Fox News anchor Shepard Smith abruptly steps down

Longtime Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, one of the network’s primary hard-news voices and a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s ire, abruptly left the cable news channel on Friday.Smith, 55, who had been with Fox since its inception in 1996, hosted his daily show at 3 p.m. Eastern for the last time. “Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and begin a new chapter,” he said in a statement. “After requesting that I stay, they