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After Fox News and her Miss America detour, Gretchen Carlson returns to broadcasting

NEW YORK - When Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes in July 2016, she figured her career was over.

"I thought I would be home for years, crying. Instead, they started an investigation. All these other women came forward. And two weeks later, he was fired," says the former "Fox & Friends" anchor on a warm afternoon in early September. It is nearly three years to the day after she reached a $20-million settlement with 21st Century Fox and received an extraordinary public apology from her former employer - a key milestone in what would eventually become known as the #MeToo movement.

"There is no way I could have known how this story would play out."

By toppling one of the most powerful figures in American media, Carlson sent a message to other survivors - not to mention enterprising journalists - that even

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