and others.

Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday....