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CNN Host Morning Host John Roberts Expected To Join Fox News
From CBS to CNN to Fox News mediaite CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join FOX News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning . Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will shore ...

Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts
Veteran CNN and CBS reporter and anchorman John Roberts is joining Fox News Channel. The network announced Monday that Roberts was joining the network as a senior national correspondent. Roberts was most recently a host of CNN's "American Morning," but he was bumped from that job when the network announced a reorganization last month. He had been discussing a transfer to Atlanta, home base for his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips. Roberts spent 14 years with CBS, working as a White House corres...

Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran CNN and CBS reporter and anchorman John Roberts is joining Fox News Channel. The network announced Monday that Roberts was joining the network as a senior national correspondent. Roberts was most recently a host of CNN’s “American Morning,” but he was bumped from that job when the network announced a reorganization last month. He had been discussing a transfer to Atlanta, home base for his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips. Roberts spent 14 years w...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts
Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts What’s next? Is Fox News going to go after Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann from MSNBC? Newsbusters reports that for whatever reason Fox News hired he former CNN hack John Roberts, who was the anchor CNN’s American Morning from April 2007 until the end of 2010. Apparently, Roberts will be joining Fox News as a national correspondent. Newbusters also reports on John Roberts reputation for liberal bias. You may remember ...

Breaking: CNNs John Roberts Is Expected To Join FOX News Channel
CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join Fox News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning. Roberts left that show, and CNN altogether, amid major changes at American Morning. Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a c...

Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source
The Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82%...

John Roberts to Swear in John Boehner's Aides
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in aides to incoming John Boehner on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. (Credit: AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to incoming John Boehner aides on Tuesday, Politico reports, in a move seemingly designed to emphasize the imminent speaker's commitment to constitutional reverence. According to Politico, incoming House Speaker Boehner specifically requested that Roberts preside over the ceremony, wh...

Chief Justice John Roberts Swears in Boehner's staff
ABC's Ariane de Vogue reports: Behind closed doors Chief Justice John Roberts swore in members of speaker designate John A. Boehner’s staff this morning during a private ceremony. The Constitution requires all federal employees to take an oath to support the Constitution, but it’s not every day the oath is administered by the Chief Justice of the United States. Boehner invited Roberts to appear, and the speaker designee’s spokesman believes it could be the first time staff was sworn

John Roberts To Fox News
CNN host John Roberts is expected to join Fox News as a senior national correspondent, according to TVNewser. Roberts, who is engaged to CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, recently left the New York-based "American Morning" to move to Atlanta with Phillips, who is pregnant with twins. He will be based in Atlanta and "will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network," according to the TVNewser report. Roberts, a former Canadian TV and radio host, spent 14 years with CBS News...

On history's stage: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
In January 1993 principal deputy U.S. Solicitor General John Roberts Jr. was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The Prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claimed that being subjected to so much Secondhand Smoke amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of his Eighth Amendment Constitutional Rights. The United States, represented by Roberts, was siding with Nevada in arguing that the ...

CNNs Roberts expected to join Fox News
John Roberts will be an Atlanta-based senior national correspondent and report on major domestic and international stories for Fox News, reports Colby Hall. “Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will shore up the news side of FNC’s news programming,” he writes. Help! for Writers Offline for a few weeks? Catch up on the headlines you missed over the holidays Offline for a few weeks? Catch up on the headlines you missed over t...

Justice Roberts swears in Boehner's staff
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker-designate John Boehner's staff was sworn in Tuesday by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, a congressional aide said. The aide said Boehner, an Ohio Republican, asked Roberts to perform the ceremony and also attended the swearing-in, CNN reported. "As Boehner said on election night, this isn't a time for celebration; it's a time for focus, commitment and tough choices. The challenges that lie ahead for our nation demand a serious approach," the aide to...

Gas bag Bill OReilly to Mary Katharine Ham: as a conservative, youre ok with people dying
Gas bag Bill O’Reilly to Mary Katharine Ham: ‘as a conservative, you’re ok with people dying” It’s a new year for the gas bag Bill O’Reilly, but it’s the same arrogant, snotty, attacking of Conservatives and sucking up to progressive Liberal Democrats.  The start of the show debuted some new music, after O’Reilly’s two week Vacation. The first interview was with Congressman Peter King of New York, a Republican. O’Reilly was his usual arrogan

Ex-Enterprise Sailor Defends Videos, Captain
Former Petty Officer Phillip Ciesla, who was a crew member on the USS Enterprise when Controversial videos by Capt. Owen Honors were first shown, defended the videos and the captain on "The Early Show," Tuesday, January 4, 2011. (CBS) The Navy is investigating racy videos made by high-ranking naval officer Capt. Owen Honors, current commander of the USS Enterprise. Bob Orr reports on the growing Controversy. CBS News Justice Correspondent Bob Orr has the latest on the fallout facing the Navy an...

