Bill O'Reilly's Exit From Fox News
The network said its top-rated star will not be returning.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Apr 19, 2017
3 minutes
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Updated at 5:27 p.m. ET
Bill O’Reilly, the pugnacious host of , whose diatribes against political correctness and attacks on those he regarded as “pinheads” enraged his liberal opponents and made Fox News a ratings powerhouse, will not be returning to the network, 21st Century Fox Wednesday. The move came amid an exodus by advertisers following O’Reilly, 67, and the network paid about $13 million to settle claims by five women that he sexually harassed them.
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