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Fox News Hit With 3 More Sex- and Race-Discrimination Suits

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One complaint alleges “rampant sexual harassment.”

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Scandal-plagued Fox News on Monday was slapped with three additional lawsuits alleging sexual and racial discrimination at the cable-news network. The latest claims came from employees in Fox’s accounting and radio departments. Two of the allegations involve female employees alleging they were fired almost immediately after informing a supervisor of their pregnancies (with some “racial discrimination” thrown in); and the other claim mentions “unrelenting sexual harassment” at the hands of a co-worker who at one point threatened her against making a claim with Fox’s human-relations department. Fox News blasted all three lawsuits as “without legal basis.”

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