CBS News Bill Plante: GOP Ready to Pounce on President Obama Video 1/4/11
Here is video of CBS News Reporter Bill Plante this morning saying that President Obama is returning to a very different Washington, D.C. - one where the GOP is “ready to pounce” on him. Plante is referring to plans by the new GOP House to vote for Repeal of ObamaCare on Wednesday, January 12. ...

Exposing the NYC Sanitation Workers
Hot Air has this video from the local CBS News reporting on Sanitation workers not plowing streets.The question is - what will and can be done to individual bosses? Does any one have confidence that Mayor Bloomberg is willing to mix it up with a union and hold tough? Perhaps a political appointee might lose his job and maybe those individuals caught on tape, but don't expect any strong action. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz ...

Flashback: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
On history's stage: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. January 3, 2011 5:00 am As the youngest leader of the High Court in two centuries, he has the energy, the intellect, and the votes to reshape our world. By Roger Parloff, senior editor In January 1993 principal deputy U.S. Solicitor General John Roberts Jr. was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The Prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claime...

Senator John McCain's Born Identity
Note: First an appearance on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word on this topic, below my weekly column at AJE What does he want? Revenge. For what? Being born. This is the way famous gunslinger Doc Holliday answers equally famous lawman and good friend Wyatt Earp's inquiry - in their depiction in the movie Tombstone - into why their sworn enemy, Johnny Ringo, is such a misanthrope. Sadly, this description would be equally accurate in explaining the actions of another Arizona transplant fille...

Ambulance That Carried JFK's Body Up for Auction
Like this Story? Share it: U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy get into the Navy ambulance which carries the body of slain President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, on Nov. 22, 1963 at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, D.C. After Air Force One landed, the body of President Kennedy was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an immediate Autopsy. (AFP/Getty) Learn more about the powerful family's political successes and personal misfortunes. (CBS) Those interested in ownin...

Right Wing Blog: Fox News Didn't Narc On 'Terror Grandma,' We Did!
A right-wing blog that tracks networks of Islamic Extremists online says it was them, not Fox News, that brought a video of a woman the network later labeled "Terror Grandma" to the attention of authorities. "FOX did not drop the dime, we did," writes blogger Howie on the Jawa Report. "Given the quick death of the video and its nature, which Ill elaborate on more later, we sent it along through the proper channels. Just to be sure." TPM was unable to independently verify Howie's claims. "Would...

Nazi-era Cemetery for Mentally Ill to be Dug Up
Source: CBS News Jan. 4, 2011 Nazi-era Cemetery for Mentally Ill to be Dug Up The Remains of People Systematically Killed in Austrian Mental Hospital by Nazis to be Exhumed for Construction Project (AP) VIENNA - A disused hospital cemetery will be dug up in March in the search for Victims methodically killed by the Nazis because of physical or mental disabilities, officials said Tuesday. The cemetery in the western Austrian town of Hall contains the remains of 220 people. Officials at the hosp...

National debt greater than $14 trillion
Published: Jan. 4, 2011 at 9:31 AM Austan Goolsbee, White House economic adviser, listens to President Barack Obama speak in Washington Sept.. 10, 2010. UPI/Andrew Harrer/Pool WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Treasury reported Tuesday the National Debt -- as of the last day of 2010 -- topped $14 Trillion. The deb increased from $13 trillion on June 1 to $14.02 trillion Dec. 31, CBS News reported. The increase means the Debt is approaching the statutory ceiling of $14.294 trillion set by Cong...

Dunkin Donuts Offers Free Coffee to Blood Donors: What's the Catch?
(istockphoto) (CBS) If old-fashioned altruism doesn't get you to donate blood, maybe free coffee will. At least that's the idea behind the fourth annual "Give a Pint, Get a Pound" campaign put together by Dunkin Donuts and the American Red Cross. Throughout the month of January - National Blood Donor Month - the campaign entitles blood Donors to a coupon that can be redeemed for a pound of coffee at a Dunkin Donuts restaurant. What's the catch? The campaign is in effect in only seven states: ...