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Fox News ends contract with Sarah Palin

Fox News will not renew its contract with Sarah Palin, bringing an end to the former Alaska governor's four-and-a-half year run as a regular contributor, our colleague Mike Allen reports. The two parties "amicably parted ways" on June 1.

The former vice presidential candidate will still make occasional appearances on Fox News and Fox Business (she appeared on Sean Hannity's show just last week). But, per Allen's report, Fox executives felt Palin had lost relevance and that the time difference in Alaska sometimes made her TV appearances difficult.

A poll published last year showed waning interest in Palin's political commentary. Fifty-four percent of voters -- including nearly two-thirds of Democrats, a majority of independents, and nearly four-in-10 Republicans -- said they'd heard enough from Palin and would prefer that she be less outspoken in political debates.

But Palin isn't going away. She still has her show on the Sportsman channel, continues to have a large social media presence, and is heavily involved with politics via the SarahPAC. Allen reports that she will also have a new publishing project out soon.

Read the full report here.

Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.